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Prepaid Multi-Country SIM Cards
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| I'm preparing for a trip to Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and Egypt,
and have been looking into prepaid SIM cards. There are a load of them
out there with a load of different rates.
Any suggestions?
At first glance, GeoSim seems like the best deal for calls between the
U.S. and the mobile once you get over the high initial cost, because it
offers free incoming calls in a lot of countries (at the cost of calling
a UK mobile number for the caller to the mobile phone).
"http://www.globalsimcard.co.uk/index.php". They charge £10/year after
the first year to keep it active.
Maxroam (which just launched yesterday) seems like the best deal for
calls within each country, but has fairly high prices for international
calling. "http://maxroam.com/". They don't charge a yearly fee, but they
deduct EUR 1 for every month you don't use your account. No free
incoming calls.
All of them are bad if you ever try to use them to call within the U.S..
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| Mike S. 2007-09-28, 10:33 am |
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In article < 46fccd5e$0$27177$742
ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>I'm preparing for a trip to Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and Egypt,
>and have been looking into prepaid SIM cards. There are a load of them
>out there with a load of different rates.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>At first glance, GeoSim seems like the best deal for calls between the
>U.S. and the mobile once you get over the high initial cost, because it
>offers free incoming calls in a lot of countries (at the cost of calling
>a UK mobile number for the caller to the mobile phone).
>"http://www.globalsimcard.co.uk/index.php". They charge £10/year after
>the first year to keep it active.
>
>Maxroam (which just launched yesterday) seems like the best deal for
>calls within each country, but has fairly high prices for international
>calling. "http://maxroam.com/". They don't charge a yearly fee, but they
>deduct EUR 1 for every month you don't use your account. No free
>incoming calls.
>
>All of them are bad if you ever try to use them to call within the U.S..
Suggest you look at the international forum at www.prepaidgsm.net where
there are discussions of many of the alternatives.
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| Dennis Ferguson 2007-09-28, 3:33 pm |
| On 2007-09-28, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
> At first glance, GeoSim seems like the best deal for calls between the
> U.S. and the mobile once you get over the high initial cost, because it
> offers free incoming calls in a lot of countries (at the cost of calling
> a UK mobile number for the caller to the mobile phone).
If you forward a US number to the mobile phone you might want to make
sure you know the rate for calling an Isle of Man mobile number in
particular (or, maybe, warn your callers about that if you don't forward).
While many companies offer a single, average rate for calling any UK mobile
number, the cheapest sometimes charge different rates to different UK
carriers and these often charge quite high prices for Isle of Man/Channel
Islands numbers.
Dennis Ferguson
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