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Originally Posted by Ukap
Britishsims
Their price is higher however, I cannot purchase a British sim directly from a UK site using USA address. You have to use your credit card billing zip code which is in the USA & the UK sites do not allow me to do that.
I have United-Mobile sim that I am using while in Europe. However I will be one week in UK. UM calls from UK to USA will be 40c. I thought if I got a British sim I could call the USA for less than UM rate.
Some rates on Britishsims are showing at 5p a minute - approx 10c USA
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Good idea but there is absolutely no need to buy the card in advance...wait till you get to London or check out the T Mobile UK web site which often has promotions that give you free sim cards or perhaps sim cards for £1 each....see if your first hotel will accept any mail for you and have them sent there...T Mobile UK sim cards have no credit on them anyway and really aren't activated till your first top up which you can do with swipe card they provide with the package at almost any chemist, petrol station or grocery store...
BTW T Mobile UK calls to the USA can be a cheap as 3p/minute using a third party known as yourcallworld check their web site...somewhere there they give a link to purchase T Mobile UK sim cards for £1 each.
You can also buy a bundle of minutes from T Mobile UK of 50 minutes for £2 with 60 days validity...by my math that comes to 4p/minute if you use the whole thing and you can call direct without a third party number.
Orange UK requires registration and their rates of the Orange UK Call abroad sim...calls to the USA and Canada are 5p/minute....the card is free, easy to acquire once you get to the UK (it requires an initial top up of £10 but the cards don't expire easily and with eu roaming rates coming down quickly, who knows in the future they may be usable for very little throughout the eu. They're also easy to keep valid and active by simply sending a text message every so often which are cheap but count as a billable event require every 6 months or so.....
I wouldn't pay 20 quid for a British sim card, at least not today when several companies are literally giving them away....you can also continue to use the UM card to receive calls...
You'll just have to decide if having the number in advance is that important to you to spend the extra money.