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Hello

We are traveling to these locations at the end of November. We are from Arizona (USA). We are taking the Galaxy 8 phone which is android & our carrier is Sprint at home. We will use the phone only while land, to confirm our excursions. We are doing a 6 day DIY trip in the Port Douglas Area & then arriving for 2 days in Sydney prior to boarding a Celebrity Vessel for a cruise from Sydney to Auckland. Would appreciate any advise, thanking you in advance, John

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We are traveling to these locations at the end of November. We are from Arizona (USA). We are taking the Galaxy 8 phone which is android & our carrier is Sprint at home. We will use the phone only while land, to confirm our excursions. We are doing a 6 day DIY trip in the Port Douglas Area & then arriving for 2 days in Sydney prior to boarding a Celebrity Vessel for a cruise from Sydney to Auckland. Would appreciate any advise, thanking you in advance, John

 

 

I’d buy a prepaid Sim when you land. Probably Telsta for the best coverage, but make sure your phone isn’t locked to your current provider.

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The advantage of using simcorner for New Zealand is, it can be ordered ahead of time, so the op can use it to confirm shore excursions as soon as the ship comes within range of cell towers, rather than waiting till getting to a port that has stores that sell sim cards.

 

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Does Spring have a similar program to Verizon where you can purchase a travelpass? We pay 10 dollars per 24 hours with Verizon to have our phone "as if" we were in the USA. Same unlimited minutes, texts, data at our usual limits, etc. That is what we are planning on doing on port days. Take a look at Spring Global Roaming https://support.sprint.com/support/international/roaming/Kurri%20Kurri%2C%20Australia/dvc10880000prd

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A prepay "skinny" sim is good choice for NZ. For $20 you can get a months usage on a plan that is popular with the locals. The sim cards are available from a range of retailers and in NZ no ID is needed to get a prepay sim. Skinny runs on the spark network which has much better coverage than vodafone.

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The networks in Australia and NZ are all GSM. tmobile uses GSM too and so in principle the phone should work so long as you have a roaming package. If you're swapping the sim for a local AU/NZ one then the phone needs to be unlocked.

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The sprint global plan was great for us. Once we bought a ships internet package, we were on sprint Wi-Fi and could make all of the calls we wanted for no extra charge. Data and texting was always free no matter where we were. When we were in port, calls were $.20 a minute.

 

 

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