<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Glen de Saint Géry <<a href="mailto:Glen@icann.org">Glen@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">October 16, 2011 3:30:58 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:liaison6c@gnso.icann.org">liaison6c@gnso.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:liaison6c@gnso.icann.org">liaison6c@gnso.icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[liaison6c] Currency and SIM cards in Senegal</b><br></span></div><br><div><br>Dear All,<br><br>For anyone travelling to the ICANN meeting in Dakar next week.<br><br>The currency in Senegal is the *Communaute Financiere Africaine<br>franc (XOF), *also used in Togo, Mali and other francophone African<br>countries<br>Based on the tools I have available, as of today,<br>*$1 = 473F*<br><blockquote type="cite">*€1 = 656F*<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*£1 = 747F*<br></blockquote><br>Here is information on getting mobile:<br><br>Those of you who have an unlocked mobile phone will probably find that<br>buying a prepaid SIM card for the week will be far less expensive than<br>roaming costs using your usual carrier(*). Based on this page from<br>Orange<<a href="http://www.orange.sn/djoumtouwayyatu,2,37,ay,e172125ff9ab2c5">http://www.orange.sn/djoumtouwayyatu,2,37,ay,e172125ff9ab2c5</a>>(in French), the rates are, from what I can gather:<br>SIM card: 2 000F ($4.23) comes loaded with 2 000F credit<br><br>Per minute domestic: 85F ($0.18)<br>Per minute domestic night (00:00-06:00): 50F ($0.11)<br>Per minute international: 170F ($0.36)<br>SMS domestic: 30F ($0.06)<br>SMS international: 100F ($0.21)<br><br>(*) My Canadian telco would charge me $3.00 per minute or $0.75 per SMS For Senegal<br>You can also buy an unlocked phone there<br><<a href="http://www.orange.sn/djoumtouwayyatu,2,1720,ay,e172125ff9ab2c5">http://www.orange.sn/djoumtouwayyatu,2,1720,ay,e172125ff9ab2c5</a>><br><br>For as little as 12 900F ($27.30).<br><br>I hope this is helpful. Feel free to pass it to anyone travelling.<br><br><br>Glen de Saint Géry<br>GNSO Secretariat<br><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a><br>http://gnso.icann.org<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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