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How to ensure two-factor availability when traveling?
It's been about 10 years since I've traveled out of the US. In that time, it's become more and more common for various services (including basic things like email) to (randomly or systematically) ...
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How can I receive SMS including short codes while in France?
I'm in France for a month, and I got a local SIM card to avoid paying very high international roaming rates from my home carrier.
However, I often need to receive SMS messages from various companies, ...
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Compatibility of Asus phone with US local sim
I will be traveling to Ohio, USA in the first week of June. I am not sure whether the internet roaming packages in airtel or matrix sim work there. So I prefer to take local carriers of the United ...
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Netherlands SIM card texting the US
I'm studying abroad this semester in Amsterdam, and I recently got a Lebara international bundle sim-only plan. This plan allows me to have unlimited texts and calls, and 5G of data. My question is ...
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SIM cards in South America, which are the most reliable ones? [closed]
I know that this sounds very subjective but I don't know how to put it different:
I will be travel in South America for few months, with an average timespan of 2 weeks in each of this countries: ...
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How to call a number from another country while I'm in another country myself?
Here's the situtation: there's a team meeting coming, situated in the US. I'm from Brazil and wish to call a coworker from Pakistan arriving there.
My number is +55... and his is +92... Is there any ...
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Texting someone who is out of the country?
I understand that international plans give the person who paid for a plan the ability to make outgoing texts or calls to someone at no extra charge.
What I'm unsure about is if I text someone who has ...
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Receive US number calls in Europe [closed]
I looked at other posts but don't think this is covered anywhere yet - apologies if I missed it.
My question relates to my elderly father moving from the US to Europe (The Netherlands), probably ...
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What's the most cost-effective service for calling landlines while travelling?
During my last trip, my credit card were cloned and locked, so I had to call my bank to understand what was happening and how to proceed. This call was very expensive so I decide to prevent this kind ...
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Who pays when receiving international calls on a local Canadian mobile number?
I have no landline and have a Bell account for my cell. I live in Canada and am expecting a call from a friend in Australia.
Will I be charged to receive the call from Australia on my cell on my free ...
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Disposable Cellphone SIM Card for Germany [duplicate]
I am coming to Germany for holidays, and I would life to use my cell phone, however I guess a German provider may be able to offer a much better service of Internet connections. But since this is ...
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Where to buy a 4G Telkomsel sim card in Indonesia?
I have been seeing advertising about the Telkomsel 4G sim card but I'm not able to find any place to buy it.
I tried many small resellers but they only have 3G SIM cards.
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United States National Radio Quiet Zone: Impact on travellers?
The United States National Radio Quiet Zone forbids radio noise in a 34,000 km2 rectangle encompassing several touristic towns: Staunton, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, Bridgewater, Shenandoah Valley, ...
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Data connection and phone calls during visit to London
What is the best way to have about 500 Mbytes of internet data (mainly maps and communications ) for a short visit to London ?
i.e My local SIM rates is too expensive .
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What are the options to maintain a backup phone while travelling in the US?
I have a working GSM handset without a SIM card. I would like to maintain it as my backup phone while travelling within the US while I am a student here.
In India, where I am a citizen, this was easy....
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