AT&T Rant - This Could happen to You
AT&T Debacle My wife and I travel frequently and consider ourselves somewhat Tech savvy. Internet communications have become a necessity for us as well as a major expense. Much of our current lifesty...
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coolmom42 wrote:
Sounds like you need to switch to Verizon. I move my data plan up and down pretty often, and the billing is always correct. If I change plans in the middle of the billing cycle, the plan prices are prorated. Plus, Verizon offers unlimited text/talk with the charge determined by your data plan. This change dropped my bill $20/month.
This is an excellent article on Cnet.com about international travel with cell phones.
And another one from Consumer Reports.
Another suggestion---if you travel a lot and generally lead active lives, chances are you don't really watch TV much. Drop your satellite/cable service and put up an antenna. You are likely to have as many as 30 over the air channels. Add a Netflix subscription to that, and you will have more TV than you ever have time to watch. I got tired of my Dish Network bill climbing relentlessly, and did that about 18 months ago. Even given the cost of putting up a large antenna with amplifier in my fringe reception area, I broke even in 6 months.
we do likewise with verizon. I have it at 2gb when we are home, the up it just before we travel. even in the middle of the month, it is prorated. Never had an issue.
Going outside the U.S. I ALWAYS call the Verizon Global service number, find out what my options are in advance of the time we leave, have them do the changes we want for international use and then the day we return get online and change them back.
And once out of the country turn off mobile data, which on our android phones is very very easy to do.
We have friends that travel with us that have ATT and do similar, so far no issues, and prorated like ours was.
