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Is it possible to use both T-Mobile (eSim) and a local carrier (physical SIM) when traveling abroad?
We have a two-week trip planned to the Azores and mainland Portugal for this September. As repeatedly grandfathered Simple Choice customers of 20-years standing, that is, before T-Mobile was T-Mobile...
@RebDovid , while my phones don’t (as far as I know) support E-SIMs, so I have no personal experience, many people on Reddit suggest doing exactly what you describe. Altho this is most commonly mentioned with the iPhone. I think your phone needs to be unlocked.
Re: Voicemail, I have read that T-Mobile no longer charges for calls that auto-forward to voicemail while roaming. Again, no personal experience since I use unconditional forward to send all incoming calls to voicemail when roaming. Use Visual Voicemail to check messages as I believe you are charged if you call voicemail to retrieve messages.
I used a 10-day data pass in Greece last October and it worked great. The “2G data” is not too bad if you temper your expectations and preload Google Maps. It’s not really “2G” rather it’s whatever data is available but throttled to ~128 kbps.
