Hi everyone. I wanted to weigh in on this discussion as well. Telestial is criminally expensive. Last year I talked to the owner, Ken Grunski, about buying SIM cards wholesale to sell to students. The wholesale prices were only $1 or $2 dollars lower than the retail prices, and, in some cases, they were much higher!
Needless to say, I didn't pursue that option. I still launched my company,
Zengo Wireless, to provide affordable SIM cards to students. While it's true that there are a lot of costs associated with importing the SIM cards (in addition to wholesale rates not being as great as they could be), it is unfortunate that some businesses seek to rob people blind by charging customers 2-3 times more than the value of the SIM card and the old phones they sell. (And, to be honest, that is what motivated me to start Zengo Wireless.)
Not being able to find a reliable wholesaler of country specific SIM cards meant that we had to start smaller than we had originally intended (we currently sell the United Mobile SIM and the brand new Motorola v190 (quad band GSM)).
We'd like to try to expand to country specific cards (and maybe some of the other international sim offerings). We're looking for reliable SIM card wholesalers in the UK, Spain, France, and Italy, if you know of any.
Khalisha
Zengo Wireless
www.zengowireless.com