Britishsims

[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.