Roaming overseas
I have a Blackberry Bold 9650 and was thinking of purchasing a prepaid local SIM card when I travel to Israel. I found out today that neither AT&T nor T-Mobile will allow the transmission of data on their prepaid SIM cards for foreigners traveling to the U.S. That got me wondering whether it would be the same with regard to foreign cellphone service providers. If so, then I can think of only two practical choices if I want to take advantage of inexpensive phone calls while overseas but still want to receive My data. These two choices are:
1. Purchase a cheap unlocked GSM phone to use for phonecalls where I install a local SIM card and sign up for the Verizon international roaming package to receive my data on my Blackberry utilizing my Ve...
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1. Purchase a cheap unlocked GSM phone to use for phonecalls where I install a local SIM card and sign up for the Verizon international roaming package to receive my data on my Blackberry utilizing my Ve...
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go to your connections on BB and turn off radio and everything except wifi. Then you can just use that to grab your emails when in your hotel or whatever...
Then I would just buy a cheap ass prepaid phone to make calls over there...
Well that is what I would do...but I am a cheapass
Then I would just buy a cheap ass prepaid phone to make calls over there...
Well that is what I would do...but I am a cheapass
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This is what I'm leaning toward. I have one question, though, concerning your response. Why is it necessary to turn everything off except wifi? If I did that, I wouldn't obtain phone calls. Also, if the prepaid international SIM doesn't accept data, why would it be necessary to turn everything off? Thanks.
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I am paranoid... so that would insure I get no roaming chargers. Your phone shouldn't work but there are a lot of areas with cdma roaming so I wouldn't want my BB to be receiving data while traveling. So for me I would play it safe and turn everything off. I know it probably wouldn't happen, but to be 100% safe I would just leave the wifi radio on only.
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