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Phone For International Travel
I have never actually posted in this section so here goes!
I recently did a lot of research on the best way to make calls back to the USA while traveling in Europe. I know that many of our phones (if unlocked) will accept a foreign countries sim card and work but wanted a simple foolproof situation where I don't have to spend a lot of time finding sim cards, figuring out how to use them, etc.
I found several companies that sell cell phones for international use very cheaply and then only charge you per minute when you use the phone. No monthly fees ever. You can keep it in your drawer for a year or two then use it again. You keep your phone number forever, etc. These are foreign based phones, in most cases UK.
The only downside is that anyone calling you is calling a UK number so will be making an international call. Not a problem for me since I don't expect any incoming calls unless there is an emergency and only want to be able to check in with family and work a few times.
Here is where it gets interesting! The company that has been around awhile and has good reviews is called Mobal. Their rates are around $1.50 per minute for both incoming and outgoing calls to the USA and they offer cell phones as low as $29. The upstart new company is one called Eurobuzz who offer the same exact services but for only $0.79 per minute. Eurobuzz also offers the same phone as MObal for $29.
Once I discovered Eurobuzz and googled for some customer reviews of it I ordered their phone at almost a 50% savings on the per minute charge.
I received an order confirmation email telling me that from that point on all communication would be administered by Mobal but the rates would be the same as what I signed up for. I am assuming that Eurobuzz must have sold out to MObal but find it interesting that Mobal is running both companies with the same phones and services but with one at almost half the price of the other.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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