{"id":7454,"date":"2015-10-01T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2015-10-01T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:30:12","slug":"peace-of-mind-versus-odds-of-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/peace-of-mind-versus-odds-of-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace of Mind Versus Odds of Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that came up for the upcoming travel was cellular phone usage and it was suggested that I should use roaming services.  I was then reading the options available to me and the only option that was not pay per use was to pay $15 a month add-on that would give me unlimited usage.  Without a plan, I would simply get any incoming text for free and outgoing would be five cents each.<\/p>\n<p>So thinking about out, since I am only going to be away for a few days it makes more sense financially to not get the monthly add-on.  A point was brought up though that many people usually get it just in case something happens.  Would you be inclined to get the monthly add-on here for the sake of a peace of mind?<\/p>\n<p>I am inclined to just risk it as my original intention for things like Internet usage was to simply use free wi-fi while receiving text messages whenever Internet options aren\u2019t available to communicate with others. I can\u2019t imagine being in a big city where if I really needed to use a phone for whatever reason that there wouldn\u2019t be ample of local options available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that came up for the upcoming travel was cellular phone usage and it was suggested that I should use roaming services. I was then reading the options available to me and the only option that was not pay per use was to pay $15 a month add-on that would give me unlimited usage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1149,175,1163,6022,1212,6023],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-add-ons","tag-cell-phone","tag-fees","tag-roaming","tag-services","tag-traveling-expense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1We","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}