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Thanks,MWC Virgin. Dear MWC VirginFirst of all, glad to hear you will be coming to Barcelona! Mobile World Congress is a terrific and exciting event. And Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world with amazing art and architecture and yummy food and wine. It's my favorite show of the year. Now to answer your question. Traveling internationally with a cell phone, and especially a smartphone, can be very expensive if you aren't careful. As you noted in your question, there are several stories of people coming home from a trip to find they've racked up hundreds or even thousands of dollars in roaming usage fees. Once you know how much carriers charge to roam onto a foreign carrier's network, you'll understand why. It's highway-robbery. For example, AT&T charges about $1.40 per minute for phone calls made while roaming in Spain. And it charges 50 cents per text message, and 1.95 cents per kilobyte of data. (Even though a couple of pennies per kilobyte may not sound like a lot, it adds up very quickly. This is kilobytes we are talking about here, not megabytes.).

Getting a foreign SIM card for your phone will be the least expensive iphone case light up option for you, But there are a couple of drawbacks, First, you have to take time out of your travels to go to a store to buy the SIM card, You'll also have to get a local Spanish phone number, which means that calls to your U.S, number won't ring on your phone, unless you are able to forward the calls, This means that you will have to give out your local Spanish number, And since these SIM cards and phone numbers only last for one year, it's unlikely you'll be able to reuse the same SIM and number when you return to MWC next year..

The way local prepaid SIM cards work is that instead of using your regular wireless service, you will pop out your existing SIM card and put in a new prepaid SIM card from a local Spanish carrier. The SIM card basically changes your service from your U.S. carrier to a Spanish carrier's network. This is why you will have a new local phone number in Spain. The other thing to consider is that using a SIM card from a local carrier only works if you have an unlocked GSM "world" phone. Most phones from AT&T and T-Mobile USA fit this category. But if you have the iPhone and AT&T is your carrier, AT&T will not unlock the device for you to use it overseas. That said, you can get AT&T to unlock other smartphones for you. And T-Mobile also unlocks phones used on its network. Of course, this doesn't mean that an AT&T iPhone can't be unlocked. But AT&T won't help you do it, so you'll have to do it on your own.

If you are a Verizon Wireless or Sprint Nextel customer, you need to be sure that the phone you plan to use in Spain is a "world" phone, Verizon and Sprint use a technology called CDMA, But European carriers, including those in Spain, use GSM technology, To serve customers who want to take their phones abroad, Sprint and Verizon offer some "world" phones that have both CDMA and GSM radios in them, These iphone case light up phones can roam onto foreign carrier networks or they can be unlocked and a local SIM card can be used, Verizon and Sprint will unlock any "world" smartphone so long as the subscriber meets the individual carrier's requirements..

Back to your question. Should you get a local SIM instead of roaming using your existing U.S.-based wireless service? It really depends on how long you will be in Spain or any other country you're visiting on your trip. And it depends on whether you want to go through the hassle of buying a new SIM and using a Spanish number while you're away. If you plan on using a lot of data or you will be gone for more than a couple of weeks, the local SIM option might be a better choice. But there are also ways to use a U.S. roaming service without paying an arm and a leg.