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Off to Florida for a proper theme park style dream holiday for 2 weeks soon (yay etc etc). I am doing all the usual research before going. A major worry I have is the VERY scary stories about insane mobile charges abroad for web usage.
I know, I could just turn the bugger off, or only use for an odd (expensive) text. But frankly I really want to make full use of my iPhone and it's ability to navigate etc while away. However I'm on orange and it seems there are insane prices with this stuff, like £8 per MB or so. What I want to know is there any way to lessen the cost? Or possibly find a way around it? It seems at the moment even thinking about using a UK smartphone in the us to web browse is insanity. |
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Yep. I preload maps before I travel abroad but sometimes a triangulation server is used based on your cell location. It was more this I was thinking about. |
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I've just had a rather unpleasant data roaming bill for going to Poland for a few days so I know exactly where you are coming from. I'm going to Vegas / California in November and getting a US sim card for about 10 dollars and putting some credit on it - this information is from my mate who went last year and did this.
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You could try getting a US SIM at AT&T. No idea how much that would cost but I would assume you would have to pay for a month (~$90 for an iphone). I don't know if they will do PAYG for this type of thing. I would get on AT&T's website and do a live chat and ask them. |
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Apparently AT&T do a 100MB for $19.99 on their Pay As You Go service. You'd have to use a false address when you first register the SIM though as that's usually how they set up the area code. Want to look into simply buying a pay and go simm now for american use. Ideally I buy a simm, stick it in in america, and can use my iphone as normal within the US. Not bothered about calls/texts back home. Just mainly want 3g, data and call/text ability. |
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could always just buy an ipad when you first arrive and use that for everything. there is no contract required to use it, but you would have to fork out for the ipad. but then you have an ipad!!???? [surrender]
the american sim card would probably be the best way to go. you could always unlock youre iphone and activate it on atnt for the month and just cancel it before you leave saying your not happy with the service. I know verizon gives you the 30 day thing so I assume atnt does it too. |
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Are there any decent sites I can visit to check this option out? |
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With at&t you can not put a prepaid sim in a contract device. I tried to do that with my old blackberry pearl and when i called them they told me no. (i called a few times to make sure I didn't get a dumbass rep)
You're probably better off just buying a cheapo virgin mobile phone or something like that and getting the payg service. With virgin mobile you get unlimited text and data + 300 minutes for $25. You really can't beat that. |
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With at&t you can not put a prepaid sim in a contract device. I tried to do that with my old blackberry pearl and when i called them they told me no. (i called a few times to make sure I didn't get a dumbass rep) |
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You're probably better off just buying a cheapo virgin mobile phone or something like that and getting the payg service. |
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