Richard Huff's Seattle Social Blog

You've all heard the stories about thousand dollar phone bills when traveling internationally with an iPhone. As someone that once sent a very costly e-mail (~$1,900) via my Cingular 3G wireless Internet service while roaming in the Pisa, Italy airport, I can attest to a valid concern about mindlessly roaming with an iPhone. Although I already had the discounted international roaming package ($5.99/month) for my voice service, it does not cover any of the data service that is so important to the iPhone. Enter AT&T's "Data Global Plans for iPhone". At just $24.99/month, you can head off most of the scary data roaming costs associated with using the iPhone internationally. Thirty-six countries are covered in the plan, and you can start and stop the service at any time (i.e., there's no new contract associated with the feature).