cell phones & calling cards

I will be in Europe for 4 weeks. I'll be spending several days in
London, Paris, Barcelona, Nice, Venice, Florence and Rome.

I'm curious to know which calling card I should get for the best rates
to the US.

Also, Do you recommend I buy some sort of International cell phone
while I'm there? I use Sprint in US so that won't work, but are their
cheap pre-pay phones I can get to use in and around Europe?

Thanks,

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I will be in Europe for 4 weeks. I'll be spending several days in
London, Paris, Barcelona, Nice, Venice, Florence and Rome.

I'm curious to know which calling card I should get for the best rates
to the US.

Also, Do you recommend I buy some sort of International cell phone
while I'm there? I use Sprint in US so that won't work, but are their
cheap pre-pay phones I can get to use in and around Europe?

In London, you can pick up a triband Nokia 3120 for GBP39.99 including a
SIM card. You can then either roam on that when you leave the UK, or
unlock it (free directions available online) and buy local SIMcards for
France, Spain, and Italy.

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handsets/pay_as_you_go/nokia/all

Sheila

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Also, Do you recommend I buy some sort of International cell phone
while I'm there? I use Sprint in US so that won't work, but are their
cheap pre-pay phones I can get to use in and around Europe?

I suggest you look at:
http://www.thetravelinsider.info
http://www.prepaidgsm.net
http://nordicgroup.us/intlrate

I think what you need is an unlocked multiband GSM phone with a Riiing SIM
card.

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Donald Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net