Originally Posted by
murtaza12
Get a local SIM card from the country where you live, which I think is UK, or is it Portugal? A bit confused there, either way get a number from the country that you live in, make that your permanent and get a local SIM card to wherever you get sent for assignments.
International SIM cards are kinda crap. There used to be one called SIM4Travel, but that went out of business. I have one from WorldSIM, and it's horrible. Their customer support team doesn't even understand basic terms and their service doesn't work very well outside the EU and the UK.
My dad has one too and he tried using it in Nairobi, UAE and Qatar, calls kept dropping and sometimes I wouldn't be able to call him either, it'd go straight to voicemail instead.
Hi and thanks for the reply!
I live in Portugal, my employer is in the UK and I get sent to work in other countries.
Sometimes it happens that I am, for example, in Denmark on an assignment and need to call the UK office with my Portuguese SIM card. For some reason sometimes it doesn't work and I can't reach them, I just get a "the number you're trying to reach is not available to you" message.
Shame to read about International SIM cards not being worth it, but I kind of expected that by now.
In Portugal the main SIM cards are from:
I need to find out which one works the best internationally, I guess. Any idea how I can find that out? any website that compares mobile networks?