Feb 08 2009
Travel Tips: Using Mobile Phone in Another Country
When you do travel, especially business travel, you still need to be contacted. Of course hotel is the main place to be contacted, but when you move from one meeting to another meeting in various places of course you are hard to be contacted.
When using a mobile phone abroad you have two options-the first permanently use your SIM card, if you have a service provider and roaming services to enable your service. Other options are buying a service with a local number and you will pay according to the local costs.
Loss of use is the high cost of roaming calls and of course also will be charged when you call someone. For example, you are in Italy for business purposes and there is a meeting 11 minutes early. If the person you want to meet want to change the meeting time so he had to call your international number, so if your SIM card from your local country, the business partners you need to make a connection to your country and pay for that, you also have to pay part of the phone referred from your country to Italy. Really that will be very expensive.
Thus, the easiest and cheapest option is to buy a local number to replace your local SIM card. By doing this, people who want to change the meeting time just need to call your local number and you should not pay anything more. Plus, when you call, you will pay only the local cost.
Set the service to a new SIM card mobile phone is easy and only takes a few minutes. All you need is your mobile phone, passport and money to purchase the new card.
There are many service providers in Italy that offers the service, the service is more or less the same but with variations in the price of different services, so it’s up to you to decide which is better for you.
If you wonder why buying a SIM card only need to bring your passport. The reason is simple
but it is very important. Your identity or passport number will be used if your phone is stolen, lost or your SIM card get damage. If that happened, you can transfer your number to new number and your old will be turned off.
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