Everyone knows that if you take your cellular phone out of the country you are setting yourself up for a gargantuan phone bill the following month. Bills can easily climb to hundreds of even thousands of dollars if you are not careful, and that is just on a normal phone that only makes calls.

The features that make the iPhone such an amazing device are the same features that can make the iPhone the most expensive phone to take out of the country. All of the apps that exist on the iPhone are data intensive, and they can eat up hundreds of megabytes without you even noticing. An iPhone owner traveling out of the country could easily find that he or she owes thousands of dollars to AT&T if the correct preparations are not made in advance.

This Associated Press article outlines some of the key preparations iPhone owners should make before traveling abroad.

Some of the suggestions include, setting your iPhone to flight mode, using wireless internet hotspots as often as possible and using skype for phone calls. Check the article for more tips to be sure you don’t overpay next time you leave the country.

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