Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cell Phone Roaming/Daily Activation Fee Message-ID: <11024@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 18 Aug 90 04:17:27 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 580, Message 2 of 13 In article <10991@accuvax.nwu.edu> by pbhx@midway.uchicago.edu, the Moderator adds: | [Moderator's Note: If I were going to be in the distant service area | at least a month, I'd opt to have service turned on locally by the | carrier in that area. But the start up fee and service for one month | would probably not save enough over the daily roaming fee to make it | very worthwhile... But we should not forget that the per-minute airtime change will also be (typically) a factor of two higher than service in one's home area, so if you talk for several minutes a day while roaming, it just might be cheaper to turn on local service. Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311