[Scoundreller]

The previous sentence about SIM cards:

"We tried to buy 3, and we were told they were free."

Welcome to not-America. I think the free data reloads are a sign of how cheap mobile bandwidth could be.

Maybe they can bring back that practice.

[dheera]

> "All we had to do was download an app and click on some mysterious Chinese advertisements"

I'm sure the app was tracking everything about you and selling your personal data. Apps do this in the US too, but just saying -- there are no free lunches.

For frequent international travellers, Google Fi and T-mobile both give free international data roaming at 2G/3G speeds, by the way.