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It’s not widely publicized, but Verizon has an overseas loaner program if you need to take your phone with you on your overseas trip.  If you call 800 711 8300 you can arrange for them to send you a loaner ahead of your trip.  You’ll activate that phone as your Verizon phone before you go.  Then while overseas your local phone number will follow you wherever you go.  The voice rates are somewhere between $.69 and $1.29 per minute – typical international roaming fees no matter whose phone you have.  For a full list of prices go to www.verizonwireless.com/goglobal   

When you return from your trip you’ll switch your phone back to your own, then ship the loaner back in the prepaid box.  The switching is done by calling Verizon.  The charge for the phone is typically just the $9.95 for the shipping.

So don’t be burdened by a clunky “global” (re AT&T) phone around here just for the occasional overseas trip.  Verizon’s loaner program works great for that occasional trip.

For anyone that bought their Verizon phone from us at SMART Phone and Photo, we’ll help you get your device switched back & forth and move your contacts to the loaner phone for free.