From the AEGIS e-Journal, Volume 5 Number 10, October 2002
International GSM roaming for US business travelers In an attempt to get a feel for what was available to US business travelers, we contacted the corporate communications departments (we felt that this would be more accurate than relying on sometimes-inaccurate web sites) at ÆGIS, October 2002 13 Alltel, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Nextel, Sprint PCS, Suncom, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Alltel and Suncom responded that they have no international roaming. Nextel, and Sprint didn’t respond, which, based on our past experience in these types of things, means that they don’t really actively support international roaming at this time. T-Mobile and Verizon responded affirmatively, complete with international roaming rates. Cingular responded through their PR firm that they have international GSM roaming in 200 countries (the GSM Association lists 182 countries/areas that have GSM), but did not provide countries or rates. The big surprise was AT&T Wireless, which we had always believed had long-existing international GSM roaming agreements in place, and indeed, their website, claims international roaming in 120 countries with the AT&T Wireless WorldConnect® Service. In spite of this, AT&T Wireless responded that they were in the midst of rolling out their international roaming plans, but did not have international roaming in place at this time, so we can, at the time this is written, count them out as being officially a provider of international roaming services. Below find a comparison of international roaming rates within (or receiving calls from the US) for the two international service providers that provided us with rates (as well as the “unofficial” rates for AT&T Wireless): We felt that having the side-by-side comparison would be more useful than merely listing the web sites. We have also included the costs for calls from the US to other countries with two of the prepaid calling services, Big Zoo (http://www.bigzoo.com/) and OneSuite (http://www.onesuite.com/). With these services, you prepay into your account, and then program your access number and PIN into the calling card setting on your handset. For most handsets, the way you use the calling card is to select the number and hold the send button down. The handset will then dial the access number and ask for the PIN, at which point you hit the send button again. It will then ask you for the phone number to be dialed, and you hit the send button again. Is it worth the extra effort? Depends on who you are. In The LUBRINCO Group we use these services both with cell phones and for long distance with our landline phones. On the other hand, in other circumstances we might not care so much about saving the company a few pennies – or even a few dollars – per call. ÆGIS, October 2002 14 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Afghanistan N/A N/A N/A $1.5000 $1.1900 Albania N/A N/A $1.49 $0.3240 $0.2900 American Samoa N/A N/A N/A $0.2740 $0.2700 Andorra N/A $0.99 $1.49 $0.2620 $0.2700 Angola N/A N/A N/A $0.4930 $0.2700 Antigua & Barbuda N/A N/A N/A $0.4500 $0.4000 Argentina Buenos Aires/Mendoza Mobile $2.29 $1.99 N/A $0.1840 0.1950 $0.4240 $0.3000 $0.1950 $0.5200 Armenia N/A N/A $2.49 $0.6790 $0.5800 Aruba N/A N/A N/A $0.3780 $0.4000 Australia Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.0594 $0.3240 $0.0650 $0.3500 Austria Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0690 $0.2940 $0.0600 $0.2900 Azerbaijan N/A $4.99 $2.49 $0.4540 $0.4800 Bahrain N/A $1.49 $1.49 $0.4540 $0.4800 