[Hidden-tech] iPhone travel questions for Ireland

[Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill]

Tom,

It depends on exactly what your goals are.  If the phone is out of 2 year
contract, you can get AT&T to unlock the phone for international travel.
This would allow you to buy a SIM card for use in Ireland and use their
cell towers. This is by far the cheapest option as the SIM cards over there
are pretty cheap and come with a decent pay as you go plan.

If you are under contract still you have two options:
1.  Talk to AT&T and setup some sort of international roaming plan for the
month. They do have options.
2.  Turn off cellular data on the phone and disable roaming (put it in air
plane mode and turn wifi on works pretty well for this)  And you can just
use wifi networks. This will allow texting over imessage only (other
iphones) Facetime, and hangouts etc.   If you sign up for a free Google
Voice number you could even do free texting with the google voice or
hangouts app.

Good luck!

Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill
Green Earth Computers
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kiernan at greenearthpc.us
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions &
Folktography <tomadams at gmail.com> wrote:

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> my son is going to Ireland with a school group in April. I'm wondering
> what I need to do (if anything) for him to communicate with us using his
> iphone/ AT&T. I think he should just be able to use FaceTime since he'll
> have good access to wifi most of the time. Are there any international
> charges I need to be aware of.... thanks for any tips you can lend...
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