Roming and Mobile Data in Europe

[RTuesday]

Originally Posted by ripit

So it would cost $1.50 every time I receive a call, vs. free with UM .

Are the people calling you going to call your new number direct, or are you going to forward calls to your new UK/Liechtenstein number? Either way. the amount they pay (or you pay for the forward) is an important part of the incoming cost.

If it's assorted US customers you're probably going to need to forward from a US number rather than expecting them to understand how to reach you internationally, so the costs of forwarding to UM or a UK mobile are your costs (plenty of other discussions here on those).

I do think it's worth getting (as mentioned above) the Virgin UK or Swiss sims for data access. Half the cost of Vodaphone for roaming data. If you check email in the morning, you can switch sims for a while without worrying about incoming calls as the US is asleep. Even then, way too expensive for anything other than emergency checking of email, you'll need to rely on wi-fi for real work.