I haven’t had much of a need to read up on international cell phone plans, but recently, I began collaborating with another grad student who’s in Namibia, Africa, and unfortunately, there’s no AT&T coverage, and so using our iPhones to call and text is an impossibility on a student budget (at least as far as my Googling as been able to uncover). Ideally, it sure would be nice if there would be a special ‘international researcher rate.’ Maybe this could happen through some sort of cooperative pool of universities from around the world? I guess today I’m feeling infused with optimism.