Re: SIM Card for the UK

"Dennis Ferguson" <dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:slrnfogacm.4g.dcferguson@akit-ferguson.com...
> On 2008-01-12, artweary@sent.com <artweary@sent.com> wrote:
>> I will be spending some time in London and have an unlocked gsm phone.
>> Any recommendations for a sim card and service for calling the US as
>> well as local in the UK would be appreciated!
>
> If you are going for a while, and sticking around the city, my favorite
> is Three, at
>
> http://www.three.co.uk
>
> If you buy a Stretch21 bundle (for GBP21) you get 700 minutes of calls
> to mobiles and landlines that you need to use up in a month. They also
> sell an Add-on ("Abroad") for GBP15 for a month of unlimited calling to
> the US, though I don't trust this and use Rebtel instead, plus a 3G
> Internet
> Add-on at a reasonable price. Note that the only catch with Three (beyond
> the fact that a lot of people don't trust their service) is that you must
> have a European 3G phone, not just a GSM phone. They're cheap, though.
>
> If this doesn't work for you then you could look at (in no particular
> order)
> T-Mobile, which is 15p per minute to landlines and mobile but can be used
> for 3G Internet service at GBP1/day, Tesco, which is 10p per minute to
> landlines and mobiles if you add GBP15 and uses O2's network, which has
> decent coverage in the country, and Virgin Mobile, at 15p per minute for
> the first 5 minutes per day and 5p after that to landlines only.
>
> While there are other alternatives I like Rebtel, at
>
> http://www.rebtel.com
>
> for making calls to the US through UK landline numbers. Your US contacts
> can also call you with this service via a US number, and you can make
> those
> calls free of (Rebtel) charges if you tell them to hang on, hang up the
> call and call the UK landline number they appear to be calling from back.
> This latter thing is a useful way to use up the 700 minutes from Three.
>
I also recommend trying Rebtel for the international calls. Even without
using the calling back feature, it is still cheap.
The most expensive part is the call to the local UK number from the mobile.




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