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Aug 7, 2022 | 10:12 am

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Originally Posted by Finkface

I have Google Voice, which is my main US number. It is cheaper just to buy a local data sim or in this case, Airalo or Three/Orange etc. I can call anywhere in Canada/US from my GV number (over wifi or data) as if I was in the US so that's all I really need.

I did contact Three and they said these pay as you go sims are not charged for data roaming in the EU. Hopefully they are correct. Just to be safe, I will activate in the UK between flights. Not sure about voice calls but I don't need that anyway as all my calls are through GV.

I'm with 3 and although I am grandfathered into "Go roam" on PAYM, it always struck me as odd that PAYG had free roaming but PAYM didn't. Anyway, I will leave them when the contract is up as they have gone from the best for roaming to one of the worst imho.

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