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TAKE TWO! ONE WILL BE BETTER. Advice especially for newbies.
A bit of advice especially for newbies.


If you are a newbie and you have not bought an international SIM card yet, you are in luck because the people here are pretty knowledgeable and willing to share. Most new people here will probably have one International SIM card. And have come here because when they tried to use it, the experience was less than optimal.

Here is my one bit of advice. I first used this expression with regards to taking digital photos. TAKE TWO! ONE WILL BE BETTER. At a certain level this is trite. One could take two rotten photos and one of them would be better. So be it.

Here is a list of some reasons why having two international SIMs along on trips is better than having one.

1. One SIM just might not work. Country issues. Company issues [goes out of business--it happens a lot in this industry]. Network issues. Whatever. There is a chance that the other card will work. You need to make sure you get different SIM cards for this to work, though.

2. Rates. One SIM might have better rates than the other.
Or one might have better data rates than the other. Sometimes half as much or more.

3. You lose one. It would help in this case to have two phones.

I think many of the people here take two or more SIMs with them.
But in a sense they are hobbyists and playing with the SIMs, errr, testing them is part of the experience.

I suspect others will be able to mention some other reasons having more than one SIM with you can be a good idea.