Best Staying Connected Web Sites
Maintaining Electronic International Communications While You Travel

	Laptop Travel Tips
	Internet Cafe Directories
	WiFi Hotspots Worldwide
	Dial-Up Internet Access
	E-mail
	Telephones and Cell Phones

See Taking Your Laptop Overseas by Volker Poelzl for useful laptop travel tips.

Laptop Travel, www.laptoptravel.com, is an online store for those not communicating via an internet cafe, offering laptop mobility products as well as information and advice for laptop travelers.

Roadnews, www.roadnews.com, offers tips & tricks for laptop computer equipped travelers.

See Using Internet Cafés Abroad: Practical Tips for Safely Staying Connected in Public Places by Volker Poelzl for a practical and detailed article which provides more first-hand information.

Cybercafes.com, www.cybercafes.com, is a database of of 4377 internet cafes in 141 countries.

The Cybercafe Search Engine, www.cybercaptive.com, an online database with over 6,000 verified listings of cybercafes, public Internet access points and kiosks in 167 countries.

AnchorFree, www.anchorfree.com, lists free WiFi hotspots and hot zones around the world.

Hotspot Haven, www.hotspothaven.com, is a worldwide guide to free and paid WiFi hotspots.

Hotspot-Locations.com, www.hotspotlocations.com, is dedicated to Wireless Networking and has been founded to offer a global Hotspot Database of Wireless Access Points to the general public, and currently lists over 32,000 hotspot locations worldwide.

JiWire, www.jiwire.com, lists 148,179 free and paid WiFi hotspots in 135 countries, with maps and driving directions when available.

MSN WiFi Hotspot Locator, http://hotspot.msn.com, lists 130,251 free and paid WiFi hotspots in 98 countries, including a map feature.

WiFi 411, www.wifi411.com, lists over 41,000 unique WiFi HotSpot locations worldwide.

WiFinder, www.wifinder.com, lists over 14,000 WiFi free and commercial hotspots around the world.

Wi-Fi FreeSpot, www.wififreespot.com, is a worldwide guide to free WiFi hotspots.

Internet Access Providers Meta-List, www.herbison.com/her bison/iap_meta_ list.html.

MaGlobe, www.maglobe.net, provides prepaid dial-up Internet access for travelers worldwide.

NetAway, www.netaway.com, provides pre-paid pay-as-you go Internet access in 104 countries.

Steve Kropla's Help for World Travelers, www.kropla.com, provides information about ISPs and Global Internet Roaming Services worldwide.

The List, www.thelist.com, is an online directory of dial-up and broadband Internet Service Providers worldwide.

Worldwide Dialup, www.worldwidedialup.net, is an Internet roaming service with worldwide Internet connections via WiFi, Ethernet, and dialup in over 150 countries.

If you use your computer's mail program for your e-mail communications (using POP protocol), you should make sure that your e-mail account is also IMAP enabled, before traveling abroad. This way you can access your e-mail on the internet from any public computer.

Also keep in mind that certain countries filter internet content and that not all international websites are available locally. To make sure that you can access your e-mail while traveling it is best to sign up with an e-mail provider that has a global presence and has homepages in most countries worldwide. Among the most popular e-mail services are:

Gmail.com, mail.google.com, is Google's free webmail, accessible from any computer.

Hotmail.com, www.hotmail.com, offers a free internet e-mail account which may be used at any cybercafe or any computer.

Yahoo.com, www.yahoo.com, offers a free internet e-mail account which may be used at any cybercafe or any computer.

Telestial, www.telestial.com, provides telecommunications services to North American business and recreational travelers, and offers pre-paid wireless products for use in over 140 countries around the world.

Cellhire USA LLC, www.cellhire.com, offers international cell phone rentals, SIM card rentals, and satellite phone rentals in 170 countries.

Cellular Abroad, www.cellularabroad.com, offers international cell phone rentals and prepaid SIM cards.

ekit, www.ekit.com, provides a suite of travel communication services including mobile phones, SIM cards, global calling cards, Internet calling, voicemail, text messaging and email solutions. These services are accessible worldwide from more than 152 countries.

Go-Sim, www.gosim.com, offers international and global SIM cards for GSM mobile phones.

InTouch Smartcards GSM Store, www.intouchsmartcards.com, offers unlocked GSM phones, satellite phones, and prepaid International SIM cards.

PlanetFone, www.planetfone.com, provides international GSM cell phone rentals for more than 150 countries, with weekly, monthly and long-term rates.

Steve Kropla's Help for World Travelers, www.kropla.com, provides a World Wide Phone Guide, and World Mobile Phone Guide, as well as International Dialing Codes.

Note: Phone cards let you call the U.S. from overseas using English-speaking operators. Call for details and a wallet-card of toll-free numbers to reach the operator-service in each country:

AT&T, www.consumer.att.com, offers an international access calling card for overseas calls to the U.S., and has direct access phone numbers in many countries.

Global Phone: www.gphone.com, offers a Global Calling Card for 80 countries.

MCI, www.mci.com, offers an international calling card and has MCI access numbers in 125 countries worldwide.

Sprint, www.sprint.com, offers an international calling card (FONCARD) for telephone calls from 120 countries.