said by nitzan:Just get a cheap local pre-paid phone (or SIM) that has free incoming - and use callback for all your calls.
I did that in Japan and went from something like $1.2/minute to 12 cents a minute.
a little PITA to deal with, but well worth it IMHO.
One of the major points of having gotten a GSM phone was that it has the flexibility to change networks via a new SIM. It's simply *finding* a new SIM that's proven challenging. Getting a new phone is both pointlessly expensive and defeats the purpose of having a "world phone". A SIM card makes much more sense financially and in the concept of equipment reuse. It's just the challenge of actually being able to re-use.
