(NOTE: You can buy SIM cards overseas for some phones but not all. It is better to go over prepared. When we arrived in Brazil we found you had to be a resident to buy a SIM card.)
Some time ago T-Mobile came out with a plan that allowed data usage overseas without large fees. To compete against this Verizon and AT&T recently launched month to month plans for International travel. You can add the plan on right before you go and then remove it once you get back.
We plan to add the International Travel Talk, Text, & Data for $40. That will give us 100 minutes of talk time, 100 text messages, and 100 MB of data. Be care when it comes to the DATA because extra DATA is expensive. 100MB is only 10% of a GIG. Use it for emergencies and not to check Facebook. Many places will offer WIFI for that.
VERIZON
ATT
I wish they would have offered something like this in the past. In the past we paid a monthly access fee ($5.99) and then would still have to pay $1.79 to $2.99 a minute for most calls and .50 cents a text message. I won't even tell you how much data cost. When we land outside the US I immediately turn my data off.
If you are not with VERIZON or AT&T check personally with your carrier to see what they offer.
Here is a sneak peak from our week in Italy and Ireland last October. SO TRUST ME - get the plan. :) We paid $143.20 for 80 minutes of talk time alone. AND let people know you will be traveling international and not to text you. If you noticed we only used a total of 50 Mega bytes of data - the 100 would have covered us. So the bottom line is the $40 would have saved us $226.00. They didn't launch the new plans until November of last year - darn it!
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