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To: Joe NYC who wrote (15876)10/2/1998 2:57:00 AM
From: Rajala  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
>I heard somewhere that if you are for example live in Portugal,
>and you are visiting for example Switzerland, if you are calling
>someone across the street in Switzerland,you get charged for
>either 1 or 2 international calls between Portugal and
>Switzerland. Is there any truth to it?

In special cases you have to pay international charges. I.e. if its a portugese interim in her miniskirt on the other side of the street (with also a portugese mobile).

But if you have a Portugese mobile and you call in Switzerland a Swiss number whether mobile or fixed there's no international line. The local operator switches the call directly to local phone.

For the technofreaks about how the system works:

Every time you switch on a GSM mobile wherever in the world it starts to communicate with the local network "I'm from Lissabon". The local network contacts the home network and asks for authentication i.e. is the mobile stolen, has the user been disconnected due to unpaid bills. If OK'd, the home network records in the HLR that the guy is in Namibia, and any calls for his number has to be directed to Windhoek, Namibia, BSC. The local network marks into its VLR that this guy is OK and the network logs him on and starts to follow him as he is scooting down the country in his open top Mercedes with the Portuguese interim (with the miniskirt). So when his mother calls him, the system knows where the guy is and that particular BTS starts calling the mobile. El brilliante (IMO).

- rajala
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