Using a US iPhone 3Gs in Europe for 4 months...

My daughter will be on a study abroad program in Italy for 4 months and likely will be frequently traveling to other European countries on the weekends, etc. What is the best way for her to be able to use her iPhone without incurring the potentially massive roaming charges I have heard of. My worry is that she will inadvertently turn on the roaming feature and I will get slammed for a $5,000 bill for the month! Also, what about using Skype or similar with the 3Gs?

You get charged for 1 international roaming minute if the phone is not answered and the call goes to voicemail. Data charges will also be incurred, since the iPhone's Visual Voicemail is accessed as data, not voice. Airplane mode will prevent all of that, of course. As an alternative to data, she can call her own number and press * during the voicemail greeting, then enter her voicemail password to access voicemail (calling her own number would, of course, incur another 1 minute charge...).
You might want to consider an international roaming voice and data package from AT&T.
http://wireless.att.com/learn/international

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