Study Abroad and Phone Service

nyumom
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:26:46 +0000

Both of my kids just went through traveling in Europe with cell phones. My D ended up taking her US phone which by the way had amazingly clear reception (much better than here and without any dropped calls), but we just received our cell phone bill, and yes, it was fairly expensive. She was supposed to change her sim card when she arrived in Europe, but she thought for some reason that she didn’t need to - she probably didn’t realize how much we would be talking. On the other hand, my S was given a phone with an international number, and then he bought a phone card to use with it. If she goes abroad again, which is probably going to be sooner than later, then she’ll either have to buy or rent a phone overseas and buy a phone card or take her own phone but this time change the sim card. Another option would be to talk through the computer using SKYPE, which seems to be fairly popular.