As you may or may not know, I'm about to embark on a quest around the world with my good friend Gabriel Fleming. We're making a film together, that for now I will call "The Around the World Film". I'm set to fly out of LAX and into Bangkok on September 5th. I'm extremely excited about this trip, but for various reasons it's important that I maintain contact with those living in what will be far away countries.To that end I began investigating all manner of communication methods: international cell phone, satellite phone, reanimated passenger pigeons. In the end I settled on using a little program called Skype. So long as I have an internet connection, I can make phone calls to folks in the U.S. for next to nothing. So far in my testing (incl. a call to Budapest) the sound quality has been impeccable.
So if you're looking for a cheap solution to international calls and you don't mind being locked to a computer: Skype (or the similar Gizmo Project) is a good bet.
A breakdown of their pricing plans:
$2.99/month buys you unlimited calling to land lines in the U.S. from anywhere in the world.
$9.99/month buys you unlimited calling to over 30 countries internationally including the US.
It is such a surreal world we live in now - the internet is really going to great lengths to connect all of us into a very real global community.
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