GrooVeIP's a Great Backup for Minute-Slurping Calls

My first question to the desk clerk on arrival at a hotel in a strange country is no longer, "What time does the restaurant close?" It's more often, "Where I can get a SIM card?"

Two-dollar-a-minute voice and 10-dollar-a-megabyte Internet roaming in many parts of the world make acquiring a local card a must.

I recently had a pleasant first morning strolling around an Egyptian town center haggling for a data-only 3.75G SIM card. I paid -- or rather overpaid -- about 30 bucks for four megabytes, which was plenty for a week's Skype Internet calling, Dropbox camera uploads (lots of camels), and continuous Internet browsing.

Skype worked well over 3.75G, and at $0.023 a minute to U.S. numbers, $10 of Skype pay-as-you-go credit lasts.

However, on return to the U.S., I think I might have found a better voice calling solution -- and that's Google Voice with Android app GrooVeIP add-on.  FULL ARTICLE AT TECHNEWSWORLD