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My sister is currently in Hong Kong.  She's been there a couple of days now on business.  A little earlier it dawned on me that I could've loaned her a 3 Skypephone (or should that be a 3Skypephone?  After all this time I still don't know!)

With one of those she would've avoided paying for calls to us in England altogether and we could've done the same.  She'd still have had to pay to call her friends and colleagues but those would've cost the same as when in the UK using '3 Like Home'.

To be honest I'm not sure she'd have gone for it anyway.  Why?  Well, amongst other things, she's got an iPhone, a Blackberry, a DS Lite, a camera (had... it was stolen!) and a laptop!.  She really wouldn't have wanted to add another item to the mix no matter how small!

Instead, she's settled for the good old 'three-rings-and-hang-up' trick instead when phoning home.  This involves her ringing our parents house and, you guessed it... let it ring three times from the hotel phone and then hang up!  Then whoever is home rings her back.  Cheap landline international calling plan makes this possible.  It's crude but it works.  I still prefer the Skype method myself.