Hi. Does someone have experience buying a SIM card and having it installed in an iPHONE 5 at Salzburg Airport? As it's a smaller airport, is this easily done?
Also, will a SIM bought in Austria also work in Germany and/or Hungary?
I am leaning towards this rather than towards purchasing a data roaming plan with my U.S. Provider.
Thanks!
Check out EuroBuzz.com for a $9 SIM card before you leave that will work all over Europe. There have been several positive references to EuroBuzz on this forum since 2010 in including:
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/tech-tips/question-on-sim-card-for-iphone5-in-germany-get-at-frankfurt-airport-or-in-munich.
Have fun on your trip!
Auf Wiederseden!
A SIM card bought in Austria will also work in Germany and Hungary, though you will be roaming, so the charges will be slightly higher. Not sure about buying a SIM at the Salzburg airport, since I haven't been there in years (before cellphones). A locally purchased SIM will be a lot cheaper per-minute than a Eurobuzz SIM. I keep a Eurobuzz SIM in my dual SIM phone as a backup, but in the other slot I keep a local SIM. On my most recent trip to Spain, Eurobuzz was charging something like 79 cents a minute. The local SIM I bought was less than 20 cents a minute. The benefit to a Eurobuzz SIM (and the main reason I keep it) is that your number is permanent - it never expires - and you are charged after the fact instead of buying minutes upfront. In case of an emergency, my family can always reach me on my Eurobuzz number, even though my local SIM numbers change.
JackierCT,
Im not sure whos sim you will buy/use, but my experince was:
voice/data/text would work in Austria,
data outside of Austria would not.
of course your mileage my vary,
happy trails.
The Eurobuzz SIM card is ok for very limited voice and text use, but the prices for data are not good. If you expect to use mostly data and a small amount of voice/text then you will do better with either a local SIM card or an international roaming package from your US mobile provider. As an example, AT&T offers a roaming package that includes 120Mb of data for $30. That amount of data would cost $95 with the Eurobuzz card.
2 - Larry . . . Being my cell account is with AT&T I was interested in the plan you mentioned. Here is the link to it.
https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/international/roaming.html?tab=1#fbid=dwhjEG_otAB
The OP did not mention who their US provider is. The AT&T rep said one must have an active AT&T account to use this feature. I do plenty of emailing and what I thought was plenty of data. It turns out I do .60 of 2GB.
Thank you, Larry, for making me aware of this feature. :-)
