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Bev54

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7. If he has a SIM card you can get a new one there, to make it local, also often you

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Wed Jun 26, 2024, 05:19 PM

Jun 2024

can purchase a used burner phone in those countries and purchase minutes. Also ask around ex-pats living there to find out cheap ways to phone home. In Thailand we called a different number instead of 0 before the country code and it cost next to nothing for calls home

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My son will be traveling to the Philippines in August. Can anyone recommend [View all] pnwmom Jun 2024 OP

WhatsApp enid602 Jun 2024 #1

Thank you, enid602. Would it also work inside the Philippines, or only with pnwmom Jun 2024 #2

Whatsapp enid602 Jun 2024 #4

Right, but if he needed to call someone there who didn't have WhatsApp, pnwmom Jun 2024 #5

Whattsapp enid602 Jun 2024 #6

phillipines is a big place rampartc Jun 2024 #3

Marcos Jr. is no Trump Pototan Jun 2024 #13

thanks rampartc Jun 2024 #15

No. No military service Pototan Jun 2024 #16

you picked a good spot, i think. rampartc Jun 2024 #18

This may give you a sense of Marcos Jr. Pototan Jun 2024 #17

If he has a SIM card you can get a new one there, to make it local, also often you Bev54 Jun 2024 #7

He should be sure to visit the envelope works in Manila. Sneederbunk Jun 2024 #8

We have an expat over there IbogaProject Jun 2024 #9

Well, thank you for the shout out Pototan Jun 2024 #14

I have AT&T with a Boston number in the Philippines Pototan Jun 2024 #10

Thank you! pnwmom Jun 2024 #11

I can add that Pototan Jun 2024 #12