Spending time in different countries? Be careful to avoid your pocket being hollowed out by mobile companies

For an Indian, travelling abroad often involves being mugged by different mobile phone companies..

If you leave India, as I did, for a few months, which were meant to be a mixture of work and downtime with friends, and if in that period you spend chunks of time in different countries, then you must be super-careful and lucky to avoid your pocket being hollowed out by these faceless tricksters...

First, all the Indian sub-liars' roaming charges are geared towards the wealthy - the kind of Indian who won't notice when his phone bill fattens about four times for the pleasure of using calling and data that shouldn't cost that much..

Now, every phone company wants you to pay them in perpetuity, so no one makes it easy for you to have a reasonably priced service for just the time you are there; you inevitably end up paying extra towards the end of your trip for phone and data that you can't use..

In the meantime, your original malik, the Indian phone company, let's call them Lair-Hell, is lying in wait..