Google has been trying to shut down Hangouts for years, but their replacements always suck.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:41:27 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] International cell phone use I find it interesting that Google is shutting down Google Hangouts to replace it with a Slack clone. If Slack is what you want, why not just use Slack? From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Darin Steffl Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:33 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] International cell phone use I've used a data only sim in Croatia before. It was unlimited data for something cheap like $15 for 10 days. What I don't understand is why people are using whatsapp? No one I know uses it but everyone I know has Facebook and with messenger and you can chat, call, and video message. So why go out of the way to download a redundant app like whatsapp? I've been on cruises, overseas many times and I either pay Verizon $10 a day for the roaming or if long term, I buy a sim card just for data. All voice calls I do over Facebook, our office voip through an android app, or slack. On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 4:28 PM SmarterBroadband < [email protected] wrote: Mark, you can do $10 a day for the convenience!!!! Adam From: AF [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Mark - Myakka Technologies Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 1:49 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] International cell phone use Bill, Yeah, that's verizon's pay as you go rate. $10/day adds up quick. Doing some research, I can get some European data only sim's for about $35 for 30 days with about 8GB of data. 8GB should be good enough for keeping up to date with whatsapp and basic web surfing. Guess I can check my voicemail and get texts on my main number when I'm near WiFi. I do have a Boingo account I rarely use. I think they have an App the will detect and automatically connect to their hotspots. Thinking between that, public WiFi and a data only SIM, I should be reachable most of the time. -- Best regards, Mark mailto:[email protected] Myakka Technologies, Inc. www.MyakkaTech.com ------ Thursday, January 24, 2019, 4:26:21 PM, you wrote: Whatever you do, be sure to explore your options. A friend who just spent 3 weeks in Australia & had not really looked into the options spent $10/day for cell service while there. 21 x $10 =$210. I guess that's not horrible, but I tend to think about what else I might have wanted to spend that money on. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:17 PM Trey Scarborough < [email protected] > wrote: I have T-mobile one account and use whatsapp mainly. Everywhere I have been the included international roaming data connection has worked descent enough with Whatsapp that I really never looked at any other options. The additional I pay for the One on top of the regular service would probably equal the same as what it would be for a couple of sim cards and service. On 1/24/2019 2:38 PM, Mark - Myakka Technologies wrote: > I know Chuck has been overseas and maybe some of you others have been > recently. Last time I was overseas there were no cell phones. I'm > trying to figure out my best option for cell phone usage. > > So far looks like my best option is to get a data only sim and use > whatsapp. That seems to be working fine for my daughter right now. > We are able to communicate with no issues. > > When I connect to WiFi, I should be able to use WiFi calling with my > current number to call back to the states if needed. In the past > using WiFi calling, seems that texts will work also. > > So, here is the crazy part. If I get a data only SIM, there will be > no voice connection. Almost like my phone being in airplane mode, but > with data enabled. Will the WiFi calling work on the data only plan? > Will it detect I have data, but no voice and fail over to WiFi > calling. > > Anybody ever try this? > > -- > > Thanks, > Mark mailto: [email protected] > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.MyakkaTech.com > > -- Trey Scarborough VP Engineering 3DS Communications LLC p:9729741539 -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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