{"id":174,"date":"2006-09-12T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2006-09-12T03:01:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T08:01:21","slug":"international-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/174\/international-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"International Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, calling T-Mobile via Skype is an excercise in futility. After 7 calls, I did eventually get their voice prompting system to not immediately kick me out, and got through to a representative, but man, what a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n<p>However, that does mean that international calling should be set up on my phone in the relatively near future. Not that I&#8217;ll use it for anything&#8230; but I can cellstumble with it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>They also apologized for not setting it up when I called to ask about rates.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, once you get to talk to a person, calling T-Mobile has been a very successful experience for me.<\/p>\n<p>Data rates here are 1.5 cents\/kb &#8212; that&#8217;s not nearly as bad as I would have expected, although it&#8217;s too expensive to make it generally useful. (If only the web weren&#8217;t so laden with heavy bandwidth crap. I blame DSL.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, calling T-Mobile via Skype is an excercise in futility. After 7 calls, I did eventually get their voice prompting system to not immediately kick me out, and got through to a representative, but man, what a pain in the ass. However, that does mean that international calling should be set up on my phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foss4g-2006","category-locality-and-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}