Everybody should check with their service provider. I checked with mine (Sprint) and found that calls would cost me 59 cents a minute, texting would not be charged extra, and I was told, in no uncertain terms, to turn off my data. The Sprint rep told me of people traveling internationally ending up with $2000 to $3000 bills from using the data link when roaming.

However, they have a $2.99 per month plan for international travel that drops the cost to 21 cents per minute for phone calls. I only had to pay for the one month.

Jack

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton