Hi community🍀
I am getting ready to takeoff to EU and use my VPS setup in United States /VPN tunnel and a traveling router, while working abroad, obviously, without my employer knowing. This community is being really helpful on tips how to do that and thank you for the support.
However, I’m wondering what to do with my personal phone.
We don’t use company phone at all, so once in a blue moon, my manager texts or call me, on my personal phone if there is an issue with our connectivity (which happens here and there).
My question is, how to work around my manager getting one of the local phone carriers talking the voicemail part in local language (in case I don’t pick up right away etc)?
I’m reading about using Google Fi phone (to which I will forward my US number) connected to the traveling router WiFi (obviously in an airplane mode) and answering calls and text that way. Is this a double solution?
Has anyone have any experience doing this?
Please for guidance and suggestions 
Thank you
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google fi will cancel your data roaming after 3 months outside usa, ask me how i know
Just use google voice and you can indicate in a setting that there shouldn’t be any vociemail indication that you are in a different geography. That should do it
@OP what did you end up going for? I’m trying to do the same thing but have some concerns. Sometimes when you call someone that’s out of the country, the sound of the ring is different so that could potentially blow a cover, I would think
This also happened to me. This was already known with Fi early adopters. I’ve even read in a few places that if this continuously happens, they will permanently suspend your service.
Hmm…so what do you suggest?
Do you have experience using it overseas?
So what solution do you guys suggest?
i think it’s in their terms of service they tell you upfront. you can still use calls and get sms but you can’t data roam. the calls are roaming charges not google voice rates so they are extremely expensive – again ask me how i know
I use Google voice for 3m each year while overseas (SE Asia). I just buy a local prepaid SIM card and use it for data by disabling my US SIM card data, which is what GV uses. Zero issues.
Honestly, I don’t have an answer other than Fi is not a solution that will work in your situation. Part of Fi’s TOS says that you must remain in the US at least more than half of the time in a 12-month period.
I can suggest that you tell your boss to communicate with you via email or chat online because, in part, your employer doesn’t pay your phone bill. Even if you have an unlimited plan, you are allowing your employer to utilize your personal resources on your dime. I made this very clear to my current job that I will not be using my phone for any work related tasks, including phone calls. If anything were to happen to my phone will on the job, I’m stuck with the damages because the liability falls on me. I told them unless the accounting dept is going to pay my monthly invoice I send them, then find another solution. So they did.
What if I end up getting new Google voice number and use it only during working hours on my laptop, for possible calls?
Coworkers call me as well, besides, the employer, once in a blue moon. However, you are right about not using your personal phone for work related calls, but still I don’t feel like debating this topic with them. I have a more important mission right now to complete. It’s called working abroad 
