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Originally Posted by BlueSideUp
How does this buying SIM cards thing work? My wife and I are traveling next month in Italy, Spain, and France. I checked with AT&T and they pointed me towards an international roaming plan, still not cheap by any means but it is better. We both have Motorola Q9s but really only need one phone to stay in contact with our business.
And yes it is a semi-hijacking post.
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SIM cards are vastly cheaper than any int'l. plan you can get in the US. Just buy one at the first gas station you come across once in country and ask someone to show you how to program it for you. It will change your phone number and in some places every new SIM card you buy changes your phone number. But it's still dirt cheap. In China they have phone book-sized lists of available phone numbers becaiuse they're so superstitious about lucky and unlucky numbers. The US is soooo behind the rest of the world when it comes to cell phones. But that's because it was always so cheap here for landlines, whereas it was not in Europe and in China they got cell phones before land lines were common. So we've lagged behind a bit there.