Do a lot of international traveling and like to bring your iPhone with you? AT&T just made their international data plans a lot more affordable. Don’t get too excited, though: when you’re talking international roaming, “more affordable” still equals “pretty darn extortive.”
Here’s the new International Data plans.
$24.99 gets you 50MB (previously 20MB)
– $49.99 gets you 125MB (previously 50MB)
– $99.99 gets you 275MB (previously 100MB)
– $199.99 gets you 800MB (previously 200MB)
– $10 for every additional 10 megabytes
So definitely an improvement, but if you’re a frequent traveler, it’s still probably better to buy yourself an unlocked iPhone 4 and pick yourself up a pay-as-you-go SIM with data in your destination country.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
