Cell Phone Abroad?

[snusmoomrik]

To all my travel-savvy friends- what do you use when you are abroad? We travel quite a bit and every time I plan to look into international travel cell phone rates, I get sidetracked and then get a lovely call from my provider telling me that I owe them 1 million dollars and that I should switch to an international plan. Which I do. And then just

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[angry_ksen]

Wrote rant on your Facebook about this. How long are you in Germany for?

[taleon]

We have simple GSM(?) phone and buy local prepaid SIM card in the countries we go to (or rather used to go to). In Germany, from what I recall, rates were quite reasonable and sim card itself was free. In France, sim card alone was $30. But this info is of 6 years ago (h-nyk).

[redheadrat]

We always buy local prepaid phone in regular stores. In Germany we bought TMobile.

[_milashka]

Deutsche Telecom, right?

[redheadrat]

still trademarked TMobile there

[_milashka]

:)

[snus_mumrick]

We usually get local gsm cards of "pay as you go type". Cards go into our old unlocked phones ftprom t-mobile. T-mobile actually unlock phones for you if you know who to ask.

[gloochie]

Use a GSM phone. I just got an unlocked smartphone (which doubles as a 3G tablet), was using a cheap small Nokia before that.