Hi, I don't know if this will be helpful or not but I arrange for people to call me from home at specific times when I am in Belize. It costs approximately $1.40 to make a call and then 8 cents a minute thereafter. I also have my notebook with me and email someone to give me a call. I know this sounds kinda cheap but I went home about five years ago and was greeted with a $720 bill from AT&T. I would far prefer to pay back the people that I wanted to phone down rather than give it to the phone company.