PrePaidGSM > Operators > USA > T-Mobile
| Pay As You Go | |||
| Recharge | Included minutes (all incoming/outgoing calls) |
Gold rewards Whenever Minutes |
Validity (days) |
| $ 10.00 € 7.60 |
30 (€ 0.25/min) |
35 (€ 0.22/min) |
90 |
| $ 30.00 € 22.85 |
160 (€ 0.14/min) |
184 (€ 0.12/min) |
90 |
| $ 50.00 € 38.10 |
400 (€ 0.09/min) |
460 (€ 0.08/min) |
90 |
| $ 100.00 € 76.15 |
1000 (€ 0.08/min) |
365 | |
| Pay by the day | |||
| Calls to T-Mobile Mo-Su 0-24 |
Other Calls (outgoing+incoming) Mo-Su 7-19 |
Other Calls (outgoing+incoming) Mo-Su 19-7 |
Daily fee when you use your phone |
| free | US$ 0.10 € 0.08 |
free | US$ 1.00 € 0.80 |
Gold Rewards
Once you've added $100.00 in refills to your account, you automatically become a Gold Rewards customer and get more minutes with every refill and your minutes do not expire for one full year. Gold Rewards program does not apply to Sidekick pricing and is available on Pay As You Go plan only.
Sidekick Prepaid
For US$ 1.00 per day you get unlimited email, web browsing, instant messaging and text messaging.
Calls are billed at US $0.15/minute.
Useful information
If you plan to visit the USA from time to time and want to keep your number, the best thing is to refill your minutes with $100. This means the cost per minute is cheapest (10c), you don't have to buy more minutes every 3 months or lose the number and the minutes roll over to the next year. Just remember before the year ends to buy more minutes, which you can do online. After the initial $100, you can buy the smallest amount, for $10. This means that for $100 (plus cost of sim) the first year and then $10 a year after that, you will have a permanent US number. Of course, if you use up the minutes you have to buy more.
| Additional services and costs | |
| Messaging | SMS sending (USA & Canada): US$ 0.10 - € 0.08 SMS sending (International): US$ 0.35 - € 0.27 SMS receiving: US$ 0.10 - € 0.08 MMS sending/receiving: US$ 0.25 - € 0.19 |
| Voicemail | same as voice calls |
| Data calls | Very limited T-Zones access for free: the Weather Channel seems to be the only "free" one left. All others require a data plan (see below) |
| Debiting method | 60/60 |
| Validity | All sim cards have a validity of 90 days after your credit expires (see above for credit validity) |
Prepaid talk, text and data bundles
You can choose among 4 different bundles including free minutes, texts and data:
$70 unlimited talk and text: with 2 GB data allowance;
$50 unlimited talk and text: with 100 MB data allowance;
$30 talk and text: with 1500 talk minutes or texts allowance with 30 MB data allowance;
$15 unlimited text: with voice minutes at 10¢ per minute.
International Calls
| International Calls | |
| Puerto Rico | $0.40 plus airtime per minute |
| Canada & Mexico | $0.50 plus airtime per minute |
| Guam, Jamaica and Caribbean | $0.90 plus airtime per minute |
| Tuvalu, Vanuatu | $5.10 plus airtime per minute |
| Rest of the World | $1.60 plus airtime per minute |
| International Roaming | ||
| Canada | Mexico | |
| In/Out calls | $0.69 - € 0.53 | $1.49 - € 1.14 |
| Outgoing SMS | $0.10 - € 0.08 | $0.35 - € 0.27 |
| Incoming SMS | $0.05 - € 0.04 | $0.05 - € 0.04 |
| In/Out MMS | $0.25 - € 0.19 | $0.25 - € 0.19 |
| Data calls | $0.015/KB - € 0.01/KB | $0.01/KB - € 0.007/KB |
International roaming is available in Canada and Mexico only.
