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MATHA531 · 11-02-2007, 15:24

You can wait till you get to London or wherever, pop into a Carphone Warehouse and they will give you a Mobile World sim if you top up for £10 and you get the full £10 worth of credit...very convenient for calling the USA, Canada, the land of Oz, New Zealand. Virgin mobile cards have traditionally cost 10 quid but come with 5 quid of credit and for a while in the past they were giving away a 5 quid recharge with the pack making the effective cost 0....when I was in London three weeks ago, T Mobile UK was selling their sim pack for £5 (no credit) but they have the great £2 add on for 50 minutes to the USA and Canada as well as 12p/minute to other networks in the UK (as opposed to 35to 40p for others to other networks)...if you are travelling to the UK and know where you will be staying, you can request free sim cards if they're available on line, have them posted to your hotel and held for arrival...get mail all the time as I use the same hotel all the time and they hold the mail.

As noted, there are many UK sim cards available on ebay for prices like 99p; unfortunately they don't post internationally for the most part.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	11-02-2007, 15:24 You can wait till you get to London or wherever, pop into a Carphone Warehouse and they will give you a Mobile World sim if you top up for £10 and you get the full £10 worth of credit...very convenient for calling the USA, Canada, the land of Oz, New Zealand. Virgin mobile cards have traditionally cost 10 quid but come with 5 quid of credit and for a while in the past they were giving away a 5 quid recharge with the pack making the effective cost 0....when I was in London three weeks ago, T Mobile UK was selling their sim pack for £5 (no credit) but they have the great £2 add on for 50 minutes to the USA and Canada as well as 12p/minute to other networks in the UK (as opposed to 35to 40p for others to other networks)...if you are travelling to the UK and know where you will be staying, you can request free sim cards if they're available on line, have them posted to your hotel and held for arrival...get mail all the time as I use the same hotel all the time and they hold the mail. As noted, there are many UK sim cards available on ebay for prices like 99p; unfortunately they don't post internationally for the most part.