Talk:United States/@comment-26415680-20151017153433/@comment-26415680-20151018213729

First, thanks a lot for your reply.

So, apparently, according to your answer, assuming an MVNO inherits all the nasty properties of it's host carrier, i am going to be NAT-ed, i'll be able to VPN into office LAN from my phone, but won't be able to tether so this VPN its rather useless.

Any clarifications on 2 different APNs? Anything on known tethering workarounds that don't get you banned?

As a relatively advanced user, i guess i can find a workaround myself, for example, connect to VPN, enable tethering and then reconfigure it using iptables commands (or maybe there is an already existing utility for that, too) so it goes over the VPN interface, cheating the carriers deep packet inspection since all the traffic now goes through the VPN... But come on... i really don't want to start playing hide and seek with them!!! All i want is pay for X gbytes of high speed data and use it any way i want, is it really too much to ask? :-(

About international dialing, the reason i ask if direct dialing is possible is because, apparently (based on some Google searches), H2O CDMA actually does a "calling card style" dialing for international calls.

Speaking about Google Voice, unlike the older Talk app, i totally dislike their Hangouts app and would rather use Skype instead, but i kinda though "why shouldn't i have international calls directly, right on my GSM service".

I guess i've been way too optimistic about USA mobile services. Just so you can compare and understand my expectations here, in Israel we get a 6gbytes plan (throttled down on over-quota) you can use any way you want (tethering, VoIP, even seeding some torrents if that's what you want to waste your quota on), unlimited minutes and unlimited texts for 37 shekels a month (less than $10). Add a few more shekels and at 59 shekels a month (a bit over $15) you get 10 gbytes, unlimited minutes, unlimited text, unlimited MMS and free international calls to a list of 56 countries. Now you can likely understand my reaction of "WHAT??!! They want $40 for a mere 1 byte and they are going to tell me how to use it?!?!? SERIOUSLY?!"

Anyway, thanks again for answering and, i guess, if you are still reading this line, thank you for reading :-)