This past summer, our cell phone provider wouldn’t unlock our phone so we could get a SIM card—damn you, T-Mobile—which made us incommunicado during our month-long trip to Italy. Sure, we tried using phone cards, but they aren’t so easy to come by in some small Italian villages, and Internet access wasn’t always readily available for us to jump on Skype. And while we vowed to troll craigslist to buy an unlocked phone, we found another alternative with TravelCell rentals.
The company provides rental phones to travelers in more than 200 countries, and a selling point is that all incoming calls are free. A bonus is that TravelCell ships the phone to you before you leave for your trip. It’s nice to have one less thing to worry about as you prepare for your vacay, but it’s a convenience you’ll pay for; shipping is additional $10 or $20 for overnight delivery.
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