International Travel Alert (credit cards, talk, data, text)

I made a few telephone calls for Jim when we were on the  Digby Bay Ferry to Nova Scotia on July 17, 2013. One of his credit cards was declined & we learned that the credit cardcompanies needed to be notified prior to leaving the United States. I then checked my data information and it appeared as if I had plenty of text, minutes and data but I did see 3 overages. I did not know what that meant but I did paid extra on my cell bill in addition to setting aside a few extra dollars just in case. A few hours later, I received a text from AT&T stating to call them and the call is free. It turned out that I used 8.7 MB of data at $15.00 per MB at a cost of $131.00. I got an international plan for $30.00 for 100MB of data and they waived $100.00. This plan did not include calls or text and a few days later I called to actually find out and was told that I used  23 minutes at $23.00 dollars. This was a dollar per minute. Again I got another $30.00 international plan giving me 80 minutes and they put the 23 minutes under the plan. I also got a $10.00 international plan for text. All minutes, data, text and voice mail is included even if I do not answer the telephone. It was suggested that I turn off the cell telephone while on the Harley.

JUST BE AWARE