Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Wednesday, August 18 - Telephones

We will need phone and internet service in Clermont-Ferrand.  Most likely, we will purchase simple mobile phones and pre-pay/pay by the call rather than by contract.   For internet, it will probably be France Telecom's Orange service, but that is a guess. 

For calls to the U.S, we will use Skype.  We have set up Mom on Skype so she can call us and we can call her, PC to PC for a few cents a minute.  We can also call our home phone and check messages for a similar rate, rather than pay $.99 per minute on our U.S. cell phones. 

That is my best guess for now - getting those things set up will be high priority when we arrive in Clermont-Ferrand.  We have already started a mental list for the first few days:  Get into apartment, open bank account, start utilities, phone and internet - we will be busy! 

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