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  1. #1
    Todd Allcock
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    At 11 Jul 2007 16:42:43 -0700 Simple Simon wrote:
    > I'm a Brit who will visit USA on holiday for 2 weeks with my wife. We
    > want to use our Sony Ericsson W850i cell phones with a US sim card to
    > make calls within the States, calls to the UK and access the Internet.
    >
    > Can anyone suggest sim cards that will do these things?


    Not really. The US is waaaay behind the rest of the world with respect
    to international calling and internet access on prepaid SIMs.

    Here in the USA, we have two national GSM carriers- AT&T (formerly
    "Cingular") and T-Mobile USA. Both charge over $1/minute for calls to
    the UK. T-Mo charges $0.10/min for USA to USA calls versus $0.25/min on
    AT&T.

    T-Mo doesn't offer internet access on prepaid, and AT&T charges $10 for
    5MB of data transfer, if I remember correctly.

    Mobile phone use in American is actually quite inexpensive IF you have a
    contract/monthly plan. Prepaid, however, is years behind.




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  2. #2
    Dennis Ferguson
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    Re: Sim card with Internet access

    On 2007-07-12, Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
    > At 11 Jul 2007 16:42:43 -0700 Simple Simon wrote:
    >> I'm a Brit who will visit USA on holiday for 2 weeks with my wife. We
    >> want to use our Sony Ericsson W850i cell phones with a US sim card to
    >> make calls within the States, calls to the UK and access the Internet.
    >>
    >> Can anyone suggest sim cards that will do these things?

    >
    > Not really. The US is waaaay behind the rest of the world with respect
    > to international calling and internet access on prepaid SIMs.
    >
    > Here in the USA, we have two national GSM carriers- AT&T (formerly
    > "Cingular") and T-Mobile USA. Both charge over $1/minute for calls to
    > the UK. T-Mo charges $0.10/min for USA to USA calls versus $0.25/min on
    > AT&T.
    >
    > T-Mo doesn't offer internet access on prepaid, and AT&T charges $10 for
    > 5MB of data transfer, if I remember correctly.


    I'm curious. The T-Mobile prepaid page has this:

    Sidekick® rates
    Get unlimited e-mail, Web browsing, domestic instant messaging,
    and domestic text messaging for $1 per day, and spend only $0.15
    per minute for nationwide calls.

    What is that?

    T-Mobile in the UK offers prepaid Internet access (including HSDPA) for
    1 GBP per day. I always thought the above was the USA-equivalent of that.

    Dennis Ferguson



  3. #3
    Dennis Ferguson
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    Re: Sim card with Internet access

    On 2007-07-11, Simple Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
    > I'm a Brit who will visit USA on holiday for 2 weeks with my wife. We
    > want to use our Sony Ericsson W850i cell phones with a US sim card to
    > make calls within the States, calls to the UK and access the Internet.
    >
    > Can anyone suggest sim cards that will do these things? Since we get
    > unlimited access to the Internet in UK for about $10 a month each, we
    > would like a sim card that gives us unlimited access to the Internet
    > in USA, too, if possible.


    If you need to us the W850i's then you are probably restricted to
    T-Mobile's prepaid offering in the US, i.e.

    http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/d...plancategory=4

    Cingular, and its resellers, may not work where you are without GSM 850
    support on the phone. T-Mobile may not give you service if you travel
    in their national roaming areas, either, but they are at least 1900 MHz
    where they have native coverage (which includes most cities and suburban
    areas).

    T-Mobile's price covers calls to anywhere in the US, but their
    international calling rates are repulsive. You may need to look
    for a calling card to get decent rates to the UK.

    I don't know anything about T-Mobile Internet access, though the
    web page above has a few suggestive comments.

    Dennis Ferguson



  4. #4
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: Sim card with Internet access

    At 12 Jul 2007 18:58:45 +0000 Dennis Ferguson wrote:

    > I'm curious. The T-Mobile prepaid page has this:
    >
    > Sidekick® rates
    > Get unlimited e-mail, Web browsing, domestic instant messaging,
    > and domestic text messaging for $1 per day, and spend only $0.15
    > per minute for nationwide calls.
    >
    > What is that?



    The Sidekick (also known in other parts of the world as the "Hiptop,")
    manufactured by a company called Danger, is a sort of Blackberry for
    teenagers. A QWERTY-keyboarded e-mail/web phone that had it's 15-minutes
    of fame here in the US when Paris Hilton's was "hacked into" revealing
    all of her contact's info a few years ago.


    It connects to a special proxy server maintained by Dangerserver that
    allows access to the web, e-mail, etc.

    Only the Sidekick/Hiptop devices can parse the information sent to/from
    Danger's server- it doesn't work with any other mobile, like the OP's
    Sonys.

    Arguably, the OP could buy a Sidekick from T-Mo when he gets here, but at
    $300 would likely not be interested.

    Sadly T-Mo offers no prepaid data options for non-Danger devices, except
    their free "T-Zones" service which is a Very small "walled garden" of WAP
    sites that allow you to buy ringtones/wallpaper, access your account
    balance, and access CNN, ESPN, and ABC News WAP sites.


    > T-Mobile in the UK offers prepaid Internet access (including HSDPA) for
    > 1 GBP per day. I always thought the above was the USA-equivalent of

    that.

    Sadly, no, since the Sidekick plan is a device specific plan.





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