19-07-2025
Traveling Abroad? How to Avoid Surprise Phone Charges and Save Money on Roaming
On your next trip abroad, you'll need plane tickets, hotel reservations and…a cellular data strategy.
There's the simple route: Turn on roaming and let your home carrier charge a daily fee for talk, text and data overseas. That adds up quickly. Verizon's Travel Pass went from $10 to $12 a day last year. And that's for each phone in your family plan. Or there's the money-saving approach: Download a prepaid eSIM for a week's worth of data that costs a fraction of the price.
