Honeymooning overseas? Enjoying the slopes of Canada or the beaches in the Carribbean? You might find an unwelcome shock when you return home...your cell phone bill!
Okay, ladies....This is rotten....All the more reason I need to get the word out.
When you go on your honeymoon (to the island...to london...to hawaii..., basically anywhere out of your home location!) Please, please, please, check that your cell phone company isn't going to raid your pocketbook while you are gone!
Not only are voice minutes much more expensive in other countries, but your "Rollover Minutes," "Fave Fives" or "My Circle" plans probably also are not valid in other countries.
Hear me out. There are a lot of us with blackberries & these really great data plans...we get our email on our phone. Your antenna is "on" all the time. This is the first part of the nightmare.
Let's say you get off the plane in Albuquerque (love bugs bunny!) and, guess what? Your cell phone antenna is constantly checking your email. Yes, constantly! And, you return from your beautiful, relaxing, smooth, lovey-dovey, romantic 10 days in Aruba and in another 5 days, you receive your $987 phone bill!! Yes, perhaps even more than that!
Do you check email using your phone? Send or Receive text messages? Browse the web? Use Internet-based GPS mapping? Have you installed some application on your phone that will update or alert you real-time of various events? How about RSS feeds? Do you get RSS feeds of your favorite blogs? Every single electronic transaction is subject to extraordinary charges!
I know a colleague of mine who, even though she did not make a single phone call, did not browse the Internet, did not text anyone, or even use her phone at all for a week's vacation, came home to a cell phone bill that was SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! Why?...because even though her phone was left in her suitcase the entire time, it was turned on. That meant it was connected to another country's cell phone provider, and for the entire duration of her vacation, she had a permanent data connection to their network, accruing charges by the minute!
Now, don't get me wrong, some cell phone companies may be forgiving, they may understand if you call them crying....But, why risk it?! Turn that thing off when you leave the U.S.
You're on your honeymoon for goodness sakes! Don't you have something else to pay attention to, other than your crackberry?
until next time.....
EASY WEDDING PLANNING!
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