SIM card for world cell phone usage?
May 15, 2007, 11:45 pm
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SIM card for world cell phone usage?
I remember finding a company a while back that for a fee of like $50 gave you unlimited inbound minutes to a GSM cell in most countries, and had reasonable outgoing charges to boot. Anyone know of any firms like this - and most importantly, have any first hand experiences?
May 16, 2007, 7:47 am
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May 16, 2007, 5:07 pm
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Here is a link to an objective comparison between many offerings.
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/international.html
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/international.html
May 18, 2007, 12:44 am
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I like this one - it costs 25 pounds (UK) but you get 25 pounds credit, so there is no charge for the card if you use the time, and their rates are quite good in Europe, spotty in the rest of the world (and they shipped it to me in the US by air with no shipping charge):
http://www.freeglobalsim.com/
http://www.freeglobalsim.com/
I remember finding a company a while back that for a fee of like $50 gave you unlimited inbound minutes to a GSM cell in most countries, and had reasonable outgoing charges to boot. Anyone know of any firms like this - and most importantly, have any first hand experiences?
Last edited by BigFlyer; May 18, 2007 at 6:31 pm Reason: to add that there was not shipping charge for shipment by air
May 18, 2007, 6:25 pm
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I remember finding a company a while back that for a fee of like $50 gave you unlimited inbound minutes to a GSM cell in most countries, and had reasonable outgoing charges to boot. Anyone know of any firms like this - and most importantly, have any first hand experiences?
May 18, 2007, 6:31 pm
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Some of them do have that very high cost to the caller, they have special numbers in Liechtenstein, Estonia, or Iceland that are very high cost.
The one I mentioned two posts above has its incoming numbers on the Isle of Man. Calls to it are billed at the same rate as calls to other UK cell phones. So, while the calls are still more expensive than calls to UK landlines, they are more reasonable than many of the calls to the other international SIMS.
The one I mentioned two posts above has its incoming numbers on the Isle of Man. Calls to it are billed at the same rate as calls to other UK cell phones. So, while the calls are still more expensive than calls to UK landlines, they are more reasonable than many of the calls to the other international SIMS.