Bringing an iPhone oversea

[aaronchow]

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I'm loaning my iPhone to my wife when she travels oversea later this month. I don't want her to access the web via WiFi only. So is turning cellular data and 3G enough?

 

[aaronchow]

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Should I also turn off FaceTime and all notifications? And should I purchase a few international data roaming just in case?

 

[SAD*FACED*CLOWN]

Sheesh...why not just relegate her to airplane mode?

 

[aaronchow]

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But she will get a prepaid sim (voice only, micro-sim) to use as a regular cell phone. Any suggestion? I dont want any big bills from AT&T

 

[aeromac]

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But she will get a prepaid sim (voice only, micro-sim) to use as a regular cell phone. Any suggestion? I dont want any big bills from AT&T

Well the moment you take the at&t sim out, you won't be charged any bills from at&t

The voice only micro sim also will not be enable to download anything there since it's voice only.. whichever country she's going, it could be very cheap to get a prepaid sim with data plan though.. I remember you can get a prepaid line from Wind IT for example and it was just +9€ for 1gb internet..

 

[old-wiz]

Unless you have jailbroken/unlocked the iPhone, it won't work on other carriers.

 

[aaronchow]

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Great. Problem solved Thank you all.

 

[bukzin]

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Great. Problem solved Thank you all.

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So which options did you/her take?

Let us know how it went and what it cost.

Thanks!

 

[Mliii]

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Should I also turn off FaceTime?

FaceTime is wifi only. I don't see a need to turn that off.