Your best option, imo, is service from T-Mobile in the U.S. Your phone calls in Europe will be $0.20 per minute. Same price applies for each text message.
You'll also be able to use data services, though you won't have the fastest speeds without paying. I have found the default data speeds quite workable for email and web browsing. I've even found them acceptable for streaming my favorite baseball team's audio broadcasts while in Europe--though staying up that late for games may put a crimp into your traveling plans! <grin> Janina Kevin Gibbs writes: > > > Guys, > > > Need info on best option for telecom management when traveling from the US > to the Netherlands and Germany. My wife and I have iPhones which are > unlocked, to the best of our knowledge. Ideally, we need voice and data at > a reasonable cost in Holland and Germany for three weeks. > > > As I see it, our options are: > > > 1. Buy two local SIMM cards at Amsterdam airport with a large enough data > allowance to send SMS, make local phone calls, upload photos to > FB/Instagram and get directions here and there while traveling. > > > 2. Get two data only cards from a purveyor like Gig Sky and use Skype for > the voice/SMS component. Need info on just how or whether one can forward > an iPhone to a Skype number. May not want to get any unwanted messages > from people in the States because it’s election silly season. On the other > hand, would want to get message from home if house was in trouble while > gone. decisions, decisions. > > > 3. By a My Fi box, also with a local SIMM, and tether our phones to that. > Turn Cellular Data off on phones and kill all push notifications that would > otherwise be active in Wi-Fi environments to prevent unnecessary data > consumption. Again, use Skype or Google Voice or something else to have > voice and SMS capabilities without buying an international voice and data > plan from AT&T, which I assume is cost prohibitive in even the best case. > > > Sorry this is such a long message. Trying to imagine all the scenarios > from which I have to choose. Have to make a decision fairly soon. Hope > one of you will answer. > > > Please CC reply to author in case I don’t get the chance to log into Google > Groups to follow this message. My preferences are set to No Mail because I > visit this list so infrequently. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Kevin > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
