Re: Sim card with Internet access

On 2007-07-11, Simple Simon <sisprr@googlemail.com> 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