living in europe,iPhone 5,what phone service to use?

Hi John,

Please call your carrier and ask them about their international calling plan, choose the one that best suits your requirements. Also consider taking a data plan to access the internet. Hope this helps you.

Cheers!

She should probably talk to her comrades and see what they recommend. There's bound to be someone around who's been there recently. They'll have the answers she needs.

The best solution, though more expensive than a subsidized iPhone, is to purchase from Apple an unlocked iPhone. That will be a full price iPhone but will accept sim cards from any carrier, then since the European systems almost all use GSM she can easily use a pay-as-you go arrangement with a carrier or talk to the carrier where she has been deployed about a sim for how ever long she is there. If redeployed, just do the same thing. In the US AT&T is the GSM service.

To start with if your Daughter is on a posting she is best getting use of a local German carrier

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using a USA carrier on roaming in Germany will be prohibative over time

However she needs an iPhone that will work in US on return

Best solution I can see is an unlocked iPhone (only from Apple in US )

(She could buy in Germany but that iPhone 5 will not work on LTE (4G in US) )

GSM which will use a local German carrier sim

She will need to check options for sim only deals .In UK we have either PAYG or month to month contracts

germany is very similar in many aspects so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have similar

There will be many with a similar issue so she should talk to others in Base and also the PX

Seems like a plan.