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Do you still have to pay for incoming calls and messages? That's one thing I have never understood about international service providers.

Depends on the plan. With sprint I was on the free incoming plan. Cost me like $65/mo. I jumped to Centennial Wireless with my wife. I think its like $120/mo after taxes for 600 (or maybe its 800) minutes, free incoming, and her nights/weekends start at 5 P.M. And OMG its a GSM provider in the U.S.

They are, however, as incompetent as Sprint. Neither of us has EVER sent a text message. I got charged 25 cents for an international text and she got charged 30 for a picture message... and when she's at work if I call her cell it rings once and drops. I can't even get her voicemail. They keep saying "its a problem with your phone"... we've replaced our phones multiple times. We had KRZR's, and now we've got Ericsson Walkmans.