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jayfurrQuestion for people who've visited France but wanted to stay reachable by friends, family, and work back in the USA: did you rent a cell phone that would work on European networks (the kind that gives your American associates a local number to call that rings through to your cell), did you buy a regular burn phone once you got to Europe, are you one of those lucky sorts whose US cell carrier supports phones that work on both US and European bands, or what?
We have service through Verizon, so no luck there -- and while we could certainly buy a burn phone once in France we're not sure if it would be cost effective for people to call us on one, not to mention that we'd have to send out mass emails to everyone once we got the thing giving them the number.
A rental phone that we had before we left would seem like a workable option but there are so many carriers out on the Net and many of them seem frankly kind of dubious -- we really don't know what's the best option.
Parenthetically, we don't like the "none of the above, don't have a phone" option that free-thinkers might recommend. We need to be reachable for a variety of reasons.
But otherwise, we'd be very grateful to hear your suggestions.
We have service through Verizon, so no luck there -- and while we could certainly buy a burn phone once in France we're not sure if it would be cost effective for people to call us on one, not to mention that we'd have to send out mass emails to everyone once we got the thing giving them the number.
A rental phone that we had before we left would seem like a workable option but there are so many carriers out on the Net and many of them seem frankly kind of dubious -- we really don't know what's the best option.
Parenthetically, we don't like the "none of the above, don't have a phone" option that free-thinkers might recommend. We need to be reachable for a variety of reasons.
But otherwise, we'd be very grateful to hear your suggestions.
