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"Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b4034768d6c015298971c@news.newsguy.com
> In article <2iu413Fqje86U1@uni-berlin.de>, Marcs1102NOSPAM@Hotmail.com
> says...
>> "AP" <cat@eveningstar.dyndns.org> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1b338dccd578304798978d@news.dallas.sbcglobal.net
>>> In article <2isuslFra3s1U1@uni-berlin.de>,
>>> Marcs1102NOSPAM@Hotmail.com says...
>>>> And here's another Nit to pick, it goes by local time on the phone.
>>>> Just to confuse the heck out of things, If you have an older SRW
>>>> contract/number based on the WEST coast (Pacific time) starting at
>>>> 8:01PM, and travel to the boundary between MST and PST, and pick up
>>>> a MST tower, with the time on the phone being an hour earlier than
>>>> local time, you can actually get evening starting at 7:01PM
>>>> (actually it will work at any time zone boundary, I just have
>>>> personal experience with it between PST and MST)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well..... I was wonderring that and even called Verizon multiple
>>> times and ask about it. Evrytime they claim that original plan area
>>> time counts not local. Unfortunatelly I dont remember when I placed
>>> my calls when I was on the east coast to verify that
>>>
>>>
>>> AP
>>
>> Be aware that there was a comma in the above sentence. I'll try and
>> make it clearer. Since MST is 1 hour later than PST, you can be in a
>> PST area (local time is 7:01) but picking up a MST tower (that will
>> show 8:01 on the phone). It absolutely does go *BY THE TIME ON THE
>> PHONE*, the point was it does NOT go by local time (if you are near
>> a time zone boundary, it goes by the time shown on the phone, not
>> the clock where you are at).
>>
>> For instance, when I was on the East Coast, I could call my friends
>> in CA at 9:01 PM EST (time shown on the phone) for free, but if they
>> answered or called me back, it was prime time for them (6:01PM PST),
>> (and even if they answered, they had to pay for airtime). When my
>> sister came to visit from the East coast (where she lived), she had
>> to wait for 9:01 PM on her phone (local LA time) for free time to
>> kick in, which unfortunately was after midnight for her friends back
>> home on EST.
>>
>> Made talking hard. Nowadays, we suggest to our family and friends,
>> calling on weekends when the time warp doesn't effect people's lives
>> as much.
>>
>>
>>
> One difference: if you have Verizon mobile-to-mobile minutes, you can
> call anytwhere anytime, between to verizon phones, and pay abolsutily
> nothing!
>
> Louise
Mostly true, however if you go over you M2M time (in network is usually
unlimited, but M2M was not), or if the calling or called party is NOT in a
verizon or extended area (IE either are in roaming areas), it costs.
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