Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: How US customers traveling abroad can call their cellular carrier support number toll free Date: 1 Jan 2017 20:56:12 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <58692fcc$0$6150$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net MNvgd7uGQa3hp3sQA2c/AQXIAiS5B77Le0ICdl+dDBXnrC1cqA X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:EUg8nf3pK8XbIxeY/lUtdCNmqdo= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 170101-0, 01/01/2017), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:37139 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:95657 JF Mezei wrote: > On 2017-01-01 06:12, Yanis Bernard wrote: > > If you're from the US and traveling abroad and need to call, toll free, > > your carrier's customer support (611 equivalent) telephone number, these > > numbers (which I looked up just now for another thread) should be useful to > > you. > > > > AT&T is +1-916-843-4685 > > https://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/faq.jsp > > etc. > > Pedantic but important: Those are not toll free numbers. These are > numbers where the carrier will not bill you if the call is made from a > cell phone with an AT&T/carrier SIM card in it. Are these numbers even approriate (i.e. should they be used) when calling a provider from a phone with their own SIM in it? (N.B. I use 'provider', because the provider might not be the carrier.) With my - Dutch and Australian - providers, I just call a short number - like 1200 - which will connect me to my provider's helpdesk. Those calls are free also when roaming (worldwide). [...]