Anyone have any experience with the National Geo. travel SIM?
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Anyone have any experience with the National Geo. travel SIM?
Here is a link.
UK number, free incoming in a lot of countries. Outgoing is competitive with roaming but not local SIMs. Seems like a possible replacement for the United Mobile product. Im curious to see what others think about the rates and if anyone has experience with it. Thanks.
UK number, free incoming in a lot of countries. Outgoing is competitive with roaming but not local SIMs. Seems like a possible replacement for the United Mobile product. Im curious to see what others think about the rates and if anyone has experience with it. Thanks.
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Looks like the rates page is down. However, they are only selling this in combination with a phone. Probably a very cheap phone. Most folks will probably not have a need for the phone. At $79 with a $29 credit, it just seems high.
I saw this on the main page : 0.25 service charge per minute for calls to a cell phone or other NG Travel Phone user
I saw this on the main page : 0.25 service charge per minute for calls to a cell phone or other NG Travel Phone user
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Available on Amazon for $49 without the phone.
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What do you want it for? Is it just to get over roaming charges? It might prompt people to come up with some other options. I travel to the US a lot and bought a Virgin mobile to get a local number, and so I do not get hit with roaming on my UK mobiles when I am there.
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What do you want it for? Is it just to get over roaming charges? It might prompt people to come up with some other options. I travel to the US a lot and bought a Virgin mobile to get a local number, and so I do not get hit with roaming on my UK mobiles when I am there.
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Are you a drug dealer? I thought I was bad with the amount of phones I have
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This at Moneysupermarket and/or 0044 might be useful.
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I couldn't find a current price list for the SIM. The one I saw on the NG website had a 2008 date.
I use roaming SIMs and like them. I went with the EKit Dual IMSI SIM which gives me free incoming in Canada. They also give you a US number which rings the SIM for an extra $0.19 a minute. I forward my own DID to it off my Asterisks box for $0.07 a minute.
If you are in a country for a while, a prepaid SIM makes sense. But for short visits, roaming SIMs make sense. This is particularly true if you use third party callback services. If your other phone is an international Blackberry, you can have calls for $0.07 a minute in close to 80 countries. This is nothing, however, compared to what the guys with iPhone international FAN accounts have. You now have VOIP over 3g in tons of countries included in the $64.99. It is almost making a convert to the iThingy.
I use roaming SIMs and like them. I went with the EKit Dual IMSI SIM which gives me free incoming in Canada. They also give you a US number which rings the SIM for an extra $0.19 a minute. I forward my own DID to it off my Asterisks box for $0.07 a minute.
If you are in a country for a while, a prepaid SIM makes sense. But for short visits, roaming SIMs make sense. This is particularly true if you use third party callback services. If your other phone is an international Blackberry, you can have calls for $0.07 a minute in close to 80 countries. This is nothing, however, compared to what the guys with iPhone international FAN accounts have. You now have VOIP over 3g in tons of countries included in the $64.99. It is almost making a convert to the iThingy.
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Welcome to Flyertalk. Well, I travel to the UK a lot but I already have a number of SIMS for the UK as mentioned above. In the next roughly two - three months I am probably going to Switzerland, China, Italy, Spain (twice), Mexico and maybe France, as well as the UK. It is the non-UK ones I am looking for a SIM for.