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snidely · 08-04-2009, 20:30

If you are going to spend a lot of time here - you should get a MetroPCS phone. They are only prepaid. Unlimited calling in U.S. - $40. Cheap overseas calls. They operate on CDMA - so you'd need to buy a phone - under $80.
Downside is they don't blanket the country. They cover most large metro areas and cover much of California and Florida. They recently started in NYC area.
The nationwide carriers (Verizon and Sprint which are CDMA -- and T-Mobile and ATT, which are GSM) all have prepaid plans). Using an intl. card in a country where you will use the phone a lot does not make sense.

...mike

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	08-04-2009, 20:30 If you are going to spend a lot of time here - you should get a MetroPCS phone. They are only prepaid. Unlimited calling in U.S. - $40. Cheap overseas calls. They operate on CDMA - so you'd need to buy a phone - under $80. Downside is they don't blanket the country. They cover most large metro areas and cover much of California and Florida. They recently started in NYC area. The nationwide carriers (Verizon and Sprint which are CDMA -- and T-Mobile and ATT, which are GSM) all have prepaid plans). Using an intl. card in a country where you will use the phone a lot does not make sense. ...mike Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.