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[shyilguy]

For all the people that are leaving their wives and girlfirends beack home or have left them behind already how are you guys keeping in touch with them other than email. are there certain phone cards for st maartin that can be purchased? i know that some people have incomming phone calls free on their cell phones can someone use vonage from the US to call the cell phone on the island. has anyone tried this if so how rational or economical is this route?

[Whaler]

www.cards4students.com (http://www.cards4students.com)

It's what I use. There have been other posts on vonage/webcams etc. I'm sure the search function would yield some useful info.

[swimguy23]

For all the people that are leaving their wives and girlfirends beack home or have left them behind already how are you guys keeping in touch with them other than email. are there certain phone cards for st maartin that can be purchased? i know that some people have incomming phone calls free on their cell phones can someone use vonage from the US to call the cell phone on the island. has anyone tried this if so how rational or economical is this route?

letters in bottles work wonders.....

i used vonage and when it worked it rocked, but when it didnt it bit big ones.

[stateofequilibrium]

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[FOID]

vonage definately helps. i use that along with yahoo and do video conferencing.

cards4students is great... 20 cents a minute to the us. it's better than telcell which is about 85 cents a min

[shyilguy]

my question was not calling from the island but calling to the island. i have read in previous threads that some of the cell phone come with free incomming min if someone were to call me from the states does that free incomming min still apply.

[Skipper]

hey,

your friend/gf/family can buy a phone card from cards4students.com also and they can call you and it is free for you because incoming calls are free

i think it costs them the same as if you were to use cards4students around 20 cents a minute

also, they can sign up with skype.com and buy some minutes (sold in $10 gives u alot of hours of talk time)--and they can call you via the internet and that is also free for you and like 5 cents a minute for them

they can do a search on google and you can find hundreds of calling cards from the states to the caribbean for good prices per minute--

skipper

[shyilguy]

thankyou for the answer

[FOID]

my question was not calling from the island but calling to the island. i have read in previous threads that some of the cell phone come with free incomming min if someone were to call me from the states does that free incomming min still apply.

most cell phone companies like Tel-Cell or UTS have free incoming minutes. but it cost alot to call out

[microphage]

u can also look at some of those calling cards they sell at corner markets. The rates could be listed under "Netherland Antilles." Some of those calling cards have awesome rates.