Best way to have cell/data access when overseas?

[monkey333]

Visited S Korea twice recently and rented a wifi egg. Made and received calls via Google hangouts. The caveat being I had to run a vpn location 'spoofing' app to fool Google into thinking I was CONUS. Not sure if this is an option where you are headed.

 

[Humpy]

I am using my phone for personal reasons (mainly keeping in touch with my family), thus I am not expecting my company to reimburse me for it.

The only thing I have seen about Germany and SIM cards is that in many cases they expect you to be a citizen or at least have a German bank account. I will still give it a shot and see what happens.

In Germany I'll just stop in a local Vodafone shop for a SIM card. Use my usual credit card to pay and my hotel as my address and never had a problem. We have a couple of Moto E as travel phones. It's all really easy.

 

[rumpleforeskin]

When I was previously in Germany with a friend from outside EU we got him a SIM from a local phone store (also Vodafone I think as mentioned above) and registered it in store using the address of the hotel we were staying at. Had no problem doing this and the store staff did not seem to think it was an unusual situation.

A local SIM will be far better value than the $10/day travelpass which sounds like terrible value for allowing you to use the texts/mins/data that you have already paid for. In 2 weeks you would spend more on that Travel pass than I do on my phone tariff in 5 months (which gives me unlimited data that I use in many country's for no added fee)

Alternatively go for the travel pass and charge it to your company, as you are doing it for their benifit.