Mobile Roaming: Cheapest Calls When You're Abroad

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buglawton wrote: »

well the Amazon reviews absolutely pan it:

Some of those reviews, not just one, both for and against, are rather less than honest.

Worldsim is on the same platform as several other global SIMs, which has been a merger of what were originally 2 separate arrangements, with some having therefore replaced SIMs a few months ago. The different brands could be thought of as resellers or white labels.

They work perfectly well almost all of the time, though there was a period in the winter of 2007/08 with no service on the one group, which has been under different ownership since then without problems.

Doc_N

Looking at the cost of the WorldSIM (and bearing in mind that it effectively costs £1 pm to keep 'alive') I think I'm best served by the Orange Europe Traveller add-on at £5.10 for 30 days:

200 mins @ 28.6p/min to make calls (normally 38.8p/min)
AND
200 mins to receive calls for free (normally 14.3p/min)

zxygoo

can someone please recommend a good place other than ebay where i can buy a Fido SIM?

JPR

Doc_N wrote: »

Looking at the cost of the WorldSIM (and bearing in mind that it effectively costs £1 pm to keep 'alive') I think I'm best served by the Orange Europe Traveller add-on at £5.10 for 30 days:

200 mins @ 28.6p/min to make calls (normally 38.8p/min)
AND
200 mins to receive calls for free (normally 14.3p/min)

Am I right in thinking that this is not available to PAYG customers? i.e. pay monthly only.

I need a SIM for a Europe for a month or so but don't need a contract.........

Semi_Quaver

I have an iPhone 4 (microsim), my sweetheart GF lives in the US, I visit her every couple of months (going again in two weeks time). Each time I inevitably, at some point, find a reason to use 3G data whilst out and about, I then return home and find a phone bill of £100.

I know this question has already been answered i.e. the best advice is to get a local sim on AT&T / T-Mobile / Verizon.

*****

My particular question is:

- Can I get a microsim on PAYG with no monthly commitments, decent price for 3G / data usage? Which carrier is best for this? I'd like to get a sim before I head out there next...

*****

Obviously it would be good to have PAYG so I'm not paying line rental for my US sim as I'm in the UK for 90% of the year!

Thank you everybody!

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JPR wrote: »

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I need a SIM for a Europe for a month or so but don't need a contract.........

If you're not attracted by a global SIM, take a look at O2 My Europe Extra

£10 fee for a month of free incoming calls, outgoing at 25 pence a minute

and maybe use a callback service

sgh42

Im off to the US soon & would like to know the cheapest option for data roaming & calls for within the US. I'm with O2 here in the UK.

Thanks
Steve

gabixli

All this very good advice is certainly better than just buying a foreign sim card!

cloelanber

hi this is my first post here so apologies if im in the wrong section etc. Anyway my wife and i are off to mexico in a june and i was wondering if anyone knew of the best sim that i could use from mexico to the uk the majority of numbers id be calling are mobiles, at the moment im with tesco mobile (got a cracking deal £10month for 500mins 500 txts and unlimited internet) and my mobile is unlocked to any networkjust want a pay as you go sim i can top up here before i go or one which i top up over there even if i have to wait and buy the sim in mexico. any help would be greatly appreciated. james

rnem170

Do mobile companies it the UK have to adhere to the EU law? I would have expected so, but if the wiki I found is correct -

h t t p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_on_roaming_charges_in_the_European_Union

- talkmobile are currently charging more than the law states for receiving a call.