Global phones?

day

I'm leaving for Europe next week and my phone company does not have service there (thanks Verizon!). They told me I could rent a global phone, but it's $1.50 a minute incoming/outgoing. I'm wondering if there's any other options like buying a disposable phone there. Any Euro heads or savvy travellers plaese to help a brother out.

ToccuDomu

I'm leaving for Europe next week and my phone company does not have service there (thanks Verizon!). They told me I could rent a global phone, but it's $1.50 a minute incoming/outgoing. I'm wondering if there's any other options like buying a disposable phone there.
Any Euro heads or savvy travellers plaese to help a brother out.

If you have a tri-band phone with a SIM card, you might try just buying some pay-as-you-go minutes on a new SIM when you arrive. If your phone numbers/email addresses/etc are stored in your phones memory, all that info will be available to you when using the phone, though your phone number will change.

ZEN2

I'd just get a disposable phone for while you're there. Virgin Mobile is pretty cheap from what I remember.


It'll also help keep McNulty off the stash.

On_the_Red_Clay

D,

you can always pick up a pay-as-you-go / prepaid phone for around ???40, but my guess is that using an Euro mobile phone is gonna cost at least

$1.50 a minute incoming/outgoing.

To call to the USA. Texting is affordable, but the talking is always gonna be cheaper on a landline. Hope that helps,

RC

day

D,

you can always pick up a pay-as-you-go / prepaid phone for around ???40, but my guess is that using an Euro mobile phone is gonna cost at least

$1.50 a minute incoming/outgoing.

To call to the USA. Texting is affordable, but the talking is always gonna be cheaper on a landline. Hope that helps,

RC

Cool, that helps actually. I'm more concerned with being in contact with people over there as I can call home from any landline phone.

I'm looking into t-mobile right now, but anyway it goes I'm gonna be comin' out the pocket

On_the_Red_Clay

I'm more concerned with being in contact with people over there as I can call home from any landline phone.
I'm looking into t-mobile right now, but anyway it goes I'm gonna be comin' out the pocket

Than buying one / seeing if one of the promoters has one lying around that you can use is the way to go.

b/w

Goes without saying that we're expecting a full tour report!

Delay

European cell phones are cracked out, day. it's mega expensive to call landline to cell there. i tried to do it via payphones a lot but nearly lost my mind when my conversations would get cut off after depositing like 5 euro. definitely get a local pay-as-you-go type deal.