Bangladesh Mobile N/A N/A $1.49 $0.5940 $0.6940 $0.6800 $0.3000 Belarus Mobile $4.99 $4.99 $2.49 $0.3940 $0.3300 $0.3300 Belgium Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0954 $0.4540 $0.0950 $0.2800 Belize N/A N/A N/A $0.5940 $0.6000 Benin N/A N/A N/A N/A $0.6000 Bermuda $1.69 $1.99 N/A $0.2040 $0.2000 Bolivia Mobile $2.29 $2.99 N/A $0.4940 $0.6320 $0.5500 ÆGIS, October 2002 15 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Bosnia Herzegovina N/A N/A $1.49 $0.3940 $0.3200 Botswana N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.3940 $0.3900 Brazil Sao Paulo Mobile $2.29 $2.29 N/A $0.1740 $0.1740 $0.3540 $0.2500 $0.1600 $0.3900 Brunei N/A $1.49 $1.49 N/A $0.3400 Bulgaria Mobile N/A $1.49 $1.49 $0.3440 $0.3830 $0.3500 Burkina Faso N/A N/A N/A $0.6940 $0.6800 Burundi N/A N/A N/A $0.7330 $0.6500 Cambodia Mobile $3.49 $2.99 $1.49 $0.7940 $0.9540 $0.7500 Cameroon N/A N/A N/A $0.6540 $0.6800 Canada Domestic Domestic Domestic $0.0444 $0.0450 Cape Verde N/A N/A $1.49 $0.6540 $0.4900 Central African Republic N/A N/A N/A $0.6940 $0.7800 Chad N/A N/A N/A $1.1980 $0.8200 Chile Mobile $3.49 $1.99 N/A $0.0940 $0.3540 $0.1550 $0.3900 China Bejing/Shanghai Mobile $2.29 $2.99 $1.49 $0.0795 $0.0634 $0.0900 $0.0690 $0.0600 $0.0800 Congo N/A N/A N/A N/A $0.5700 Congo, Democratic Republic of N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Costa Rica Mobile N/A N/A N/A $0.3250 $0.3940 $0.2650 $0.2650 Cote D’Ivoire $3.49 $2.99 $1.49 N/A $0.6600 ÆGIS, October 2002 16 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Croatia Mobile $2.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.2840 $0.4540 $0.3000 Cuba N/A N/A N/A $1.4540 $1.4500 Cyprus N/A $1.49 $1.49 $0.2940 $0.2900 Czech Republic Mobile $2.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1940 $0.3940 $0.2200 Denmark Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0740 $0.2940 $0.0850 $0.2900 Dominican Republic N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.1940 $0.2000 Egypt Mobile $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 $0.5940 $0.6940 $0.5800 El Salvador Mobile N/A $1.99 N/A $0.2940 $0.8500 $0.3050 Equatorial Guinea N/A N/A $1.49 $1.0150 $0.8600 Estonia $1.69 $1.99 $2.49 $0.1940 $0.2500 Ethiopia N/A N/A N/A $1.7800 $2.0000 Faeroe Islands $1.29 N/A $1.49 $0.7500 $0.3100 Fiji N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.8940 $0.7600 Finland Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0954 $0.2900 $0.0950 $0.2900 France Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0444 $0.2900 $0.0450 $0.2900 French Polynesia N/A N/A N/A $1.2500 $0.5200 French Guiana N/A 1.49 N/A $0.4590 $0.4250 French West Indies $2.29 N/A N/A $0.4610 N/A Gabon, Republic of N/A N/A N/A N/A $0.5800 Gambia N/A N/A N/A $0.6500 $0.6000 Georgia $3.49 $2.99 $2.49 $0.6950 $0.6600 Germany $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0444 $0.0450 ÆGIS, October 2002 17 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Mobile $0.3540 $0.2900 Ghana Mobile N/A N/A $1.49 $0.2850 $0.4540 $0.2100 Gibraltar N/A $1.49 $1.49 $0.4460 $0.3800 Greece Athens Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.1290 $0.0980 $0.2500 $0.2100 Greenland N/A N/A $1.49 $0.3470 $0.3200 Grenada N/A N/A N/A $0.6500 $0.4800 Guadeloupe $2.29 $1.49 $1.49 $0.4310 $0.3850 Guam (USA) N/A N/A N/A $0.1140 $0.1050 Guernsey $2.29 $0.99 $1.49 N/A N/A Guinea N/A N/A N/A $0.4340 $0.4300 Hong Kong Mobile $2.29 $1.49 $1.49 $0.0540 $0.0790 $0.0500 $0.0600 Hungary Budapest Mobile $1.69 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1840 $0.1540 $0.2500 $0.2100 Iceland Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1540 $0.2370 $0.1500 India New Delhi Mobile $2.29 $2.99 $1.49 $0.4900 $0.4000 $0.6500 $0.4900 $0.5900 Indonesia Jakarta Mobile $3.49 $4.99 $1.49 $0.2500 $0.0854 $0.2500 $0.2200 $0.0900 Iran N/A N/A N/A $0.6540 $0.6800 Ireland Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0900 $0.2840 $0.1050 $0.2800 Isle Of Man N/A $0.99 $1.49 N/A N/A ÆGIS, October 2002 18 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Israel Mobile $3.29 $2.99 $1.49 $0.1100 $0.2440 $0.1200 $0.2400 Italy Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0690 $0.5900 $0.0650 $0.3500 Jamaica $1.69 $1.49 N/A $0.5540 $0.5700 Japan Mobile N/A N/A N/A $0.0644 $0.2540 $0.0650 $0.2500 Jersey $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 N/A N/A Jordan Mobile $1.69 $1.99 $1.49 $0.6540 $0.8090 $0.6500 Kazakhstan $4.99 $4.99 $2.49 $0.4500 $0.5600 Kenya Nairobi Mobile $3.49 N/A $2.49 $0.5040 $0.7530 $0.5040 $0.7200 Kosovo N/A N/A $1.49 N/A N/A Kuwait Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.6540 $0.6540 $0.6800 Kyrgyz Republic Mobile N/A N/A $2.49 $0.5540 $0.7050 $0.5900 Laos N/A N/A N/A $0.6540 $0.6800 Latvia $2.29 $1.49 $2.49 $0.3540 $0.3500 Lebanon Mobile N/A $2.99 $1.49 $0.4940 $0.5940 $0.5500 Lesotho N/A N/A $1.49 $0.4800 $0.4500 Liberia N/A N/A N/A $0.5550 $0.5200 Libya N/A N/A N/A $0.3780 $0.3500 Liechtenstein $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1870 $0.1800 Lithuania $3.49 $1.49 $2.49 $0.3540 $0.3500 Luxembourg $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1540 $0.1550 ÆGIS, October 2002 19 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Macau N/A $1.49 $1.49 $0.2940 $0.3200 Macedonia N/A N/A $1.49 $0.4990 $0.4600 Madagascar Mobile N/A N/A $1.49 $0.6540 $1.5890 $0.6500 Malawi N/A N/A $1.49 $0.4540 $0.5000 Malaysia Mobile $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 $0.0950 $0.1200 $0.0890 Maldives N/A N/A $1.49 $0.7940 $0.6400 Mali N/A N/A N/A $0.9800 $0.9500 Malta $2.29 $2.99 $1.49 $0.2990 $0.2600 Martinique $2.29 $1.49 $1.49 N/A $0.4200 Mauritania N/A N/A N/A $0.6540 $0.7000 Mauritius $3.49 $1.99 $1.49 $0.8540 $0.8600 Mexico Mexico City Guadalajara & Monterrey $1.49 N/A $0.1490 $0.1190 $0.1600 $0.1300 $0.1400 Micronesia N/A N/A N/A $0.9800 $0.7800 Moldova N/A N/A $2.49 $0.4540 $0.4800 Monaco Mobile 1.29 N/A $1.49 $0.1640 $0.3540 $0.1400 $0.4500 Mongolia N/A N/A $1.49 $1.1160 $0.9600 Montenegro N/A N/A $1.49 $0.3940 N/A Morocco $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 $0.5540 $0.4900 Mozambique N/A N/A $1.49 $0.4940 $0.4700 Myanmar N/A N/A N/A $0.8940 $0.8500 Namibia N/A N/A $1.49 $0.2940 $0.2900 Nepal N/A N/A N/A $0.9780 $0.9900 ÆGIS, October 2002 20 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Netherlands Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0594 $0.4540 $0.0550 $0.3900 Netherlands Antilles N/A N/A N/A $0.3940 $0.4200 New Caledonia N/A N/A N/A $1.8500 $1.4500 New Zealand Mobile $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 $0.0600 $0.2540 $0.0600 $0.2500 Nicaragua Mobile N/A N/A N/A $0.3940 $0.5540 $0.4000 Niger N/A N/A N/A $0.6940 $0.7000 Nigeria N/A N/A N/A $0.5940 $0.5800 Norway Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0650 $0.2940 $0.0600 $0.2500 Oman N/A N/A $1.49 $0.7940 $0.8500 Pakistan Lahore Mobile $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 $0.6940 $0.7200 $0.9940 $0.6800 Palestinian Authority N/A 1.99 $1.49 N/A NA Panama Mobile N/A N/A N/A $0.3940 $0.6690 $0.3000 $0.5500 Papua New Guinea N/A N/A N/A $0.3940 $0.4000 Paraguay Mobile N/A N/A N/A $0.4940 $0.7540 $0.4800 Peru Lima Mobile $3.49 $2.99 N/A $0.2940 $0.1940 $0.4940 $0.3200 $0.2400 Philippines Manila Mobile $2.29 $2.99 $1.49 $0.1490 $0.1600 $0.2940 $0.2400 $0.1900 Poland Krakow Mobile $2.