How to communicate abroad ?

Written by Romain on Wednesday, 12 of November 2008 at 17:52

Since i’ve started this project, I’m always looking for cheap communication solutions to keep in touch with my friends and family during the long journey.

Of course, I’m a real Skype user, and it allows you to subscribe to an World illimited package for 10,29 € All taxes included per month. Also, Skype is well-known for the ability to talk for free from skype-to-skype accounts.It’s also interesting to notice that it has a powerful SMS service.

How could we survive without (at least) MSN Messenger, Facebook and Google Talk ?

Finally, I recently discovered a a very cool iPhone application called BiteSMS and which allows (like the Skype SMS offer to send short messages quite cheap. SMS are directly sent from a Wifi connection or even a 3G one (I’m thinking about evaluating some costs in a coming post).I tried it and everything worked well. I got 550 credits (which means 550 SMS from France to France) for 30 €. Don’t forget that you have 1 year to use them. But it’s still quite enought, isn’t it ?

One really have to take care of not using to often mobile phones to avoid scary bills..However, some services such as BiteSMS are cool. I hope I won’t have to have such a bad experience..

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