Verizon Travelpass - $5/day or $10/day -use existing data/voice/plan in 140 countries
May 14, 2016, 12:18 pm
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What networks were y'all roaming in or did your phone just say Verizon or extended and also did you get 4G/LTE? Interested for Mexico the UK and Australia but down to know for whatever countries as well. Planning on using it on a cruise to Cozumel Honduras and Belize with an iPhone 6.
May 15, 2016, 7:37 am
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There IS an option for $40, 140 countries
International Travel 100 Talk, Text and Data
100 minutes
100 sent messages
Unlimited incoming messages
100 MB data allowance
*Overages:
$25.00 per 100 MB
$0.25 per minute
$0.25 per message sent
May 15, 2016, 1:15 pm
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What networks were y'all roaming in or did your phone just say Verizon or extended and also did you get 4G/LTE? Interested for Mexico the UK and Australia but down to know for whatever countries as well. Planning on using it on a cruise to Cozumel Honduras and Belize with an iPhone 6.
May 15, 2016, 8:33 pm
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May 16, 2016, 7:56 am
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Just use the Personal Hotspot app on the iPhone to connect the iPad to the internet. That way you can use both devices while paying for only one.
The reason I asked is that our current plan is 12GB shared with our various devices. We will be in Europe for a month and had planned on buying a local SIM card but even if we use this everyday, which we hope to avoid with wifi, then the total cost for 12GB would only be about $300 which is not bad at all.
May 16, 2016, 9:08 am
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I just used it in Denmark and Norway last week. Works fine. I was able to roam on most of the carriers...in Denmark it latched on to 3, but Telia also worked. In Norway it latched on to Telenor.
I had LTE on 3 and Telenor but only 3G on Telia.
Verizon sent me texts about an hour before my 24 hours were up letting me know, but I'm not sure how well their billing systems keep track since I left my phone off for half a day at a time and the next reminder text would come through as if I hadn't turned it off.
I had LTE on 3 and Telenor but only 3G on Telia.
Verizon sent me texts about an hour before my 24 hours were up letting me know, but I'm not sure how well their billing systems keep track since I left my phone off for half a day at a time and the next reminder text would come through as if I hadn't turned it off.
May 16, 2016, 8:11 pm
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Without any plan, incoming text messages are 5 cents and outgoing texts are 50 cents. So $10/day only makes sense if you are planning to text frequently or make voice calls.
May 16, 2016, 9:23 pm
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May 16, 2016, 10:16 pm
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Actually, it is only $2.05 per MB, but that still works out to $12,300 for the 6 GB that I can access from my US domestic plan for $10 a day.
Then there's the cost of the calls, a bargain at $1.79 a minute.
Here's the chart:
Then there's the cost of the calls, a bargain at $1.79 a minute.
Here's the chart:
May 16, 2016, 10:36 pm
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The newer iPhone models have both GSM and CDMA radios in them. My iPhone works on Verizon via CDMA normally in the U.S. But can work on any GSM network overseas, given the appropriate SIM.
Verizon has roaming agreements with various (GSM based) networks in other countries. There is no "Verizon UK" for instance.
Verizon has roaming agreements with various (GSM based) networks in other countries. There is no "Verizon UK" for instance.
The problem is that Japan uses different cell phone standards, so most foreign phones don't work there. There might be a couple other countries that are exceptions in this way.
May 16, 2016, 10:39 pm
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Is this per day, per month, or until you use it up to the limit? Can the 100 minutes be combined over the 140 countries or does each ned country mean a new $40 charge?
May 17, 2016, 7:23 am
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