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Benjip

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#3415339 16-Sep-2025 12:48

Aucklandjafa:

Damn. That’s ridiculous. $280 for 28 days roaming vs Spark’s $60 for the same period. Whilst One may offer you more data, it’s easy enough to get a local e-sim and use that for data whisk having the Spark sim handle calls/texts.

How much data is Spark giving you for that $60? Looks like 4GB to me (two lots of 2GB).

I'd go through that in an hour with file syncing to/from Dropbox while working abroad…

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#3415349 16-Sep-2025 13:22

Benjip:

Aucklandjafa:

Damn. That’s ridiculous. $280 for 28 days roaming vs Spark’s $60 for the same period. Whilst One may offer you more data, it’s easy enough to get a local e-sim and use that for data whisk having the Spark sim handle calls/texts.

How much data is Spark giving you for that $60? Looks like 4GB to me (two lots of 2GB).

I'd go through that in an hour with file syncing to/from Dropbox while working abroad…

Yep, that's why I said you get a local e-sim for your data needs and concurrently run with your Spark sim for calls/texts - still works out miles cheaper than One's offering.

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#3415352 16-Sep-2025 13:30

DjShadow:

Good to see New Caledonia on the list also, thought that was a bit odd given how close it is to NZ and AU that it was on the top tier cost wise for roaming. Was there recently on a cruise and just relied on the free WiFi at the old cruise terminal.

@DjShadow I went on a work trip / holiday in 2001 to New Caledonia with VodafoneNZ and boy am I pleased I did not need to pay that roaming bill - I saw the invoice and it was about $1200 for 4 days

Those were the days when phone usage including roaming was just wiped

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#3415355 16-Sep-2025 13:40

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@DjShadow I went on a work trip / holiday in 2001 to New Caledonia with VodafoneNZ and boy am I pleased I did not need to pay that roaming bill - I saw the invoice and it was about $1200 for 4 days

Those were the days when phone usage including roaming was just wiped

What do you mean "those were the days"

if you currently (Until 15 October) jumped on an Emirates flight to Dubai, and just got off the plane and did no "data angels" or anything else, One will bill you $11.15 a MB as their "standard rate"....

Your $1200 for 4 days would seem a bargain if you went about your business as if you were at home....

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#3415405 16-Sep-2025 15:47

I think it's business users spending other people's money who are the target market for roaming services. As long as users and their bosses don't care about the roaming costs, it's just a cost of doing business and the telcos will keep ripping us off. Everyone is happy except for the end customer who pays the bill.

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#3416006 18-Sep-2025 21:01

when I was at Hong Kong recently, buy those simcard, I can use it in Hong Kong plus roaming, Taiwan, China and Macau, all of this package $188 Hong Kong dollars. and this simcard will last for a year.

at the place with wi-fi just use wi-fi calling. so much cheaper

Now I am just going to keep it active every year. $188/4.5=$42 a year.

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#3416019 18-Sep-2025 21:37

Good tip!

I went to Europe many years ago (2015 maybe?) and got an EE UK SIM and abused the free roaming in all EU countries (as UK was in the EU then) and for some reason the SIM stayed active for years so I managed another big trip to Eurpoe a few years later. Sadly it finally expired some time last year.

Another trip, I travelled around Asia and got a Starhub Singapore SIM which had an included amount of roaming in many SE Asian countries. Ended up using just one SIM the whole trip and it even worked in NZ! Only downside is these SIMs have a fairly short expiry as they tend to be for tourist use only.

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