On 26th of June 2024 AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile had a major outage of their service in The EU. This left hundreds of thousands of US tourists without access to cell phone data. The cause was supposedly an outage caused by a third party provider Syniverse. We were lucky enough to not be affected as […]
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We’re currently on our summer 2024 hols and of course are taking a lot of photos. Most folks count on speedy WIFI to backup their photos and surf the web but we’re currently at a location with crappy congested WIFI. Luckily for us I brought along a 12ft ethernet cable and USB-C to ethernet adaptor. […]
Bulgaria is a lesser know EU county that is a popular budget destination for Germans looking for a beach holidays that’s more economical than say Spain or Greece. Of course being somewhat thrifty ourselves, we ended up flying to Bulgaria via Leipzig as part of our 2024 European vacation thanks to my mother-in-law funding a […]
An Inside Edition piece highlights the need setup a plan for your cellphone data before traveling to Europe. The poor bloke was vacationing in Switzerland and managed to use 9.5GB of data. His plan, see our list of T-Mobile plans for 2024 here, was probably not a higher tier one that included Switzerland but was […]
In this blog post we’ll go over the top three tips to lock down your iPhone so it won’t consume all your data in a short period of time. #1 Low Data mode Low Data mode is your friend – see the article on low data mode at Apple.com. With iOS 13 and later, you […]
In the run-up to the Paris Olympics let’s look at the main carriers in France and see who offers the best signal / service in Paris France. France has 4 main mobile operators: Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom, and Free. Here is what I gleaned from some inter web searches and the forums (reddit/the local): Orange […]
So you’ve dowloaded and installed a shiny new eSIM and are ready to watch one of the four new sports featured at the 2024 Olympics – Breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing. In this blog post I’m going to help you hang on to that bucket of 5, 10 or 20GB of data and not […]
Ok, please excuse the clickbait title but there is a little method in my madness. It all has to do with international roaming and what happens if you don’t arrange to have a data travel plan with your US carrier once you’re on the ground in Merry England or any other non US location. Of […]
Verizon just unleash a new Unlimited Ultimate plan with what looks like a good amount of international data included, 10GB per month. If you’re a frequent international traveller it may work but for the average person the whopping $90 per month for a single line is crazy – that’s over $1000 per year. That’s a […]
US Mobile has eSim plans to rival Airalo? US Mobile, a T-Mobile / Verizon MVNO announced a new eSIM data plans (May 2023) called Go Global with the ability to purchase stand alone eSIM data plans that you can add to your existing non-US Mobile plans. Now you can just add a data plan like […]