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Originally Posted by HarryT
Same here in Europe; you can buy "pay as you go" SIM cards pretty much everywhere (many petrol stations sell them, for example), and international data roaming in particular is ludicrously expensive - it's generally much better to buy a local SIM card.
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Most of S.E. Asia gives this same option for internet connection too. Sim cards for phones, 2 hour/24 hour/1week/1month/100 hours, etc cards for internet connections without e-mail service. Very convenient when traveling with your own laptop and cell phones. Previously, all cell phones in Japan had no sim card option. You had to activate at a cell phone store. The iPhones sold here are now sim card devices, but they are locked into the local carrier. You have to jailbreak the phone (which voids its warantee) if you want to use a different sim card when traveling.
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