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Originally Posted by rfranzq
What phone did you use? Did you have a Sprint International SIM card?
Who gets those SIMs? What are the costs involved?
Anything else interesting that we should know or want to know?
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Sprint provides the SIMs for the multi-mode handsets that they sell... Years ago the CDMA providers had very few choices for a CDMA and GSM capable handsets, but I think the technology has worked itself into a more mainstream environment nowadays. I have a Google Nexus 5. While Google designed this handset to work on just about every carrier imaginable, there are other similar ones out there; Samsung has quite a few models off the top of my head... I'm guessing it's cheaper for them to manufacture a single 'jack of all trades' handset. For the most part it's all done in software so you just tell the radio chipset who it needs to be today (CDMA/LTE/GSM/HSDPAx/etc..) and viola!
I'm not sure that Sprint provides the SIMs to anyone that does not have a handset (and possibly account) on their network. I would not rush out to get one. For the most part Mobal beats their pricing... Consumer data costs are out of this world (~$15/MB for international use)... Only benefit I see with Sprint's SIM is that you can just take your phone and go run about the world. But you will pay for that privilege...