iPhone (Verizon) in Moscow & St. Petersburg?

[Kristin Bidoshi]

Amanda,

The I-phone 5 is unlocked, so you can purchase a Russian Sim (Nano for the 5) with a data plan. My plan is 500 rubles/month, but has a huge data plan - something like 25 hours of SKYPE capability per month (important for me as I talk with my kids every day). I'm in Irkutsk so the plans may be much cheaper here.

No need to carry two phones.. Also, if you don't have Viber, you may want to look into that as well.

Best, Kristin 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 12, 2014, at 6:28 AM, "Renee (Stillings) Huhs" <renee at ALINGA.COM> wrote:
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> Somewhat related to this – I have used the T-Mobile free data roaming in Russia and overall it works well. No additional charge and you get unlimited data (email/internet) and SMS. And local calls only $0.20/min. So unlike in the past, I do keep my US phone “live” while in Russia and don’t panic about the $5/min (like it used to be) when someone calls for no particular reason. Only two issues. First, I sometimes find that I cannot SMS successfully every Russian number – can’t figure out why some get through and not others. But I also have this issue from the US when SMS’ing Russia. Second, if you have locals calling you, they may not want to have to call a US number to do so. Thus, if I am there longer than a day or two I also use a secondary local phone.
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> Renee
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Amanda Ewington <amewington at davidson.edu> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
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> For travel to Russia I usually purchase a Russian SIM card to use in my old "unlocked" flip phone. This time around I am wondering whether it makes sense to try Verizon's "Global data" plan.  Looks pretty good on paper, but I am wondering if it actually works.  I'd love to hear from anyone with direct experience using Verizon's Global plans on an iPhone 5S in Moscow & St. Petersburg.  
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