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What a calling card
While I was in Egypt, my cellphone provider would have charged me = $1.50 per=20 minute for incoming and outgoing calls. But I had inserted a OneSIMCard = into my=20 BlackBerry (a GSM, or Global System for Mobile communications, phone), = so I=20 received all calls for free and paid just 55 cents per minute to ring = the United=20 States. The OneSIMCard, made by Belmont-based Long Distance POST, works = in all=20 unlocked GSM cellphones and offers significantly cheaper rates than most = cellphone providers. Each card comes with its own unique mobile number, = so you=20 can be reached directly or at a toll-free or Boston number.=20
The OneSIMCard service offers free incoming calls in 54 countries, =
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translators. Buy a card for $39.99 or the card, a GSM phone, and a =
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