New to GSM and SIM cards

ggking7 · **New to GSM and SIM cards -** 03-02-2008, 19:32

I live in the US but I travel a lot and I'd like to set myself up with a good system for international cell phone usage. I've been doing a lot of research and I plan to buy a GSM quad-band unlocked cell phone. I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep the phone working internationally at low rates.

I've been looking at the Yackie SIM card and the rates look good except in the US. Maybe I should buy a local T-Mobile SIM card for use in the US and a Yackie or similar card for traveling? Another option would be to buy a SIM card specific to the country I'm going to from a company like telestial.com, or possibly buy one once I get there. What would you guys recommend?

I'm also planning on using grandcentral.com to forward all calls to my US grandcentral.com number to whichever number I happen to be using. They currently only forward to numbers in the US, but they will be enabling international call forwarding soon. It looks like I could have them forward to my US Yackie number. Once grandcentral.com enables international call forwarding I could also have them forward to the 354 Yackie number. Is that in Iceland?

Are there any other cards that would work well in my situation? Any recommendations or advice for me?

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ggking7 (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 63 Join Date: 03 Feb 2008 Country:	New to GSM and SIM cards - 03-02-2008, 19:32 I live in the US but I travel a lot and I'd like to set myself up with a good system for international cell phone usage. I've been doing a lot of research and I plan to buy a GSM quad-band unlocked cell phone. I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep the phone working internationally at low rates. I've been looking at the Yackie SIM card and the rates look good except in the US. Maybe I should buy a local T-Mobile SIM card for use in the US and a Yackie or similar card for traveling? Another option would be to buy a SIM card specific to the country I'm going to from a company like telestial.com, or possibly buy one once I get there. What would you guys recommend? I'm also planning on using grandcentral.com to forward all calls to my US grandcentral.com number to whichever number I happen to be using. They currently only forward to numbers in the US, but they will be enabling international call forwarding soon. It looks like I could have them forward to my US Yackie number. Once grandcentral.com enables international call forwarding I could also have them forward to the 354 Yackie number. Is that in Iceland? Are there any other cards that would work well in my situation? Any recommendations or advice for me?