Sims For Use In Africa

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Originally Posted by Tremont

Howdy,

I've got lots of great info from this forum, so thanks.

I've been trying to figure out what International SIM card will work best for an upcoming trip to Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia. I have used local SIMs before, but switching the numbers on multiple trips has been a headache, and forget calling back to Canada (which is home).

I've been looking at Hopmobile or MonacoPlus: they seem to be the same thing and both offer coverage all over Africa. This leads me to ask, does this really work?

I emailed Hop and asked them, and after about a week they replied that sure, the card works in the countries I specified. Not that I don't believe them, it's just that...well...I find that hard to believe.

Any experiences with using these cards in Africa?

Thanks!

BTW I have a Motorola V551 GSM quad band phone.

Beware, 09 Mobile has Namibia on their roaming list but the card does not work there at all. We tried 2 months ago and it did not even got connected to the network.

Chris