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Two things I just learned about using my cell phone while traveling to South Africa from California using Verizon cell service.
One: my iPhone 12 will work without getting a new sim card. It will txt, email and make calls via travel pass plan. It’s about 20$ per day. I spoke with a tier 2 technician who explained this to me. Some Verizon customer service people don’t know this
Two: I just used my phone via WiFi while I traveled to and from South Africa. I turned off my cellular data in the general settings area. I used what’s app to talk to, send pictures and txt everyone.
When I got my bill they charged me an extra $100 bucks, the reason is on iPhone 12 and above they have another setting that must be turned off to. All the way at the bottom in settings it says WiFi assist???? If on it will find cellular data and use it. So crazy. They did take that $100 off my bill.
Also you must turn on roaming as well and your phone will capture cellular data from around the world.
I hope this helps. It would have been Nice to know my phone would have worked when I was in Cape Town.
One: my iPhone 12 will work without getting a new sim card. It will txt, email and make calls via travel pass plan. It’s about 20$ per day. I spoke with a tier 2 technician who explained this to me. Some Verizon customer service people don’t know this
Two: I just used my phone via WiFi while I traveled to and from South Africa. I turned off my cellular data in the general settings area. I used what’s app to talk to, send pictures and txt everyone.
When I got my bill they charged me an extra $100 bucks, the reason is on iPhone 12 and above they have another setting that must be turned off to. All the way at the bottom in settings it says WiFi assist???? If on it will find cellular data and use it. So crazy. They did take that $100 off my bill.
Also you must turn on roaming as well and your phone will capture cellular data from around the world.
I hope this helps. It would have been Nice to know my phone would have worked when I was in Cape Town.
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