Piranha Mobile Sim Card

[kctopitz]

Originally Posted by gkeeper

Besides Piranha who would you recommend as a second sim provider in the US as backup

T-Mobile has been offering free prepaid SIM cards rather regularly through their website (bottom of the page) - though not at present. If you have some time you could keep an eye on that and order one, though obviously you'd have to have it shipped to a US address.

I was also looking at Truphone, which is another prepaid international SIM that uses T-Mobile's US network. Their SMS and data rates in the US are actually better than Piranha's: $.10 per SMS sent (free incoming), $.15 per MB data (billed every 100kb), calls being $.15 per minute incoming and outgoing. I haven't actually used their service much within the US but I haven't had any problems using their service outside the US.

The other thing you could look into is a SIM that runs on AT&T's network. Overall AT&T's coverage is better than T-Mobile's if you're going to be in more rural areas. Expect rates to be more expensive, though.