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How To Travel The World And Not Get Slammed With Roaming Charges

Published on 18 July 13
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Frequent overseas travelers often find it difficult to avoid cell phone roaming charges. Once they come back to the United States, they open their cell phone bills to find hundreds of dollars in roaming charges tacked on to their monthly usage amount.

Next time you travel overseas, use the following cell phone tips so you won't get slammed with outrageous roaming charges:

Be Aware of Your Rates

Being aware of how much you may be charged if you use your cell phone overseas is essential to avoid roaming charges. Ask your service provider if international calling is included in your monthly plan, and what the per-minute rate is for making overseas calls.

Small fonts and terminology that most people aren't familiar with plague cell phone contracts and makes it hard for the common man to understand. Take your contract to your service provider to have them answer any relevant questions.

Buy a Local SIM Card

If you own a GSM phone with an Android OS, you should be able to use it with any local SIM card around the world.

SIM cards can normally be bought for less than $10, depending on where you buy it from. You can then make international calls to the folks back home by purchasing a prepaid calling card and using it with the SIM card. This is by far the cheapest way to make international calls from another country. You can get international sim cards from Bell.ca.

Use Skype

Consumers who use an Android operating system should download the Skype app before they catch their flight overseas. This app allows consumers to make affordable calls to their friends and family members back home.

When using Skype, travelers should always be connected to a wireless network. Using Skype over a regular 3G or 4G network can be a costly mistake.

Try to Text Instead of Call

In terms of cell phone usage, calling is always the most expensive way to communicate. Try to avoid using your cell phone to make calls as much as possible. Instead, send text messages whenever you need to contact someone in the United States. While you may have to pay for each text message, the per-message rate will be much cheaper than roaming charges.

Research Alternative VoIP Options

If you use a smartphone with an Android operating system, consider downloading VoIP mobile applications. Skype is one of the most popular VoIP applications currently available, however, there are dozens of other more affordable alternatives in the Android market.

If you do decide to download an alternative VoIP application, make sure the people you plan to communicate with have downloaded the same application.

Once you're familiar with the many ways to avoid overseas roaming charges, you may be able to contact people in the U.S. without spending any money at all. The main factor that will help in totally eliminating overseas roaming charges is being aware of how you are using your cell phone and whether or not you're currently connected to the internet when using mobile applications.

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