Travel to Antigua

[Aa39]

Can any one explain costs for using sky mobile in Antigua is it ten £2 travel passport or something else?

[PandJ2020]

Something else.

£2,160 per GB data (yes, two thousand)

£2.16 per MINUTE to call UK

£1.80 per minute to receive calls

50p per SMS

Calls to local numbers charged at international rates (£3.50 per minute)

[Daniel0210]

@Aa39 

It's a Rest Of The World location and therefore it would be very very expensive.

[Aa39]

Wow worth looking into a pay as you go sim then?

[Daniel0210]

@Aa39 

Glad you asked now aren't you. No expensive surprises waiting for you on your return. 

[PandJ2020]

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@Aa39 wrote:

Wow worth looking into a pay as you go sim then?

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That's your call.  But even connecting for a few seconds or minutes can rack up a noticeable bill.

If keeping Sky SIM in the phone then keep the device in flight mode and only use WiFi.

....alternatively get a PAYG SIM locally or in advance - but they may not be cheap either...

[caesarome]

If you want to use the internet then even using a local sim on PAYG is going to cost you a small fortune so as advised above using wifi is the way to go.

[Aa39]

Will My spend cap restrict excessive spending

[TimmyBGood]

@Aa39 

In theory yes, but why risk it?

You'd hit a typical £45 cap after 20MB of data use, which is about one map refresh, a few image-heavy web pages, 10 minutes of HQ Spotify audio or one Tiktok video...

Standard advice is don't even think about having cellular service enabled in a 'rest of world destination': if you need it, get a local SIM.