Hi Andrew,
I agree with Jonathan. Having a local SIM/number with a prepaid data package is the way to go. I just came back from Thailand and since I have an unlocked iPhone anyways, it was super easy. All the major providers had booths at the airport in Bangkok. I had asked on the Today in iOS podcast if people had suggestions and Rob who does the podcast, read out half a dozen replies and I picked the provider which most people recommended. Getting a SIM card with 1 Gig of prepaid 3G data and a bunch of local minutes was about $25, I wish they had deals like this here in Canada and the US. I signed up for a Canadian VoIP inbound number with a company called Flynumber, it costs $2.95 US a month and if you sign up with a company like VoIP Stunt, VoIP Buster, VoIP Chief etc. they do unlimited forwarding to your VoIP user name for free. I then used Groundwire, the business class SIP client from Acrobits on my iPhone and it works beautifully. The app doesn't even have to run in the background and if a call comes in you get a push notification that somebody is calling and you can pick up the call. Groundwire is a $10 app, but it's fully accessible and for $3 or 4 less you can also get the regular Acrobits app which for most people probably does the trick. I paid my VoIP number for 3 months, but I think I'll renew it yearly after that because this works so well that I think I'll keep that number and use it for other trips and this way friends and family have a number where they can reach me anywhere in the world. If anybody considers a trip to Thailand which, by the way, is definitely worth a trip or 3 as long as you like heat, I had good 3G coverage in Bangkok, Chiang Mai (northern Thailand) and on the island of Phuket, away from the cities it was mostly Edge. Best regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 12:26 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Using the iphone overseas Hi Andrew, personally, I'd pick up a local sim in the country you're in, and go right on using the iPhone at local rates. In the US and UK there are good iPhone prepay deals. You can forward calls from your Australian number to your temporary US one, so the only thing you'd be missing out on is texts to your Ausie number. And if most of the people you text also have iPhones, they can iMessage you at your email address when your foreign carrier SIM is in the phone. You'll save a lot of money and it's great to have local data for navigation apps etc. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 24/04/2013, at 8:37 PM, Andrew Head <ath...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: Hi all, I am from Australia and Later this year, I'm planning to travel to England and America. I am using an iphone 5 running the latest version of IOS, and was just wondering about any useful info I should know about taking and using the phone overseas. I plan to take my old iphone 4 over and put a sim card in that to use for phone calls etc, I prefer to keep the Australian sim right where it is in the iphone 5, so it isn't lost and thought a spare old phone would be put to good use. I'm assuming if I take the iphone 5, I can connect it to a wireless network and continue to use all my other apps, minus the phone of course? Since my original sim is staying in I won't be able to use it over 3 G just wireless? 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