VZW Business is a pain when traveling. I just switched to them from T-Mobile who has terrible coverage in my local area in the states. My plan was to buy an eSim here in the UK as I have always done and use that data and piggyback VZW on that. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. VZW's suggestion was to live in airplane mode while here. I did follow the guidelines from Airalo
here and after doing so I got this popup...
Thought that was good, until several hours of silence I decided to turn on my VZW eSim and see what happens... as expected, a flood of messages came in.
I really need to be in contact all the time, can't jump through hoops turning on/off services to retrieve messages. For the moment, I just cut to the chase and added the international monthly plan ($88.00) Since I'm here another couple weeks, it's cheaper than $10 per day
A bundle of minutes and unlimited texts & data to use in 210+ countries and destinations
Talk: Get 250 minutes to use while traveling.
Additional minutes are charged $0.25/min.
Data: Get 20GB high speed data with unlimited
3G data thereafter.
Text: You'll also get unlimited texts.
This plan will expire after one month.
This may be my best option moving forward, or maybe I can just split off my line from my business account and get the (personal) unlimited ultimate. Most times when here in the UK, I have WiFI access so the reduced data on that plan may suffice.
Other than that it would be beck to T-Mobile or take a look at GoogleFI or AT&T's offerings... (haven't bothered to look)
Am I doing it wrong?