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To: Carolyn who wrote (994)	7/1/2018 3:07:09 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) of 1002

Traveling abroad with a US mobile phone ... << One note, perhaps I am overstepping my bounds, to consider is international travel. >> Hi Carolyn: Thanks for touching bases. You're not overstepping any bounds by any means. What to use and how to use it cost effectively overseas to communicate back stateside and enable individuals from the States to communicate with you is a subject near and dear to my heart. It can be a bit tricky. I spent a fair amount of time in Europe (primarily UK, France, Germany and Italy) on business each year with an occasional trip to South Africa or the Caribbean for the better part of a decade beginning in the mid-nineties and maintained both a US mobile phone and mobile subscription and a GSM based worldphone and Voicestream/T-mobile subscription for most of that time. I supplemented that occasionally with a country specific SIM for the worldphone. For several of those years in the late nineties I worked for the US subsidiary of a multinational corporation headquartered above Marseille at the foot of the Riviera and was frequently there for seminars and meetings. For the most part my overseas mobile telephony was voice or SMS/EMS/MMS text not data. Few people had my worldphone number but contacted my US secretary/admin who I touched bases with daily if they needed to reach me. I've only been overseas once in the last 10 years. She'd alert me to urgent calls. There's a relatively recent article on International Phone Plans here: >> Best International Phone Plans: What Travelers Need to Know by Don Reisinger January 26, 2018 tomsguide.com [article text at link above] I haven't heard too much positive about Verizon's TravelPass but then again I haven't heard anything about it lately and since Europe dropped roaming charges. What I do know is that Verizon's 4G LTE smartphones on postpaid plans are generally provided unlocked and work well with 3rd party SIMs used for overseas travel. These are Verizon's Mobile Device Unlocking Policies: verizon.com I'll likely add comments on overseas travel in the future. Cheers, - Eric L. -

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