Are you a fancy international traveler with a capable unlocked phone and still want access to all the social medias? Don’t want to keep popping into vodaphone or TIM shops asking for sim cards in different languages? Here’s what you need. It was a godsend on my vacation and I would recommend it to everyone. Learn from my mistakes though.
Stuff I Tried: globalgig international nano sim card
In July, I traveled to Europe for two weeks with my family. Knowing that I’d want access to all the social medias and a safety net of google maps when walking around alone, I looked into an international sim card for my new iphone 5s.
Verizon’s international data plans cost $30 per 100 MB + exorbitant charges if you go over. I can easily blow through that watching gifs of corgis wagging their butts. Not a valid option for regular use of my phone. However I bought it anyways… just in case I needed to make a call home or my sim card didnt shipped in time.Knowing that I use about 2 gigs a month, I bought the Globalgig 1 GB Nano Sim from DataRoam for my iPhone. It arrived about a week later. Note that they will only ship to the address linked to your credit card.
So I activated the card on GlobalGig’s website, per instructions. A confirmation of my activation never arrived. I wasn’t even sure if I was supposed to receive an email about it, so assumed everything was fine. Unfortunately when I got to Italy, my phone read “No Service”.