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1740 $0.3920 $0.3540 $0.1500 $0.1500 ÆGIS, October 2002 21 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Portugal Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.1540 $0.3940 $0.1000 $0.3500 Qatar $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 N/A $0.7500 Reunion (La) N/A N/A $1.49 $0.4610 $0.4200 Romania $3.49 $1.99 $1.49 $0.2940 $0.2500 Russia Moscow St. Petersburg Mobile $4.99 $4.99 $2.49 $0.1640 $0.0940 $0.0900 $0.2500 $0.1600 $0.0700 Rwanda N/A N/A N/A $0.9540 $0.9500 San Marino $1.29 N/A $1.49 $0.3940 $0.3200 Sao Tome and Principe N/A N/A N/A $1.2500 $1.0500 Saudi Arabia N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.5540 $0.5800 Senegal N/A N/A $1.49 $0.8940 $0.9500 Seychelles N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.8940 $0.9500 Sierra Leone N/A N/A N/A $1.0170 $0.6800 Singapore Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.0594 $0.0794 $0.0690 Slovakia $1.69 $0.99 $1.49 $0.3440 $0.3400 Slovenia $2.29 $1.49 $1.49 $0.2940 $0.2800 Somalia N/A N/A N/A $1.7500 $1.9500 South Africa Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.2940 $0.5540 $0.3200 South Korea Mobile N/A N/A N/A $0.0630 $0.1990 $0.0590 Spain Barcelona/Madrid Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0594 $0.0684 $0.3540 $0.0590 $0.3500 Sri Lanka $3.49 $2.99 $1.49 $0.6940 $0.6800 ÆGIS, October 2002 22 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE Sudan N/A N/A $1.49 N/A $0.4950 Suriname N/A N/A N/A $0.8940 $2.0000 Swaziland N/A N/A N/A $0.3290 $0.3100 Sweden Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0524 $0.4540 $0.0600 $0.4500 Switzerland Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0694 $0.3940 $0.0650 $0.3500 Syria N/A N/A N/A N/A $0.3500 Taiwan Taipei Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.0655 $0.0544 $0.1540 $0.0660 $0.0500 $0.1500 Tajikistan N/A N/A N/A $0.5690 $1.7500 Tanzania $4.99 N/A $1.49 $0.6640 $0.6400 Thailand Bangkok Mobile $1.69 $1.49 $1.49 $0.2540 $0.0800 $0.2600 $0.2500 $0.0800 Togo N/A N/A $1.49 $0.9960 $0.9500 Tonga N/A N/A N/A $1.6000 $0.9600 Trinidad and Tobago N/A N/A N/A $0.3940 $0.4200 Tunisia N/A N/A $1.49 $0.3940 $0.3600 Turkey Istanbul Mobile $2.29 $1.99 $1.49 $0.2940
$0.3940 $0.3200 $0.1800 Turkmenistan N/A N/A $2.49 $0.7320 $0.6800 Uganda N/A $4.99 $1.49 $0.3540 $0.3500 Ukraine Kiev Mobile $3.49 $2.99 $2.49 $0.3540 $0.6000 $0.3540 $0.3500 United Arab Emirates N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.4240 $0.4200 ÆGIS, October 2002 23 Country AT&T Wireless T-MOBILE VERIZON
BIG ZOO ONESUITE United Kingdom Mobile $1.29 $0.99 $1.49 $0.0454 $0.3500 $0.0400 $0.4000 USA With 800 number With local number Alaska & Hawaii Domestic Domestic Domestic
$0.0390 $0.0290 $0.0390 $0.0290 $0.1000 Uzbekistan N/A N/A $2.49 $0.6940 $0.4500 Vanuatu N/A N/A N/A $3.8900 $3.4000 Vatican City $1.29 N/A $1.49 $0.2150 N/A Venezuela Mobile $2.29 $1.49 N/A $0.3140 $0.4540 $0.3100 Vietnam Mobile $4.99 N/A $1.49 $0.6940 $0.7000 $0.7400 Virgin Islands (USA) N/A N/A N/A $0.1630 $0.2300 Yemen N/A N/A $1.49 $1.8000 $1.6000 Yugoslavia/Serbia N/A $1.49 $1.49 N/A N/A Zambia N/A N/A N/A $0.5940 $0.6000 Zimbabwe N/A $1.99 $1.49 $0.2540 $0.2900 7. Free-Subscription/Unsubscription/Copyright Information •• ÆGIS e-journal is supported and maintained by voluntary efforts. This publication is owned, published, and copyright © 2002 by The LUBRINCO Group Ltd, Inc. and Financial Examinations and Evaluations, Inc. It is