Hi Kath,

you can use your phones over there if you have international roaming. Only pitfall of this is if people ring you you end up paaying heaps for the call also.

What we did was went to the MBK and brought a new sim card for our phone. But later on we realised that some of our phones were locked. The mistake we made was go into the first shop we saw, and they did not speak much English. Later on we discovered a whole floor devoted to phones.

I have heard that it is cheaper to do it there. Then you just email your new phone number to home and people can contact you. They also have phone cards you can buy over there and you use a public phone box especially for tourists. They are everywhere.

Another alternative for people to ring you is to go to Coles or Safeway and buy one of those tourist phonecards. All supermarkets have brochures on them. Once you work them out (and u have to dial a lot of numbers) they are a hell of a lot cheaper than using your own home phone even if they are ringing your mobile.

Hope this helps


Karin