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Travelling with our AT&T-based iPhone5s
In a few weeks we go on a cruise vacation. We fly from the USA to
London and spend a couple of days in London (hopefully sleeping off the jet lag), then on to an 11-day cruise around the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland, no Wales), followed immediately by a flight back to the USA. We'd like to be able to maintain contact with our adult children for emergency purposes. We have no experience using telephones overseas. Can someone either make suggestions, or point to some good article that contains suggestions for using your phone in that manner? We'd like to avoid, if possible, astronomical charges for that previlege, but don't have the foggiest notion what to do or what to not do. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer, or point us to. |
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In article m, Gary
wrote: In a few weeks we go on a cruise vacation. We fly from the USA to London and spend a couple of days in London (hopefully sleeping off the jet lag), then on to an 11-day cruise around the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland, no Wales), followed immediately by a flight back to the USA. We'd like to be able to maintain contact with our adult children for emergency purposes. We have no experience using telephones overseas. Can someone either make suggestions, or point to some good article that contains suggestions for using your phone in that manner? We'd like to avoid, if possible, astronomical charges for that previlege, but don't have the foggiest notion what to do or what to not do. if your phone is unlocked and can use a sim, get a local sim there. you'll pay local rates for calls and you will have a local number. someone calling you would need to call england. or, just use it on wifi. be absolutely sure to turn off cellular. also remove the sim (if it has one) so that there's no accidental connections. you can also use voip for international phone calls and not pay much (or at all). |
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In article , nospam
wrote: In article m, Gary wrote: In a few weeks we go on a cruise vacation. We fly from the USA to London and spend a couple of days in London (hopefully sleeping off the jet lag), then on to an 11-day cruise around the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland, no Wales), followed immediately by a flight back to the USA. We'd like to be able to maintain contact with our adult children for emergency purposes. We have no experience using telephones overseas. Can someone either make suggestions, or point to some good article that contains suggestions for using your phone in that manner? We'd like to avoid, if possible, astronomical charges for that previlege, but don't have the foggiest notion what to do or what to not do. if your phone is unlocked and can use a sim, get a local sim there. you'll pay local rates for calls and you will have a local number. someone calling you would need to call england. or, just use it on wifi. be absolutely sure to turn off cellular. also remove the sim (if it has one) so that there's no accidental connections. you can also use voip for international phone calls and not pay much (or at all). If they have an iPhone 5 it is not likely they have an unlocked iPhone on AT&T. They won't unlock it unless it is out of contract. In any case buying a local sim is overkill if they only want to use it for emergency purposes. Text messages are the least expensive way of keeping in contact on a cruise. They can also text when the ship is at sea and on the ships cell service. -- Charles |
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On 8/9/2013 10:50, Charles wrote:
In article , nospam wrote: In article m, Gary wrote: In a few weeks we go on a cruise vacation. We fly from the USA to London and spend a couple of days in London (hopefully sleeping off the jet lag), then on to an 11-day cruise around the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland, no Wales), followed immediately by a flight back to the USA. We'd like to be able to maintain contact with our adult children for emergency purposes. We have no experience using telephones overseas. Can someone either make suggestions, or point to some good article that contains suggestions for using your phone in that manner? We'd like to avoid, if possible, astronomical charges for that previlege, but don't have the foggiest notion what to do or what to not do. if your phone is unlocked and can use a sim, get a local sim there. you'll pay local rates for calls and you will have a local number. someone calling you would need to call england. or, just use it on wifi. be absolutely sure to turn off cellular. also remove the sim (if it has one) so that there's no accidental connections. you can also use voip for international phone calls and not pay much (or at all). If they have an iPhone 5 it is not likely they have an unlocked iPhone on AT&T. They won't unlock it unless it is out of contract. In any case buying a local sim is overkill if they only want to use it for emergency purposes. Text messages are the least expensive way of keeping in contact on a cruise. They can also text when the ship is at sea and on the ships cell service. If they have an iPhone 5 it is not likely they have an unlocked iPhone on AT&T. Not necessarily. I am using an unlocked iPhone 5 on AT&T. It may not be normal or a wise thing to do, but it's because I'm a frequent traveler, and I need to use local prepaid SIM cards to make local calls. In any case buying a local sim is overkill if they only want to use it for emergency purposes. I agree with you. A local (prepaid) SIM card makes sense for making frequent "local calls" and it will be very expensive for making international calls (call back). I also agree with your suggestion for using AT&T's special international rates, or it's for "emergency" only and if he has limited access to WIFI, he could just use roaming service and turn off "cellular data" and "data roaming" most of time and turn back on at a specific time to check emails. For non-emergency voice calls, he can tell callers that he is in overseas at the moment and will call them back - it takes about less a minute, so it should be fine. If WIFI is not a problem, turn off "cellular data" and "data roaming" and use WIFI and Apps like Skype for international calls (well, if NSA is not a concern). For those who are frequent travelers and have foreign prepaid SIM cards or land line numbers, you may consider using call forwarding service provided by companies like United World Telecom, and it will forward, in my case, my AT&T calls to one of their domestic numbers (close to my billing address so it's a free local call) and then forward to any foreign number (cellular or land line number with their forwarding rates) in a supported country that I've put in my account settings, and the forwarded number can be changed at any time. PS: I am not associated with United World Telecom in any ways, and only use it as an example because I am using its international call forwarding service. |
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On 08-09-2013 00:30, xfile wrote:
If WIFI is not a problem, turn off "cellular data" and "data roaming" and use WIFI and Apps like Skype for international calls (well, if NSA is not a concern). If I remove AT&T's SIM card or turn off the phone, all calls go to myGoogle Voice (shudder! worse than NSA!) and I can listen to them (or read an abysmally poor job of transcription) via internet. -- Wes Groleau If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. |
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On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:06:58 -0400, Wes Groleau wrote:
On 08-09-2013 00:30, xfile wrote: If WIFI is not a problem, turn off "cellular data" and "data roaming" and use WIFI and Apps like Skype for international calls (well, if NSA is not a concern). If I remove AT&T's SIM card or turn off the phone, all calls go to myGoogle Voice (shudder! worse than NSA!) and I can listen to them (or read an abysmally poor job of transcription) via internet. For free. STFU, cheepo. LOL! |
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"Charles" wrote in message d... In article , nospam wrote: In article m, Gary wrote: In a few weeks we go on a cruise vacation. We fly from the USA to London and spend a couple of days in London (hopefully sleeping off the jet lag), then on to an 11-day cruise around the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland, no Wales), followed immediately by a flight back to the USA. We'd like to be able to maintain contact with our adult children for emergency purposes. We have no experience using telephones overseas. Can someone either make suggestions, or point to some good article that contains suggestions for using your phone in that manner? We'd like to avoid, if possible, astronomical charges for that previlege, but don't have the foggiest notion what to do or what to not do. if your phone is unlocked and can use a sim, get a local sim there. you'll pay local rates for calls and you will have a local number. someone calling you would need to call england. or, just use it on wifi. be absolutely sure to turn off cellular. also remove the sim (if it has one) so that there's no accidental connections. you can also use voip for international phone calls and not pay much (or at all). If they have an iPhone 5 it is not likely they have an unlocked iPhone on AT&T. They won't unlock it unless it is out of contract. In any case buying a local sim is overkill if they only want to use it for emergency purposes. Most want to use them for much more than emergency purposes, for doing all sorts of stuff like booking accommodation and other bookings etc. Text messages are the least expensive way of keeping in contact on a cruise. They can also text when the ship is at sea and on the ships cell service. |
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In article , Charles
wrote: If they have an iPhone 5 it is not likely they have an unlocked iPhone on AT&T. at&t will unlock it for international use if the customer is in good standing, or the phone might be unlocked already, such as a verizon version. They won't unlock it unless it is out of contract. In any case buying a local sim is overkill if they only want to use it for emergency purposes. buying a local sim is not overkill. they will undoubtedly want to use the phone for more than emergency purposes, including calling restaurants, tourist attractions, hotels, etc. Text messages are the least expensive way of keeping in contact on a cruise. They can also text when the ship is at sea and on the ships cell service. for incredibly ridiculous prices. |
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On 8/9/2013 1:53 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , Charles wrote: If they have an iPhone 5 it is not likely they have an unlocked iPhone on AT&T. at&t will unlock it for international use if the customer is in good standing, or the phone might be unlocked already, such as a verizon version. They won't unlock it unless it is out of contract. In any case buying a local sim is overkill if they only want to use it for emergency purposes. buying a local sim is not overkill. they will undoubtedly want to use the phone for more than emergency purposes, including calling restaurants, tourist attractions, hotels, etc. Text messages are the least expensive way of keeping in contact on a cruise. They can also text when the ship is at sea and on the ships cell service. for incredibly ridiculous prices. 50c each, which isn't all that bad, considering. Apparently you need to make sure that you turn off imessaging on iphones, because it may use data service to send texts if you do not. Here's a flyer I found with a $35 package http://www.cellularatsea.com/downloa...sportFlyer.pdf BTW Verizon has a deal for $25 for 100mb of data overseas, and it includes cruise ship data. I believe that AT&T has a similar package. Data is very expensive if you don't do the package. Bill |
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Travelling with our AT&T-based iPhone5s
In article m, Gary
wrote: In a few weeks we go on a cruise vacation. We fly from the USA to London and spend a couple of days in London (hopefully sleeping off the jet lag), then on to an 11-day cruise around the British Isles (Ireland and Scotland, no Wales), followed immediately by a flight back to the USA. We'd like to be able to maintain contact with our adult children for emergency purposes. We have no experience using telephones overseas. Can someone either make suggestions, or point to some good article that contains suggestions for using your phone in that manner? We'd like to avoid, if possible, astronomical charges for that previlege, but don't have the foggiest notion what to do or what to not do. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer, or point us to. If they text I suggest doing that for maintaining contact for emergency purposes. I add Global Messaging 50. For voice I usually purchase the AT&T Europe Travel Minutes 30. I call them and give them the dates. That way they will pro rate the fees. Those two add ons should be sufficient for emergency purposes. -- Charles |
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