Keep your phone bill slim while abroad

I travel abroad a lot and sometimes for only one or two days. During these trips the work does not wait for you. It is imperative to at least read your emails. For this, you have two options : Subscribe to a local operator (new SIM card for two days O_o) or you pay extra charges of Data-Roaming (if available in the country) .

I just didn't want to choose between these two proposals. So I took a Raspberry pie, an old cell phone, a SIM card and after some hacks, it became a server that sends me SMS's (free) when I get an email. Awesome!

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1. Keep your phone bill slim while abroad *Need a bit of hacking
2. Shubham Sharma Developer Relations shubham@mailjet.com @shub_s
3. Headline should look like this Travelling ? I love it ! And it is a part of my job
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5. Work never stops
7. Headline should look like this Why not use 3G abroad ?
8. French Mobile network partnerships
10. Headline should look like this Roaming :)
11. Headline should look like this !!!!!!!!!
12. Subscribe to a local Mobile Network ?
13. For only 1 or 2 days ?
15. Headline should look like this I do not want to choose
16. Headline should look like this You will need some stuff to do that
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18. Headline should look like this Gammu
19. Headline should look like this Gammu
20. Headline should look like this And this for Free ! @shub_s
21. Headline should look like this ? @shub_s shubham@mailjet.com