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It can be costly. I moved from Ireland to the US and kept my Irish number active - the cost was a €5 topup every 6 months. Going in reverse is much harder - a
by snappieT 5y ago
It can be costly.
I moved from Ireland to the US and kept my Irish number active - the cost was a €5 topup every 6 months.
Going in reverse is much harder - a lot of the budget phone providers in the US don't have any roaming offering. Best I can tell, you really need to have an account with a real provider, and that realistically looks like $20/mo (Google Fi), 20x more expensive than the reverse.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoThen it sounds like changing bank is a better answer for many.
- snappieT 5y agoThis oversimplifies the situation - if every US bank uses SMS and you want to retain a US bank, what do you do?
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoThat's such a huge "if" that an alternative immediately came to mind: TransferWise doesn't require a US phone number, but you can have a US account number with them.