My husband is soon to be deployed to Iraq for 18 months and we were wondering if his world phone (LG from Cingular) would work over there? Do Cingular phones get service at all there?
Any info is appreciated!
2007-03-07 14:28:56 · 14 answers · asked by beccalynn14bb 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
yes, I will send you the website for the sims card!
http://www.telestial.com/
http://www.rangeroamer.com/microsites/sims/how-it-works.aspx?src=adw&gclid=CJG879Sf5IoCFRtGgQodxlwRvw
I have used both services....get the sims card 1-2 week before, they will mail it to you....you will have enought time on it to start and activate it there! read all instructions very carefully!
need a worldphone....but you already know this....the best for you and your family!
2007-03-07 14:32:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband bought an Iraqi cell phone with prepaid minutes last time he was in Iraq. (Even that phone didn't get service in many parts of the country.) He could call me, and then whenever his minutes ran out I just called him. I had Vonage service and it cost about 35 cents a minute. I had to call once from my Cingular cell phone, and it cost $5 for less than 2 minutes. I'm not sure whether a Cingular phone would work over there (my thoughts are probably not), but their international rates are ridiculous. There are definitely cheaper ways to stay in touch.
If your husband is not in an area where he can get an Iraqi cell phone, there are always MWR phones on the base. If he has access to SPAWAR phones, those are about 4 cents a minute to the US, by FAR the cheapest way to call. Search SPAWAR online and he can buy the minutes online. Don't buy them until he knows he has access to those phones though, because the minutes only work at the SPAWAR cafes. You can also purchase international phone cards from AAFES to send him, or he can buy them at the PX there. Those phone cards have the best rates (next to SPAWAR) when calling from Iraq to the US.
2007-03-08 02:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My coworker couldn't get his Cingular phone to work, but maybe that was just him.
He and I both purchased Iraqna cell phones. We can get them here for about $85 and then you purchase minutes as you need them. $30 worth of minutes generally give you about an hour of talk time. We also got a calling card plan for family in the states; to call my cell it costs $0.17 a min.
2007-03-07 15:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know but if you can figure it out.. and figure out how we can do this I would love to donate 3500 minutes to you and your husband.. No this is NO Joke If you can find a way email me and we will work it out
Proud to serve
SSG Pat Hinsley, USAR, Retired
Desert Storm Veteran
I talked to a cingular rep and the said no maybe since I have a real person there is a way. I really want to do this. I know the cost.of talking to love ones 6 months in Saudi
2007-03-07 15:17:29 · answer #4 · answered by path2631 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son is there now. No cell phones are allowed. They were confiscated before his unit ever left the United States. They do have communications centers and you can get rates at $.04 per minute from Spawar.com However, you need to first see where he's stationed and what types of phones he'll have access to. The spawar minutes only work on spawar phones.
2007-03-07 18:35:21 · answer #5 · answered by Amy S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know about cingular, try an Iridium from motorola, its a sat phone and costs around a thousand dollars, im not sure of the rates though, around a dollar a minute i think, but you can get the guys to pitch in on one together and split the bills out every month, thats what some of our guys did. I f not, tell him to make friends with his commo sergeant, hell hook him up with one over there for free.
2007-03-07 14:36:41 · answer #6 · answered by sofmatty 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you would have to either pay outrages overseas rates or have the phone unlocked through cingular and purchase a sim card in iraq
2007-03-07 14:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by Jellybean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only way you need to use a T-cellular sidekick telephone onto Cingular community is to purchase a "liberate sidekick telephone." This liberate means that the utility on the cellular telephone has been replaced so as for you to use that telephone on yet another community otherwise the sidekick can in user-friendly terms be used with T-cellular. examine on ebay for liberate sidekick telephones.
2016-09-30 09:03:21 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about cingular, but if you had verizon service, you could text message your sweetie.
2007-03-07 14:48:14 · answer #9 · answered by idaho69442 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey- My b/f is in iraq and when he got to camp he bought a cell phone/or sim card and calls me useing phone cards.
2007-03-07 15:22:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