iPhone 8/Plus Smartphone plan for vacation

[srsub3]

Hi... long story short I am coming back in the US for 2 weeks... currently I am living in Europe. I am planning to put a prepaid sim in my iPhone... which is the best plan I can buy? In the past I was using TMo service but it seems that there is no longer a “travel plan”. Every help is appreciated

 

[Breaking Good]

I'm going to assume that you purchased your iPhone in Europe and that it will not function on Verizon or Sprint because they are CDMA.

With that assumption in mind, I would recommend walking into a cricket wireless store and buying whatever plan that fits the amount of data you expect to use while in the states.

Cricket Wireless is owned by AT&T and works on AT&T's network. They are AT&T's "budget" prepaid plan.

If you wanted to, you could go to a Web site like NumberBarn and buy a phone number now so you can let people know in advance what number you will have when you get back to the U.S. Then you could port that number from NumberBarn over to cricket when you actually arrive.

If felt like holding onto that number, you could port the number back to NumberBarn when you left and save it for the next time you travel back to the U.S.

 

[srsub3]

Thank u for your reply. So you don’t suggest tmo anymore? My iPhone is a tmo... i bought it last year when I was still living in the us

 

[se95dah]

T-mobile do still have an international tourist package for 30usd. You get 2gb of data and a load of minutes and it lasts 21 days. Details here:

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-26344

 

[srsub3]

Thanks this seems good

 

[AppleHaterLover]

You can drop by a T-Mobile store when you arrive and get a normal pre-paid line for the month that will have a truckload more data than that

 

[Breaking Good]

If T-Mo works for you in the areas you expect to travel then I would stick with T-Mo.

Is your phone SIM unlocked? If not, you may not have a choice but to use T-Mo.

You could also investigate Mint Mobile which is a T-Mo MVNO. But you would need to order a SIM from them.

In the past T-Mo stores didn’t carry individual SIM cards for BOYD phones. I don’t know whether or not that has changed.

SIM cards usually work fine. But sometimes they don’t. Being able to go to the store would be helpful.