What’s better? Using your own phone with your wireless plan from at home and paying for roaming or to buy a local sim card at arrival?
It depends what you want to do.
If you just want to call home, buying a local sim card can sometimes be cheaper. It depends on the carrier and plan you choose. Maybe your carrier at home offers international calling addons, which is also sometimes cheaper.
If you want mobile broadband for your netbook or smartphone on the go, then local prepaid sim cards are often cheaper.
An example:
Our carrier at home charges $10 / MB when roaming in Australia. Let’s say we need 50 MB of data to check emails, turn-by-turn navigation and a little bit Facebook. That would be $500.
Mobile broadband in Australia – What did we do?
