We are heading to Europe (I know this is a mexico site) and was wondering if anyone had any experience with phone service in that area....Phone systems like Mobal, Telestial, Roam Simple or similer phones...thanks for any information
I've not been to Europe in quite a long time, but the last time I was there my AT&T phone worked just fine. You may need to contact your carrier to see what types of international plans and/or options they have to reduce roaming charges.
AT&T or T-Mobile phones will work in most countries around the world. Verizon and Sprint also have a couple dual mode phones that will work also. Call your carrier and see if yours is one of them. And as stated get a reasonable international calling package added to your plan.
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If your phone has a sim card,you can get a new card when you are over there, with a pay as you go plan. the new sim will have a local # all you need do is switch back to your old sim on your return
Don't buy a new phone or sim card until you know that your old one won't work. Call your carrier and ask first!
My Verizon worked fine in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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I tired a British sim card in my AT&T phone and it would not work, so i ended up buying a cheap phone for 20 pounds. It was a lebara Sim, very cheap and it worked everywhere i went with cheap calling back to north America. English phone number.
A1B00902 wrote: If your phone has a sim card,you can get a new card when you are over there, with a pay as you go plan. the new sim will have a local # all you need do is switch back to your old sim on your return
We did that last month in England. At Manchester Airport one of the carriers ( www.lycamobile.co.uk/www.lycamobile.co.uk/ )had a small booth with a special offer: Free sim card with 2 pounds of time credit! We bought another 20 pounds worth at a shop and still had 14 pounds of time when we returned home 4 weeks later! Calls are very cheap, even back to Canada and the US and much of the rest of the world.
A few years ago we borrowed a sim card from a nephew in Paris and put 20 Euros on it. It worked fine in France, Morocco and Italy.
NOTE! Make sure that the phone is "unlocked", that it will accept a sim from a carrier other than your contract one.
Also make sure you have a phone that will work in Europe. I think you will need a quad band phone. Older phones my not have the frequencies used there. At least that was the case a few years ago.
I use the same phone (an older Motorola) in Mexico, USA and Canada. When we cross into the USA the AT&T sim goes in, at the Mexican border it's the Telcel sim and back in Canada its Rogers.
Quote: NOTE! Make sure that the phone is "unlocked", that it will accept a sim from a carrier other than your contract one.
This is critical, no point buying a SIM card if your USA service supplied you with a locked phone.
Happened to me in MX. I had a ATT phone with Sim Card, bought a MX Sim card but my phone asked for a password. So could not use it.
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