edited jointly by Richard Isaacs (RBIsaacs@lubrinco.com) and L. Burke Files (LBFiles@lubrinco.com). The LUBRINCO Group provides services in three high-threat areas, too specialized to be dealt-with in-house, that can adversely affect domestic and international bottom lines. • Protection of trade secrets and intellectual assets. o Anti-economic espionage. o OPSEC: The identification and protection of information that would give your competitors and adversaries an advantage. ÆGIS, October 2002 24 • International financial investigations and due diligence consulting. o Location and recovery of missing and hidden assets. o Establishing business relationships and strategic partnerships in Central and Eastern Europe, the offshore financial centers, Beijing and Shanghai, Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. o Anti-money laundering and financial fraud requirements under the International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2002 and the EU Revised Money Laundering Directive of 2002. • Protection of management, staff, and families. o In the high-threat environments of Latin America, Africa, the Mid- East, and Southeast Asia. o When traveling and living overseas. o When transporting items of substantial value. LUBRINCO identifies and quantifies threats and vulnerabilities, and their associated risk, then manages the vulnerabilities so you can transfer or live with the residual risk. We prevent disastrous financial loss to your company, and physical harm to you, your family, and your staff. For information on The LUBRINCO Group and its services, or for the archive of all past issues of ÆGIS e-journal in PDF format, please go to http://www.lubrinco.com/. To sign up for a complimentary subscription to ÆGIS e-journal or the ÆGIS e- journal PDF notification list, go to http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/manage/subscriberprefs?customerid=7768 or send an email to ejournal@lubrinco.com. To subscribe to our AvantGo channel, go to http://avantgo.com/channels/_add_channel.pl?cha_id=1773 To be removed from the subscription list, follow the instructions on the mailing you received, or send an e-mail to ejournal@lubrinco.com. If you know of anyone else who should be receiving ÆGIS e-journal, please send their e-mail address to ejournal@lubrinco.com. If there is a topic that you would like to know more about, send it to ejournal@lubrinco.com and the editors will consider it as the topic for an article in an upcoming issue. ÆGIS, October 2002 25 If you would like to submit an article for publication in ÆGIS e-journal, send it as an attachment to an e-mail to ejournal@lubrinco.com. Submission of an article certifies that (a) all information in the article is in the public record, or (b) that you are authorized to release any personal or corporate proprietary information contained in the article, and (c) that none of the article has previously been copyrighted. The submission of materials for publication in ÆGIS e-journal constitutes a license to The LUBRINCO Group Ltd, Inc., and/or Financial Examinations and Evaluations, Inc, their assigns, associates, or affiliates, to abridge and/or edit said submission, and to copyright and publish/republish any submitted materials in whatever written and/or electronic form they may choose. If you would like to go beyond normal fair-use in reproducing articles from this issue of ÆGIS e-journal, you may do so freely as long as appropriate source, copyright, accreditation, and link to the LUBRINCO website is included. This should be in the form
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