I love UK mobile telephony!

[andy]

Originally Posted by PhotoJim

The first stop was at an Orange store on Kensington High Street. (How many Orange stores are there in London by the way? They seem to be everywhere.)

So now between my Skype 020 number, my O2 SIM, my Orange SIM, my T-Mobile SIM and my United Mobile Jersey SIM, I have 5 UK numbers. It seems a little silly but I like it!

All I need is a Vodafone SIM and a 3 SIM and I will have a complete set. (Resisting so far, I am...)

I'm planning to get a Sunrise SIM in Switzerland next week (just to have a cheap SIM to use there, and it's hard to get Swiss SIMs - you have to be in the country and present your passport to get one as a foreigner). Then, I will stop. Really. I will.

Jim

There seem to be one or two shops for each network in just about any resonably-sized town in Europe, plus some independent chains, and the supermarkets ...

If you want to add to your collection of UK numbers, you can get a free landline DID to forward via a VoIPprovider to one of your mobiles, from 5 cents a minute.

In Switzerland, also look at Swisscom, with CHF 0.80 for up to an hour to landlines and same network. Then use a callthrough access number, like maybe one of the Betamax VoIP brands for 0.5 or 1 c per minute to plenty of countries.