In Reply to: Mobile phones- help needed - confused posted by boris on Friday, 13. July 2007 at 09:44 Bali Time:
When we are in Indonesia, we try to get the best of both. We have our Aust phones set for International roaming so that we can receive messages and calls etc from home (including the airlines). We also take a couple of older handsets to put in the local SIM cards.
We keep the Aust phones in our in room safe but check them regularly and use SMS etc. We also let family etc know our new Indo phone numbers for emergencies and keep the older handsets with us all time for everyday use.
(You can pick up a second hand phone very cheaply in Australia)