Best phone service for the road?

If you still have the old AT&T phone laying around you should be able to use it over seas, or if somone else has an old one laying around that you could borrow, unless you are going to be there for a long time and would rather not go that route. Google the use of AT&T phones overseas and see what you find out, it seems like I remember reading about a fairly cheap work around, but I can't remember the details.

 

I guess I should clarify that, I am talking about using the GSM capability of the old AT&T phone, from what I remember reading, there is some type of prepaid card available, but I can't remember the details. I know that if you still used AT&T while overseas that it would be very expensive.

 

Here is one example, I think there are many, so shop around.

http://www.roamsimple.com/gsm/international-sim-cards.aspx

 

I dont mind being out of touch for a while, but when I would shut down at that casino in klamath for the night with no data..
Let's just say it makes for a long night

 

I was in WV not long ago and suddenly the 4g was displaying 3g, then 2G in some areas. I called and complained and was told they were updating some towers in the area I was in and the 4G should be up shortly.

 

If you are running as hard as you need to so you can afford a 4G data phone, you won't have time to use it enough to justify the cost. If you have time to use it, you won't be able to afford it. Especially since you can't get unlimited data on new contracts through any major carrier that I am aware of. Sprint says they have unlimited data, but check the fine print....4G has a limit, just 3g and slower is unlimited. Save some money, go to Walmart and get Straighttalk. Only 30 or 45 a month, works almost everywhere my AT&T phone worked, just as good call quality, and if money ever gets tight for you it wont mess with your credit score because it is prepaid. Also, there are no early termination fees if you decide you dont want it anymore. Just my 2c.

 

I also had an unlimited mobile broadband plan for years. When AT&T bought Alltel in my area, I still had unlimited plan, until we needed to update our phones. Then AT&T wanted to change us to a limited plan. So we dumped them. Now I use Pilot/Flying J WiFi for my internet. Yea, it is limited because you have to be at one to use it, but as long as you can get a good signal, it is actually faster than my mobile broadband was, and at 19 bucks or so a month, is a lot cheaper. It is what I am using right now.

 

Verizon is by far the best out there.

 

I have done a little research on this point, and while it is true that GSM is the technology used in Europe, the frequencies used are different than those in the States. Unless that old AT&T phone happened to be a dual network One that was designed to pick up the transmissions of towers on the European bandwidth, I don't think a different SIM card is going to help.

Good luck.

 

Good point, research, research.