Do any of you do this? My daughter is in college in U.s., and I'm in Germany. I'd like a plan where we can stay in touch. Land lines are hard since she's on the go, and I still have younger ones here at home. What plan do you use?

I use my cell to call England a lot. I use pingo. I dial the toll free number or the access number that I have stored in my cell and then have it set up that I can just enter the number that I am dialing in England. It connects me and then it just uses my minutes from my cell plus the small per minute charge from pingo. This is a lot more economical than using the cell phones plan. i have my pingo account set up to automatically recharge from my charge card. i think that you can even get an access number from Germany to call to the US.

Do you have a home phone also? DS in in Taiwan. He calls from a land line to my cell. He also uses Skype sometimes. If you and DS have the capabilities, you could install Skype on your computers for free. With a web cam and microphone you could talk face to face at no cost.

Can you buy international caling cards in Germany?
My daughter bought international calling cards in the US to call my
grandson in Japan and also to call his girlfriend before they were married
who was in Russia at the time.
The cards she bought gave lots of minutes for only $5

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My Sis lives in Germany, I have an extra fee added to my cell phone plan and I can call her all I want, when I want. Call your provider and see how much something like that would cost.

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We are in Germany too. We brought our Vonage with us. As long as you are calling a USA cell phone there are no additional charges. However if you are calling a German cell it is 0.31 a minute. We had the international package added on to the Vonage so we can call German land lines for free too.

you might want to check into Skype. I'm not very computer savvy, so dd set it up, but we speak over the computer. cost is minimal, if anything.

HTH

I also second Vonage. My nephew is in Japan right now in the Marines. He uses vonage and uses a local area code so we can call him free. This is great for people in the military.