After a bit of research, I found out about Straight Talk.

A friend of mine in San Francisco had the same problem with AT&T in his neighborhood.ĪT&T microcell extends coverage inside your house This worked well to solve the immediate problem. When I called AT&T about it, they sent me a microcell device (for free) that extended the coverage inside the house, using my broadband internet connection.

AT&T coverage had been great for me in Somerville, but in this neighborhood of tall, historic houses, the coverage was non-existent.

At the beginning of 2013 I began a house-sitting situation in the South End of Boston.

Part 1: Switching from AT&T to Straight Talk and getting a contract-free iPhone 5 I need a lot of storage space for all the apps that I keep on my devices, so that’s why I use a 32GB iPhone.

Since I teach online courses about mobile apps I like to have the latest iPhone and iPad when possible.

I had a 32GB iPhone 4s and I wanted to upgrade to an iPhone 5, but wasn’t even close to the end of my contract.

Before all the research I was paying between $70 and 75/month to AT&T for my plan.

I wanted to use my iPhone in all these locations.

In 2013 I planned to spend 4 months in Boston, 6 months in Mexico, then a few weeks in California, then Boston and Vermont for the last 6 weeks of the year.

(Warning: Long, detailed post! Feel free to ignore if you don’t care about these things :)

This solution may not work for everyone, but some aspects of it may be useful for you, depending on your situation. Since many of you have asked, I’ll write about it here. It took a lot of research, but I finally found a solution that works well for me. As I was preparing for living in Mexico for six months, I began to research the options for using my iPhone there, without paying astronomical fees.

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