I have always wrestled with the problem of staying in touch when traveling overseas and have tried any number of solutions, from prepaid cards that always seemed to run out at the most inconvenient times, to reversing the charges (always expensive), to callback services, to rented mobile phones (also fairly pricey), to relying on cyber cafes for email communication. All of them worked, more or less, but none was ideal. Often, I felt like E.T., trying to reinvent the telecomm wheel just to phone home.

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