I am sitting in Arlanda getting ready to fly home, after a night at the Pulver party with Herding Cats, a fantastic Seattle-based club band. Great energy at the party. Since I’m too foggy for real work, I thought I’d tally up my personal telecommunications costs so far this trip.
Let’s see, on my WIND prepaid SIM:
5 London -> London calls about 1 min each
1 London -> US call, 1 min
40 or 50 SMS, tarrifed at ???
Total debited, 17 euro and some change, calculated by subtracting current balance from balance when arrived in London
Total Cost: ~$21.00
On my Cingular GSM account:
2 Stockholm -> Stockholm calls
2 brief Stockholm -> USA calls
Total 9 minutes, tariffed at $1.49 each
Total cost: ~$15.00
On Skype:
34 calls, 204 minutes total. Plus approximately 25 IM converstations that conveyed far more info than SMS.
Total cost: 0