Phoning home from the USA??

[onehunga]

I got an AT&T calling card. Costs stuff all per min to call anywhere in the world. Local calls and calls within the US are next to nothing when converted to sterling. Used my orange tri band to receive text messages and to indicate when a new voice message was received. Would then use the calling card to retrieve the voice messages rather than calling back to the UK on the mobile. I didn't do this but you could always update your answer phone message to let people know where you are and that there may be a delayed response.

I found a UK freephone number for AT&T off the internet (in NCL) and it was all setup within an hour. They send you everything you need to know about charging scales etc. There are NO hidden costs, monthly fees or set call limits that you need to hit at all. Big advantage I could see was that there is no limit either since it all gets direct debited to switch or credit card each month so no worries about getting half way through a call and being cut off!!

Compared them to Onetel as well who I use for toll calls from UK to overseas at home but their charge card was a bit more expensive.

Good luck.

Edit:- being nice so here is a link I found:-
AT&T

Phone number is [phone].