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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Australia
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Any suggestions on a calling card/plan for Mom (in Hubei) using China Mobile to call her lovely daughter in the US. The easier the better.

Thanks!

http://www.vonage.com/world-calling-plans/vonage-world/?refer_id=WEBHP0706010001W1&lid=sub_nav_world

Try Vonage for a flat fee every month she can call her mum as much as she likes for nothing from your home phone and also now they have free extensions and she can call China from her cell phone to a land line in China.

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: China
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Any suggestions on a calling card/plan for Mom (in Hubei) using China Mobile to call her lovely daughter in the US. The easier the better.

Thanks!

Chris,

You can try a callback phone card from www.cybercalling.com. Jane may need to do this because it's in Chinese. It lets you set up 5 phone numbers in china to call a 400-number that is assigned to your phone card's pin. It works most of the time for Barb, so it's not as reliable as we want, but it's the best we can find at this time.

You pay the bill online in the US, sign up Mom's China Mobile number, then give Mom the assigned 400-number. Mom dials the 400-number, waits for a prompt, then punches in your US number (see instructions on the website), and wait almost forever for the US side to ring.

I just checked their website and it's down for maintenance. Try later.

Also, there's a website for sending and receiving text messages between a China cell phone and a website in Chinese. It would appear to people in China that someone in China sent them the text message. It costs them 10 cents RMB to reply but free to receive, and it costs us as low as 3 cents US to send. You can also have the website relay the text message to your cell phone or to your email address. Emails are better because Chinese text message shows up as funny characters after going through US cell phone network. It works best if you have a smartphone. Go to www.talk2china.com and give it a try.

Hope that helps.

Bobby

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: China
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I have found that having wife call her family is best rather than them trying to call from China. If someone needs to talk to her they can send a single text message and she can call back using google voice for about 2 cents a minute. google voice allows you to ring you any number you choose, cell, landline etc so I like that feature.

I also have used skype via wifi when i was traveling and that also has function. When I was in China I brought my magicjack and used it like having my US number calling out, which worked great too.

There are many options to choose, I like portability of google voice over something like vonage, which needs hardware. google voice is virtual.

I also used tak2china extensively for texting when we were living apart during CR1 process, i bought like 1000 units and never ran out of messages

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: China
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Hey buddy we use QQ or Skype, Son taught her mother how to use the computer now skype all the time.

If she has access to a computer, I agree with bigdog. I use Skype to talk to my wife in China. As far as the phone, I use Dianhua China. I have her call me, I don't answer, then I call her back using Dianhua China. It's 1.5 cents a minutes for mobile to mobile.

Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: China
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I suggest Italkbb, you will be provided a China phone number where friends and family can call you in the US. You can also link 2 cell phones to the account which gives you 500 mins per month to call or receive calls from China. Easy as pie...

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: China
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1. find teenager in family.

2. give teenager computer.

3. give teenager account and password for skype.

4. arrange schedule with Mom and teenager.

5. pay teenager as needed.

Good Luck ! [teenagers is important]

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: China
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It is possible to "buy" skype credit which allows one to call mobile or land phones for $0.02 USD per minute. We use this method calling both east and west. The call quality is superb to that of calling cards.

Another method, if they have a decent internet connection is to buy a "magic jack" in the US with a "local to the US" number and send it to china with a cheap phone hand set. When the person in china uses it all calls will be a local US call.

Caveat, both of these methods need a computer and internet.

John

 
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