There are many web sites where you can find information about international sim cards, but I have yet to see a site where all are compared. Mostly, the sites like to promote a particular card (who sponsors them?)
These are the cards that I have found, in no particular order. I will add to this post as I find more.
I will try to take the time to produce a comparison table with whatever information I can find. In the mean time, I will continue adding to the list as I find more. If you have any ideas, please send them to me. [contact-form]
As I mentioned before, our plan is to vacation in New Zealand, which happens to be my favorite country to visit in the world. If you’ve been there, you know why.
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T-Mobile Cards at Walmart
Here is our review of T-Mobile Prepaid Service. T-Mobile is the fourth largest cell phone operator in the U.S., and is owned by Deutsche Telekom, the German national telephone company www.telekom.com. They operate all over the country, on GSM bands 850 and 1900. Skimming their website, at www.t-mobile.com , as of the date of this post, the pre-paid kit consisting of a sim card, support documentation, and $3.34 usage credit, cost $6.99. There are several prepaid handsets, ranging from about $20 to about $50. All are dual band 850/1900 except for the $50 Samsung t349 which adds the 1800 band, to make it a triband.
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Okay, so by now, you know that you need an unlocked quad band GSM phone for world-wide travel. The question now is, what about the sim card. What kind do I need?
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There are four bands on which GSM phones operate, 850, 900, 1800 and 1900. The 850/1900 bands are mostly used in the Americas, while the 900/1800 bands are predominantly used everywhere else. Phones are manufactured with 2, 3, or all four of these bands, and it is important that the phone you use matches the bands of the system in the country you are in. Since quad band phones operate on all of them, and don’t cost much more than the others, they make the best purchase for a traveler. Also, it is important to make sure that the handset is unlocked for travel.
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So, I purchased a quad-band unlocked cell phone to use on our upcoming trip to New Zealand. At the same time, I purchased a “Pay as you Go” sim card from T-Mobile.
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After struggling through two trips to Europe without a cell phone, it seemed like time to find out about traveling with one. In the U.S. we call them “cell phones” while in Europe, and I believe in most of the rest of the world, they are called “mobile phones” or simply “mobiles”.
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Well, my family and I are planning a small vacation to New Zealand. Since we are flying down there without any hotel reservations (flying standby), I knew that we would need a mobile telephone (cellphone) that would work and not cost too much per minute. Also, my daughter will be spending a couple of months in England this summer before she starts University, and my mother in law, in a third country, has a need for a phone.
After a time consuming web search, I found that there was no one place where information about traveling with your phone could be found. So, I decided to create one.
For now, I will post my information with wordpress blogging software. Later, I may move it to a different platform.
If you have any information that you would like to add, please email me at simcardinfo (at) gmail.com.
