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Originally Posted by EDF30
I am doing european delivery of a BMW and will be driving in Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and the Netherlands.
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Toggle Mobile might be useful, as you can log in and add local identities for Germany France and Netherlands, which means direct dialled outgoing rates starting at 3 pence (UK, roughly 5 US c) a minute. Also free incoming calls in all your countries.
I'd echo the advice about data, and some so-called smart phones wanting to be online almost by default. If you stick with your phone, explore the settings to turn data roaming off when you don't need it, and set pinging for updates and new messages to manual only.
But personally I'd use a Nokia phone, Opera Mini browser with images sometimes turned off, then some mobile websites use just a few kilobytes. And email client set to manual update, and headers only and just read a couple of important messages and leave the rest until in wifi range later. Then a few pence of data a day is perfectly feasible.