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How to call a number from another country while I'm in another country myself?
Or can I just dial +92... as usual?
Yes. Although it is the + prefix that's the "magic" here. It is short hand for the outbound international dialling code for whatever country you are dialling from. ...
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Call local emergency number using a foreign mobile number
For all countries, you can just dial 112. Dialling 112 will direct you to the same emergency call centre as phoning the country's emergency number would. In the EU, emergency call centres must provide ...
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Do many Japanese people speak Korean?
No. Most Japanese people do NOT speak Korean. However, the English language is a required subject in the Japanese secondary education; although English education has not gone very well for Japanese ...
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Are PMR446 walkie-talkies legal in Switzerland?
Yes, you can use PMR446 walkie-talkies in Switzerland.
Usage of PMR446 in Europe is licensed on a country-by-country basis and not mainly by the EU. You can get an up to date list of European ...
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Texting someone who is out of the country?
If you send a text or make a call to a US number, you'll pay whatever you normally pay to send a text or make a call to a US number. It does not matter whether the phone associated with that number is ...
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How to call a number from another country while I'm in another country myself?
You can just dial as usual, just like you would to call him at home, and the call will go through. But you'll be charged for an international call, however your cell phone plan handles international ...
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How to ensure two-factor availability when traveling?
You are right to be worried: text message (SMS) delivery is best effort only. When traveling internationally, they are all too frequently delivered late or never, and there is really no way around ...
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Call local emergency number using a foreign mobile number
The information about 112 in another answer is correct. It is also true of 911, so to address your concerns explicitly,
not sure if I will be able to call the local emergency number (USA - 911) ...
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How do I call an 8-digit Singapore number from the US?
Generally, you dial (international access code) + (country code) + (8 digit number).
The country code for Singapore is 65 (easy to google). The international access code from the US is 011. From a ...
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How do I call an 8-digit Singapore number from the US?
Generally when calling internationally there are three parts to the number you dial.
The international dialiing prefix for the country you are calling from. In North america this is "011" (in much of ...
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How to ensure two-factor availability when traveling?
You have a few options, ordered from most desirable to least:
Switch from SMS to Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTP) apps, as mentioned in the other answer. The codes are generated offline in your ...
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How do I call emergency services for someone in Ireland when I am in the US?
My friend had to get an ambulance for me last year, she called 911, her local police department contacted my local Garda station and they took it from there, although I'm pretty sure this is ...
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How to call a number from another country while I'm in another country myself?
Yes, you should dial +92, as usual.
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How to ensure two-factor availability when traveling?
My answer sounds like a product pitch but it's not intend as such other than "it actually works". I have no affiliation with or financial interest in T-Mobile.
We use a T-Mobile plan in the ...
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Call local emergency number using a foreign mobile number
In the United States, you can make an emergency 911 phone call from a mobile phone without a SIM. As long as your phone can communicate with the network (supports the same frequency and standard), you ...
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Receive and Make calls: Egypt to UK without extra fees
This is possible. My partner does this, she has one British SIM in her phone where she makes/takes British calls, and one Czech SIM where she makes/takes Czech calls. This way she avoids any fee's ...
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How do I call emergency services for someone in Ireland when I am in the US?
Ask your friend to use local resources to select a list of direct phone numbers, not 999, to call for an emergency. When I was regularly phoning my mother, I had the phone number of her next door ...
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How to ensure two-factor availability when traveling?
Not going to rehash what has already been said, but just a few specific points:
If you will be connecting from abroad, your IP address of the moment will reflect the fact that you're abroad. So that ...
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What's the most cost-effective service for calling landlines while travelling?
I personally use Skype for this purpose. Their rates are pennies a minute, and they have apps for many different platforms. Google Voice is even cheaper in many cases. To give any more recommendations ...
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How do I call emergency services for someone in Ireland when I am in the US?
You can't. Emergency telephony services are local and cannot be transferred internationally.
That said, I can't think of any scenario where that somebody could be in trouble and capable of ...
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How to call a number from another country while I'm in another country myself?
If we're talking cellphones here, just get into the habit of always storing the proper international prefix with the number. It will not cost you extra to dial such a number as a local call, and if ...
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Call local emergency number using a foreign mobile number
Data point:
In NZ the emergency number is 111.
112 works to call emergency services from a GSM phone - I just tried.
Nobody has ever told me this before now.
Dialling 112 from a landline accesses ...
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How can one receive a German phone number before going to Germany?
You don’t need a German phone number to call German mobile or landline numbers cheaply. You just need a provider which has decent rates for calling German numbers.
Nowadays, many landline or mobile ...
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How do I call an 8-digit Singapore number from the US?
{International prefix} + {country code} + {number}
For Singapore, the country code is 65
From a mobile device: +65 #### ####
From a land line: 011 65 #### ####
Side note: Since the country code for ...
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How can I receive SMS including short codes while in France?
There are three options which may or may not work well for you:
Forwarding
You keep your US phone back home in the US and try to have SMS messages forwarded while travelling. You will need to make ...
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What's the most cost-effective service for calling landlines while travelling?
Skype with a bit of credit is an excellent approach- you can call any number in most countries and I believe that 800 numbers in the US generally work (that becomes important when you only have an 800 ...
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Activation of International roaming
Activating international data roaming in your phone mean, that the phone will use network from other network as the network of you SIM card. It's better to deactivate that option, particularly in ...
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Call local emergency number using a foreign mobile number
In any ITU country, dialing 911, or 112 should connect you to emergency services if the phone physically works. (I probably shouldn't go and test this, but any emergency number I could think of worked ...
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