Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] Travel adjustments to avoid cell charges

dimanche 1 novembre 2015

Re: [apple-iphone] Travel adjustments to avoid cell charges

On Nov 1, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I believe Messages will only work if both the sender and receiver have Apple iDevices. Otherwise it will try to send it as a SMS, but without cellular, it will not send the text.

I believe FT can world over WiFi, but I do not use it.

Brent

Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any brevity.

On Nov 1, 2015, at 6:30 AM, Devitt devittad@comcast.net [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

A good friend is traveling in Australia and visiting her husband's relatives. She's not very tech savvy and wants to know how to avoid cell charges while iMessaging and using FaceTime.

I told her to turn on Airplane Mode to shut off cellular. Since AM also shuts off WIFI, I told her to turn WIFI on again. That way she will only use WIFI which is free and not build up a massive cell charge.

Did I give her good info? I'd hate to be the cause of her getting a gigantic bill when she gets home to Vermont.

Cathy

Sent from my iPad 

Almost exactly three years ago I went to Australia. At the time I had a flip phone, that my provider told me would work in Australia. I found out it would not. However, if it had worked the fees to the US would be outrageous. At the Sydney airport was a company called Vodaphone. They sold me a phone for something like $50 Australian, plus I had to buy minutes, by dollars, not minutes. As I recall, calls to US were something like 10 cents a minute. So it might be worth your while to do it that way. I was able to use it to text to an Australian friend. Did not try to text to the US. Those text costs were reasonable too.

Barry Austern

barryaus@fuse.net

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Posted by: Barry Austern <barryaus@yahoo.com>

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