Britishsims

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by Ukap

Britishsims

Their price is higher however, I cannot purchase a British sim directly from a UK site using USA address. You have to use your credit card billing zip code which is in the USA & the UK sites do not allow me to do that.

I have United-Mobile sim that I am using while in Europe. However I will be one week in UK. UM calls from UK to USA will be 40c. I thought if I got a British sim I could call the USA for less than UM rate.
Some rates on Britishsims are showing at 5p a minute - approx 10c USA

Good idea but there is absolutely no need to buy the card in advance...wait till you get to London or check out the T Mobile UK web site which often has promotions that give you free sim cards or perhaps sim cards for £1 each....see if your first hotel will accept any mail for you and have them sent there...T Mobile UK sim cards have no credit on them anyway and really aren't activated till your first top up which you can do with swipe card they provide with the package at almost any chemist, petrol station or grocery store...

BTW T Mobile UK calls to the USA can be a cheap as 3p/minute using a third party known as yourcallworld check their web site...somewhere there they give a link to purchase T Mobile UK sim cards for £1 each.

You can also buy a bundle of minutes from T Mobile UK of 50 minutes for £2 with 60 days validity...by my math that comes to 4p/minute if you use the whole thing and you can call direct without a third party number.

Orange UK requires registration and their rates of the Orange UK Call abroad sim...calls to the USA and Canada are 5p/minute....the card is free, easy to acquire once you get to the UK (it requires an initial top up of £10 but the cards don't expire easily and with eu roaming rates coming down quickly, who knows in the future they may be usable for very little throughout the eu. They're also easy to keep valid and active by simply sending a text message every so often which are cheap but count as a billable event require every 6 months or so.....

I wouldn't pay 20 quid for a British sim card, at least not today when several companies are literally giving them away....you can also continue to use the UM card to receive calls...

You'll just have to decide if having the number in advance is that important to you to spend the extra money.

[Ukap]

I went to yourcallworld.com. The rates look too good to be true. What is the 07755 access number?

I have used United-Mobile sim worldwide plus callbackworld before their rates went very high. I am not a novice but not a techie either. Could someone explain the youcallworld process in simple terms that I could understand!!

They mention they have a special rate with Tmobile UK... I don't see this rate on the TMobile site and wondered if these claims were unsupported.

[testcase]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

Good idea but there is absolutely no need to buy the card in advance...wait till you get to London or check out the T Mobile UK web site which often has promotions that give you free sim cards or perhaps sim cards for £1 each....see if your first hotel will accept any mail for you and have them sent there...T Mobile UK sim cards have no credit on them anyway and really aren't activated till your first top up which you can do with swipe card they provide with the package at almost any chemist, petrol station or grocery store...

I am going to London and do not have a hotel which accepts mail. How can I get a prepaid T-mobile Sim card once I arrive in London???

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by testcase

I am going to London and do not have a hotel which accepts mail. How can I get a prepaid T-mobile Sim card once I arrive in London???

Earlier in the thread, somebody suggested a way of using the T Mobile web site and having the sim card sent to your address outside the UK...

I did find one place that sells the sim card for £0.99...but charges £6.50 to ship to the USA...

However, that might not be so bad as when I was last in the UK, the T Mobile store wanted £5 for the sim card and carphone warehouse, in its catalogue, listed some obscene price for it!

I don't know if they want me to give the name of the shop I used for UK phone accessories, they are very cheap but of course shipping to the USA is obscene.

I also just looked on ebay USA (ebay.com) and found somebody selling one for US$2.49 with US$3.99 for shipping (shipping from USA)....you won't do much better than that...

Do remember T Mobile UK sim cards are sold without any credit, you do get the phone number and upon arrival in the UK, you have a swipe card where you can go into most any pharmacy (Boots, Superdrugs), petrol station, grocery chain store (Sainsbury's, Tesco) and easily top it up for £5 to activate the card......go to ebay and do a search for T Mobile UK sim card and you'll find it.

Also T Mobile UK operates on 1800 mhz. so those US tri bands made for Cingular (AT&T) and T Mobile USA which have 850/1800/1900 will work provided they are unlocked.

[MrEd]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

Earlier in the thread, somebody suggested a way of using the T Mobile web site and having the sim card sent to your address outside the UK...

I did find one place that sells the sim card for £0.99...but charges £6.50 to ship to the USA...


I don't know if they want me to give the name of the shop I used for UK phone accessories, they are very cheap but of course shipping to the USA is obscene.

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Shipping to the US from the UK by "Royal Mail International Signed For" (recommended for any thing of value being shipped overseas by post - courier excepted) costs about £4.95 and upwards depending on weight, so although £6.99 seems a "obscene", it is not much more and it gives the shipper and buyer a level of compensation if it goes missing.