ATTENTION U.S. iPhone users! Best network?

[BHP41]

That leaves AT&T as your ONLY option if you need voice and 3G data. Here's a link to their GoPhone prepaid plans webpage. As you'll see, prepaid data (required for a smartphone) is pretty steep ($15 for 100 MB, $25 for 500 MB) though probably cheaper than what you'd pay using your home carrier overseas.

If you think you'll have access to a lot of Wifi, T-Mobile is best, otherwise you're best/only real choice is AT&T.

This is the only part of your letter that has any relevance to him using his iPhone over here. As far as useful info, many have posted, ATT or tmobile. That's it. Why go further??

OP, Trust me, stick with ATT. You're not going be stuck at mcdonalds or the hotel while you're on vacation. So saying you're going to be around wifi all the time may be true but your not going be connected to it.

For as much as it cost to take a vacation like this, I think another 50-100 is worth it to do exactly what you want. Tweet, FB, maps, whatever.

 

[peanutismint]

Cool, thanks for the informative post, tbayrgs. Yes, as I suspected, love em or hate em, AT&T are probably the best carrier given my circumstances. I've just live-chatted with one of their representatives who basically told me I could get their cheapest talk package ($40) plus a text addon ($10) plus a data addon ($15) but as you can see things are really starting to add up here!

I leave on July 23rd - thanks for the offer BHP41! Let me know if you manage to find anything out. Otherwise I'll pop into an AT&T store when I arrive, OR take TEG's advice and hit up a Radio Shack and see if they can get me a better deal with a GoPhone....

Thanks America; sorry about the oil spill, and all that stuff with the tea in Boston....our bad.......

 

[awadeee]

sorry about the oil spill, and all that stuff with the tea in Boston....our bad.......

 

[tbayrgs]

This is the only part of your letter that has any relevance to him using his iPhone over here. As far as useful info, many have posted, ATT or tmobile. That's it. Why go further??

OP, Trust me, stick with ATT. You're not going be stuck at mcdonalds or the hotel while you're on vacation. So saying you're going to be around wifi all the time may be true but your not going be connected to it.

For as much as it cost to take a vacation like this, I think another 50-100 is worth it to do exactly what you want. Tweet, FB, maps, whatever.

Dude, chill out, no need to get defensive, just trying to lay it all out for the OP. And when I started typing my post, he hadn't gotten the complete picture (hence the "is T-Mobile GSM rather than CDMA question posed by the OP). It's easy for us here in the US to quick be able to pick out the correct info from each post since it's so familiar, just trying to put all the useful info into one post.

 

[BHP41]

Dude, chill out, no need to get defensive, just trying to lay it all out for the OP. And when I started typing my post, he hadn't gotten the complete picture (hence the "is T-Mobile GSM rather than CDMA question posed by the OP). It's easy for us here in the US to quick be able to pick out the correct info from each post since it's so familiar, just trying to put all the useful info into one post.

No doubt.

 

[Daniel L]

AT&T all the way. You'd be missing out on 3g calling+data with T-Mobile. The $50 for unlimited prepaid text/calling is a steal. I don't know where you guys are getting your info but no 2 year contract is required for GoPhone plans.

I just came back from visiting Europe and wish that Europe had a plan with unlimited calling + data from one provider.

Download the Yelp app to your cell phone and use it to look up reviews of restaurants you'll be visiting. It's very popular here in California.

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Thanks America; sorry about the oil spill, and all that stuff with the tea in Boston....our bad.......

Like the Gulf was that clean before, and that people REALLY swam there...

Don't apologize for the tea... I think that was your tea anyhow. Besides, Boston is a coffee town these days.

 

[Ach111es]

It was Verizon, until yesterday...they just moved to tiered data. so I'd say AT&T

 

[forcetactic]

If you don't need data, you could try T-mobile's even more plus plans. Cheap pricing + no commitment. You could also add edge data for $10 for 200MB then throttled

 

[timeconsumer]

I'll be spending the majority of my time in a small town near San Diego in California, probably heading north to the LA/Anaheim areas for a few days; I realise coverage may be spotty out in the boonies ;-) but should be more than adequate towards the cities?? And as somebody mentioned before, your country's a whole lot bigger than ours, hence less towers/worse coverage....

I'd recommend AT&T like everyone else said. AT&T is fine in Anaheim, usually good in LA depending on where specifically and had to check with a friend for San Diego but said he hasn't had any issues there. So yes, go with AT&T.