Texting in from Paris to California and back??

Question

I will be going to Paris in July for a month and I want to be able to text my girlfriend back in California and she would like to text me back. Any ideas how to do this? Is there a phone u could get when I am there? Would my girlfriend have to do anything to her phone which is Verizon? Any info would help.

Answer 1

Orange France is the only carrier list on Verizon's website that supports texting to a Verizon customer.

You can most likely buy/rent a cheap prepaid phone there and use it for texting and just buy refill cards when needed.

Verizon charges .25c per sent message and .20c per received message for international texts.