In case you missed it from Crunch Gear, make sure you don’t do any data roaming internationally on the ATP. Unless, of course, you are made of money.
I’m not a vindictive man. I believe in sweetness and light. But I would encourage anyone with a brain who travels, especially in these trying economic times, to buy an unlocked GSM phone and purchase pay as you go SIM cards or a MaxRoam SIM and a Rebel SIMCard for the iPhone 3G. I also encourage you to use Boingo for Wi-Fi roaming in airports and, increasingly, cities. Why? Because I just paid the equivalent to a flight to Paris and back just because I wanted to use Google Maps on the iPhone 3G to find my way around gay Paree.
Don’t let that happen to you if you travel outside the US.
Personally I can’t wait to find out how much Verizon Wireless will ream charge me for using a VZ sim outside the US. Scary stuff indeed.
Update If you go over to Maxroam.com and enter ‘donburnside’ in the discount code you will get 10% off!
7 Responses to “Don’t Roam on AT&T”
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December 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 am
Really? Phone’s been out for a year and a half now, I thought that was common knowledge by now. You turn the data off when you’re traveling internationally with the ATP. I know that and I ain’t even been out of the country.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Yea, but you are smarter than the average bear.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hi Don John suggests to use MAXroam in his post As thanks to your readers I would like to offer them a 10% discount on maxroam go to maxroam.com buy a sim enter “donburnside” in the discount box and get 10% off sorry for putting an add here but just thought it may save your readers some hard earned cash
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Sweet! Thanks Pat!
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Dude, you got your own coupon code. I’ma try putting that into all kinds of sites now, see if I get any more deals.
December 6th, 2008 at 8:10 am
It’s so weird, that the iPhone has it’s own rules. and by weird I mean lame. In Milan, i just paid to go international, data and voice, and was done. That was on a blackberry curve of course. Haven’t left the US with my iPhone yet.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:55 am
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