Tom Johnstone wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > Alan S wrote:
> > [deleted]
> >
> >>and for the SIM you need a supplier that enables international
> >>roaming.
> >
> >
> > Indeed. And you need to make sure that it allows interantional roaming
> > in the *countries* which you want to visit and on the *networks* which
> > you want to use in those countries.
> >
> > For example my Australian Vodafone Red SIM could only roam in a few
> > other countries (IIRC, mainly the UK and Japan) and could hardly roam
> > inside Australia (IIRC, only in Tasmania and part of Victoria). (For me,
> > ) This made this SIM useless outside Australia and only partly useful
> > inside Australia (because Telstra has better coverage in small towns,
> > but I could not roam onto Telstra's network).
> >
> > OTOH, my Dutch (I live in the Netherlands) Vodafone iZi SIM can roam
> > most everywhere, but at much higher call rates (than the Australian
> > Vodafone Red SIM).
> >
> > Bottom line: Check with the provider(s) of *your* SIM(s), because
> > there is no universal answer. Often the provider's website has the
> > required details.
>
> All good advice. There are also some international SIMs which give you a
> better overall roaming rate across many countries, but will not be as
> cheap as a home SIM from a specific country. A popular one at the moment
> is the Riiing SIM:
>
> http://www.riiing.com/
>
> Which will give reasonable rates for many countries, and for which
> incoming calls to many countries are free.
>
> Much more useful detail about GSM prepaid SIMs around the world is
> available at:
>
> http://www.prepaidgsm.net/index.html
>
> Including listings of different providers, as well as a good dicussion
> forum.
>
> Tom
You can now get riiing in Australia at http://www.riiing.com.au/
Adam
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