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Are you being complacent about your international roaming?

Are you being complacent about your international roaming? Well, if you are, Sherry Madera, CEO of AwayPhone is not impressed.

Will your mobile roaming bill be as depressing as the UK’s summer? Don’t let European price cap make you complacent about the cost of calling while on holiday warns AwayPhone

With services such as AwayPhone, there is next to no excuse for being nailed for just over £15 for a ten minute call back to the UK from Morocco by your mobile operator… if you were using AwayPhone’s service, you’d only have paid £3.

The biggest problem is, exactly as the headline here states. Complacency. If you’re only going to Morocco for 3 days, can you be bothered to find a local mobile operator sim card? Not generally — so you get absolutely nailed for your calls. As always, you don’t realise just how much you use your mobile phone, particularly if you’re a British national obsessed with ‘connectedness’.

If you’re starting a 3 month contract in Morocco, yes, then you’ll sort it out and get yourself a local pay-as-you-go-sim. The disconnect is for smaller periods of time. I think we’re all conditioned to expect that ‘my phone is tri/quad band, it’ll work in Morocco’… aye… but we totally forget the cost implications, … STILL!

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