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 V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
