It worked fine for us in 2016 to 2019 as hospitaleros. One albergue did not have wifi either. Depends on how dependant you are on your phone, I think. I just usually put mine away and follow the arrows.
It depends on which T-Mobile plan you have.
I've always had one of their plans that provided free data and texting to and from US numbers, but all phone calls were 25¢ a minute. Last year I upgraded to their Magenta Max plan (though they may...
In 2019, my mom called me at 3am whilst I was asleep my first night in Spain sleeping in a hostel.
That’s how I realized my phone was working in Spain sans SIM card, or this or that.
I use t-Mobile and it works just like you were at home. the caller just calls your number and your phone rings in Spain. No one has ever had a problem contacting me - including spam and nuisance calls.
BTW, text works seamlessly.
They do not...
Hmmm. Definitely slow while surfing. I'm having trouble remembering about maps. Probably a little slow but I'm not sure. If you want to use it for maps, you might pre-load the maps when you have wifi.
We have found that T-Mobile's free data in Spain is slow. But, of course, usually you have wi-fi when you need to do heavy-duty use of data so that might not be too much of a problem.
I’m with Verizon (in the US). They want $10 per day to use my phone internationally with limited data. With a 30-40 day Camino, that’s more than I care to spend. I’m planning to use the free WhatsApp to make calls when I have WiFi (Albergues)...
Unless they have an upgraded plan with T-Mobile phone calls are 25 cents a minute.
The best thing to do is to have your friends and relatives install WhatsApp, so that you can make free calls over wifi or cellular data.
I agree, but I cannot train my elderly Mom to use WhatsApp no matter how hard I have tried....unfortunately we now have the expensive ATT plan. When I was using T-Mobile a few years ago it was a much better deal. I don't think we paid 25 cents...
Always store your US contacts' numbers beginning with +1.
So for example, a US number (987) 654 3210 should be stored as +19876543210 .
The contact can then be called from any location in the world.
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