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seanroberts196 t1_itzq0tj wrote

Is it that expensive to use your current plan abroad? Mine in the uk includes international roaming for free and i just use my existing phone minutes and texts, along with a few Gb per day. I pay £25 a month so it seems more hassle for me to get a new SIM card and then tell everyone who i might need to contact me what my number is.

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gregra193 t1_itzsgr7 wrote

OP should consider T-Mobile or Google Fi as a carrier.

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Yo_2T t1_iu0sjsw wrote

For US carriers, yes. Typically they'll let you roam with extremely throttled speeds (like 128kbps or 256kbps), and you can pay something like $10/day for high speed data (Verizon will be 500MB for that). T-Mobile gives you 5GB of high speed data roaming all over the world on their most expensive plan, which not everyone is willing to pay for.

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