I just did. It is limited to Spectrum Internet customers.
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Spectrum has been the rottenest spammer on our landline, while it was fun to harass the creeps at first, it grew tiresome to where Iāve turned the tigers off all, and left a very quiet, ignored tuneā¦ They donāt even serve this area, yet just kept up the spammingā¦
Verizon cellular, were the best techs we ever worked with as we expanded, upgraded their network from the original AMPS to CDMA and whatever theyāve gotten into todayā¦ And zero spamā¦ Local store is great as well, answers in a flash, updated our iPhones several times over the yearsā¦
(yes, invested in AAPL, T, VZ, dividends do help outā¦)
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Oh well. Itās great in my area - Southeast USA.
Sorry!
Try calling the 1-800 Verizon number and speaking with a Customer Service Representative. My experience was not āThe Best I Ever Worked Withā.
Just saying.
Stick with it if you like it.
Never had to in all my iPhone days with VZā¦ Any questions weāve had, just a mile or so tot he Verzon Storeā¦ Overseas travel question was answered, pretty pricey, simpler to buy a replacement SIM in the country being visited, then put the VZ SIM back once back homeā¦ Next will be if/when we update to a newer iPhoneā¦ Hard to justify at the momentā¦
I have a question on that ā if you get an overseas SIM card for where you are travelling wouldnāt that be a new phone number? Or can something be set so calls to your original SIM would forward to the new phone number?
JimA
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Yes, a new number depending on the country visited, we didnāt bother on river cruises (Viking) because you cross over several countries, system access was likely limited, but the ships had WiFi, so my laptop was useful. But in Denmark, and later in London, it worked quite simply. SIMs were available at the 7-11 or QuikStop equivalent, or a computer shop if one was handy. In Denmark I bought one, the clerk installed it, set up the codes, so I bought another for my wife, took it to the hotel and they could read the Danish instructions, set it up for meā¦ London was easier, no language problems, so for about $20 equivalent, a monthās service, worldwide calling, texting with pretty generous limits, more time could be added if neededā¦
So they are just on racks in the shops, clerk even had the little pin to eject the VZ SIM, I bought an extra, but a paper clip works, tooā¦ And it seems it was common thing for the folks at the hotel to do as wellā¦ My lack of Danish was the only issue, had another time with the rent car, the GPS screen was all in Danish, had to go back tot he rental agency to have them flip it to English, so a little adventure in downtown Copenhagenā¦ We got two SIMs mostly so we could call each other as well as make local reservations and suchā¦ And it opened up the GPS for our walkaboutsā¦ Iād tried Garminās in the past, not goodā¦
So if one is staying in one country, buy the local SIMā¦ There may also be more international SIMs available, but we havenāt looked latelyā¦ Not a good time to do that St Petersburg to Moscow riverboat cruise today, glad we did it when we did (2012), the other was Amsterdam to Budapest (2014), well worth every penny, but we just did without the iPhones at that timeā¦ earlier european, Aussie, South Pacific islands, Spain, Paris, were also before iPhonesā¦ actual getaways!
weco
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Very strange. Every carrier I have ever been with just automatically provides for international calling. I was recently in Jamaica for a week - and the entire cost of my international calling, plus data for the entire week was $4.67.
Typical Verizon though - they always tacked on āfeesā for various things, regardless of trying to figure out the best way to do things.
Another reason I left Verizon right there!
I wonder . . .
At my house my phone only sees one bar worth of cell signal, but my phone works great because I have WiFi Calling enabled. (Settings / Cellular / Wi-Fi Calling). Could it work even if Iām in another part of the world, as long as it is hooked to WiFi and the internet?
Which carrier? Which plan? Can you post a link to the carrier plan page? Most popular carriers charge $10 extra per day for overseas calls. Data is a different story, T-Mobile, for example, includes international data in most of their common plans. But voice calls are usually very expensive (because the local carriers who are actually carrying the calls charge quite a bit via your US carrier, plus your US carrier is generally greedy*)
* US (and Canadian) Carriers are VERY greedy and US mobile phone service customers pay 3 to 10 times as much as almost everywhere else in the world.
Here is a link to the Spectrum Mobile International plans:
I put in Germany, as an example. Here is what came back:
Rates while in Germany:
TALK $0.04 per min
TEXT Free intl
DATA $0.01per mb
So, if you were there for like a week - and letās say you spoke for an HOUR (which I canāt imagine) - that would be $2.40.
Obviously, youāll have to check specific countries, but my travel to Mexico, Canada and Caribbean has been virtually free. - rarely am I charged.
I hope that helps!! 
This part would never work for us! Our plan currently has 8 lines on T-mobile and having international data included is awesome. For example, this summer, 4 of our kids were overseas for a few weeks, and I was overseas for a month and a half. As I recall, our T-mobile bill went up by max a dollar or two for a few voice calls that were made, but data was included. And thatās very important because the kids (and I) use LOTS and LOTS of data on a daily basis. I mean, using 1GB a day is nothing to kids nowadays, and that would be an extra $10 on your plan. Sure they try to use WiFi whenever available, because itās free and faster, but when theyāre in the train watching a video or tiktok or whatever, it can easily consume 1GB pretty quickly.
100% agree. This would not work for your scenario.
Well, I think Verizon was similar to that $10/day rate and some sort of texting limit back when we were traveling more, I havenāt looked at it since, as the replacement SIM solved it, so no needā¦ And that was 10 years ago or moreā¦ I never bothered to look at other providers as Iām not their customer, never will be since VZ fit our domestic use so wellā¦ Likely many changes in the last few yearsā¦
No doubt.
This discussion got me poking around. One thing I learned is that many phones that use eSims can have more than one - and so have more than one number. Home and work, for example. Or one for where you are from, and one for where you are visiting. For an unlocked phone they need not be the same carrier.
Going back a bitā¦ For at least some carriers Mexico and Canada are treated very differently than other places like Europe. My plan supports my phone in both places, within some limits.
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True, my iPhone 11 Pro Max has the ability of 2 SIM chips, the earlier ones we had, didnātā¦ And now with eSIMs, a different game againā¦ Weāre headed to Mexico in January, but Iāve never needed, bothered to mess with cells while down there, but it might be interesting to look into it as we get closerā¦