Yeah, I keep that for emergencies (you only pay if you use it) and also turn my Telus on occasionally to check text messages and do two factor authentication (incoming texts are free), but CAD$15 a day to “roam like home” is more expensive than an entire month with a local SIM in many countries.
@wjrii@JohnnyCanuck Way Back When™ I worked at a telco, we had a customer go over seas on a sales trip, used his phone like normal, and then came home to a phone bill up around $35k.
I don’t know how much he made while overseas, but he wasn’t *that* upset about the phone bill, outside of him kicking himself for forgetting to get a data pack.
Yeah, I keep that for emergencies (you only pay if you use it) and also turn my Telus on occasionally to check text messages and do two factor authentication (incoming texts are free), but CAD$15 a day to “roam like home” is more expensive than an entire month with a local SIM in many countries.
And yet still a vast improvement on the old model of “you went off airplane mode, please sell your plasma while applying for a second mortgage.”
@wjrii @JohnnyCanuck Way Back When™ I worked at a telco, we had a customer go over seas on a sales trip, used his phone like normal, and then came home to a phone bill up around $35k.
I don’t know how much he made while overseas, but he wasn’t *that* upset about the phone bill, outside of him kicking himself for forgetting to get a data pack.
Haha true!