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petkow · 05-04-2010, 11:18

This thing with international SMS being cheaper when roaming is a funny business. (The same is often true of calls as well). I find it so stupid that for example Vodafone Spain charge 69c for an SMS sent to the UK from their own network in Spain, but if you happen to live near the border to Portugal and pick up a mobile phone signal from there then that same message will cost you just 13c!

So in the Netherlands, if you happen to live near the border with Germany or Belgium, it is worth switching over onto a foreign network if you plan on sending lots of international SMS's. I suppose in some areas, you get a choice of 3 countries mobile phone networks. (e.g. Aachen in Germany, or Basel in Switzerland)

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	05-04-2010, 11:18 This thing with international SMS being cheaper when roaming is a funny business. (The same is often true of calls as well). I find it so stupid that for example Vodafone Spain charge 69c for an SMS sent to the UK from their own network in Spain, but if you happen to live near the border to Portugal and pick up a mobile phone signal from there then that same message will cost you just 13c! So in the Netherlands, if you happen to live near the border with Germany or Belgium, it is worth switching over onto a foreign network if you plan on sending lots of international SMS's. I suppose in some areas, you get a choice of 3 countries mobile phone networks. (e.g. Aachen in Germany, or Basel in Switzerland)