Your phone abroad

AT&T

One product for almost everywhere: International Day Pass, charged only on the days you use the phone, and capped at ten daily fees per line per bill cycle.

• No daily fee Canada and Mexico carry no daily fee when your domestic plan includes them.
• Latin America Twenty countries included at no extra cost on AT&T Premium 2.0 and Elite 2.0; a Day Pass destination on every other plan.
• International Day Pass A daily fee on the days you use the phone.
• Not a Day Pass destination Pay-per-use rates apply.

Add-ons

• International Day Pass at sea, $20 a day. Unlimited talk and text, 500 MB before speeds may drop to 512 kbps. No reduced rate for extra lines and no charge cap at sea. A day that mixes a Day Pass destination and a ship is billed the $20 sea fee only.

What catches people out

• The ten-fee cap is per line, per monthly bill cycle, not per trip. A trip that crosses your bill date can be charged ten fees on each side of it.

• The daily fee starts the first time the phone uses data, makes or answers a call, or sends a text. Apps running in the background can start it for you; a received text does not.

• The calendar date is your home US time zone, not the local one, and the line charged the full $12 is not necessarily the one used first.

• Business and government accounts are not eligible for consumer International Day Pass.

Terms: AT&T International Day Pass: important details, verified 2026-09-07. Destinations: AT&T International Day Pass destinations, verified 2026-09-07.

Google Fi Wireless

No daily fee and no pass to buy on the two plans that travel: Unlimited Premium carries 50 GB of high-speed data abroad, and Flexible charges the same $10 a gigabyte overseas as it does at home.

• Canada and Mexico Data, calls and texts on Unlimited Standard, Unlimited Premium and Flexible.
• International destinations The 200+ destinations Fi covers on Unlimited Premium and Flexible.
• Not a Fi destination No international data.

What catches people out

• Calls made while abroad are 20 cents a minute on Flexible and Unlimited Premium. Texts are free.

• Wi-Fi calls to the US, Canada and Mexico are free on Flexible, Unlimited Premium and Unlimited Standard. Wi-Fi calls to anywhere else are billed per minute by destination.

• 5G abroad reaches over 110 of the destinations, on a 5G-capable phone.

Terms: Google Fi Wireless international coverage and rates, verified 2026-09-07. Destinations: Google Fi Wireless international coverage and rates, verified 2026-09-07.

T-Mobile

No daily fee anywhere. Data is part of the plan in 215+ countries and destinations; what varies is how much of it runs at high speed before it drops to 256 kbps, and calls are billed by the minute.

• Canada and Mexico Calls, texts and data are not charged; high-speed data comes out of your plan allotment.
• Included destinations Data and texts are part of the plan; calls are billed per minute.
• Pay-per-use destinations No plan benefit and no International Pass coverage. Calls, texts and data are billed at that country’s rates.

Add-ons

• 1 Day International Pass, $10 a day. 2 GB of high-speed data and unlimited calling for 24 hours.
• 10 Day International Pass, $50 for 10 days. 15 GB of high-speed data and unlimited calling across 10 days, used however you like.
• 30 Day International Pass, $75 for 30 days. 30 GB of high-speed data and unlimited calling across 30 days.

What catches people out

• Calls are $0.50 a minute in the 215+ destinations, including calls over Wi-Fi, except Wi-Fi calls to the US, Canada and Mexico, which are free.

• An incoming call charges a minute even if you let it go to voicemail, as long as the phone is on. A phone that is off or in airplane mode is charged nothing.

• A US-based VPN turns a Wi-Fi call to a non-US number into an international long-distance call.

• Russia applies a 24-hour hold on roaming data and SMS when you first register on a network there. Voice is not affected.

• The benefit is not for extended international use: you must live in the US and use the phone mostly on the home network, or service can be restricted.

Terms: T-Mobile international roaming plans, verified 2026-09-07. Destinations: T-Mobile international roaming services, verified 2026-09-07.

Verizon

TravelPass charges a daily fee with no cap on the number of days, so the arithmetic matters: past roughly nine days the $100 monthly plan is cheaper, and Unlimited Ultimate carries international service at no daily fee at all.

• Canada and Mexico The reduced TravelPass rate.
• TravelPass The standard TravelPass daily rate.
• Not a TravelPass country Pay-per-use rates apply.

Add-ons

• International Monthly Plan, $100 for 30 days. Unlimited data with 20 GB at high speed then 3G, unlimited texts, 250 minutes; $0.25 per minute after that. Verizon positions this at trips of nine days or more. It renews monthly until you remove it.
• 3 TravelPass Days perk, $10 for 3 days. Three TravelPass days per bill cycle, bankable up to 36 days and held for 12 months. A $10 monthly perk on Simplicity, Unlimited Plus and Unlimited Welcome. Not available on Unlimited Ultimate.
• Cruise Daily Pass, $20 a day. Unlimited data with 0.5 GB at high speed then 3G, calls to the US, unlimited texts. TravelPass days cannot be used on a cruise ship.
• In-flight Daily Pass, $20 a day. Unlimited 3G data on aircraft that offer the service.

What catches people out

• Verizon publishes no cap on the number of TravelPass days billed. A three-week trip is billed for all three weeks.

• A 24-hour session starts by itself the first time you call, text or use data. A text two hours later tells you when it ends.

• Moving between a $6 country and a $12 country on the same day runs two separate sessions.

• TravelPass days do not roll over. Perk days bank for 12 months; Verizon Visa days expire at the end of the calendar year.

Terms: Verizon TravelPass FAQs, verified 2026-09-07. Destinations: Verizon TravelPass countries, verified 2026-09-07.