...is great! So I'm in my hotel room in Cambodia. My phone rings which is strange because I didn't think I'd have service with my carrier Visible. It's my 81 year old mother calling me. She dialed like any long distance call in the U.S. After getting off the phone I wondered if it would work calling the U.S. I had an issue with a credit card that morning. I hadn't told them I was traveling outside the country. Dialed the toll free number and sure enough it worked!
After getting off the phone I looked it up. Turns out Visible has wifi calling internationally. Only works to and from the States. Put your phone in airplane mode, connect to local wifi, and you're set. I wouldn't have found out about it except I had put my phone on airplane mode while flying and then in order to verify I was the person trying to access my Capital One account I had to turn on the wifi to open the Capital One app. It's a solution they came up with for people traveling overseas who can't receive SMS texts. So big bonus I can now call my family and deal with my bank.
And using a VPN I can access my Directv satellite service at home in Florida on excellent wifi here. I bought a larger tablet, almost 13 inch diagonal, before coming here. It's speakers are good, but with Bluetooth headphones it's like looking at a big screen across the room with excellent sound. So I'll be able to watch football and FOX News and also Netflix and Amazon Prime movies. Stepping out to get a good meal that shouldn't cost more than $4. Inside of my room it's a little slice of the U.S. Outside it's a very bustling, somewhat exotic, and very affordable different world. Plenty of English speakers, very friendly people, and a much lower crime rate than the U.S. Even has a new multiplex playing latest American movies, along with Asian ones, for $4.75.
After getting off the phone I looked it up. Turns out Visible has wifi calling internationally. Only works to and from the States. Put your phone in airplane mode, connect to local wifi, and you're set. I wouldn't have found out about it except I had put my phone on airplane mode while flying and then in order to verify I was the person trying to access my Capital One account I had to turn on the wifi to open the Capital One app. It's a solution they came up with for people traveling overseas who can't receive SMS texts. So big bonus I can now call my family and deal with my bank.
And using a VPN I can access my Directv satellite service at home in Florida on excellent wifi here. I bought a larger tablet, almost 13 inch diagonal, before coming here. It's speakers are good, but with Bluetooth headphones it's like looking at a big screen across the room with excellent sound. So I'll be able to watch football and FOX News and also Netflix and Amazon Prime movies. Stepping out to get a good meal that shouldn't cost more than $4. Inside of my room it's a little slice of the U.S. Outside it's a very bustling, somewhat exotic, and very affordable different world. Plenty of English speakers, very friendly people, and a much lower crime rate than the U.S. Even has a new multiplex playing latest American movies, along with Asian ones, for $4.75.
