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Do you have any recommendations regarding mobile phones? Did you keep your home-country plan or use a local provider?
Vodafone. - Mar 2013
Mobile phones are VERY different here than in the U.S. Many people do a pay-as-you-go plan here because it is just so much easier, but I had to have my iPhone 18-month contract with data plan and opted to use Vodafone. Orange and O2 also have plans for iPhone and Blackberry, as well as others. For home phones, BT and Virgin have the monopoly on home phone lines, which are almost a necessity if you want home internet. We used BT for phone with a $12/mo. extra charge to call the U.S., www.bt.com. Of course, if you have unlimited internet/data and good signal, there is always MagicJack, Skype, FaceTime and other ideas that we didn't use as frequently. - Sep 2012
