iPhone (Verizon) in Moscow & St. Petersburg?

[Amanda Weaver]

I just returned from Russia a few months ago where I unfortunately had a particularly bad experience with Verizon's Global Data Plan--Verizon did not properly unlock my phone (iPhone 4) prior to arriving in Russia (despite an in-store visit with employees assuring me that it was good to go), so I had to coordinate stateside communication to get my SIM card unlocked while there.  I wasn't in St. Petersburg, but (once the service was working) the service worked fine in all of the parts of Moscow I was in--MTS was the Russian service provider.  I don't recall needing to SMS any Russian numbers, so I can't speak to that (inexpensive to text US numbers, if necessary, although the texts get delayed), but all Russian phone calls worked fine (it was just a little pricey for the calls).  

Amanda

Amanda Weaver
azweaver at asu.edu
Faculty Associate, Arizona State University
M.A., University of Arizona 
Russian Language, Literature, and Linguistics
Therapeutic Riding Instructor, Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship, Int'l.


Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:28:09 -0700
From: renee at ALINGA.COM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] iPhone (Verizon) in Moscow & St. Petersburg?
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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. Renee From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of E Elliott
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] iPhone (Verizon) in Moscow & St. Petersburg? Ditto. Please ON-LIST!--Elisabeth ElliottSlavic Dept. 
Northwestern University On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Amanda Ewington <amewington at davidson.edu> wrote:Dear Colleagues, 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.   Please respond off list: amewington at davidson.edu Thank you! Amanda -----------------------------------------------------Amanda Ewington, Ph.D.
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