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Originally Posted by Schmeen
and where did I say that?...found it yet?...didn't think so....I'd had to be pretty dumb to think that...so lets try reading again shall we??
I said foreign phone cards do not work. That was what the question was about.
I am referring to those cards you can buy in USA and Europe, where you dial a toll free number, and then dial the number out. You cannot dial a toll free number in the USA free of charge to use such a service. The Thai telephone company won't honour that.
Now using the number quoted "001 800 120 664 870" from thailand 001 would get you outside taking you to country 80. The short point being the international access code in Thailand is different to the one in the US and Europe.
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OK without wanting to have the last word
A) by making a statement about sims and then stating that phone cards dont work it is easy to confuse (see
) the reader into infurring that one statement related to the other, phone cards = sim cards. Also by reading seperate posts like this
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foreign phone cards will not work.
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I have no idea about Phone cards, I'm talking about using a Thai SIM
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again makes it sound like you are talking about SIM cards.
B) Dialling 001 800 gets you to the international free phone numbers. This is not a country (80 or 800) at all, as I showed by dialling the number you say wont work it does work. You get access to the zaptel phone network at no line costs here in Thailand.
C) Many many foriegn phone cards DO work, as I stated initially the trick is to find one with a freephone number that works from Thailand. Having an international free phone number or a Thai freephone number is key. Most of the big players in this market do have such numbers. So even in its corrected (or correctly interpreted) way that statement is still untrue. I dont dissagree that it is possible for some small scale cheap USA outbound only service may exist, simply dont use it.
Anyway, he can either sort this out prior to going, get a calling card here, geta SIM here and dial, get a SIM here and dial 007, not bother calling his GF and play with the bar girls and soapies.. As they say Up to you
