Virgin Mobile UK Now Roams in the US

andy · 21-10-2007, 15:50

I think the SIM lasts quite a long time even if totally unused; I've never heard of someone disconnected in under a year, and 18 months or more seems to be quite often survivable. The data at 0.5p/kB even when roaming is useful from time to time, especially with their occasional free SIMs including £5 credit.

One possibility is to send an sms equivalent with a Vyke account - and you can change the Vyke PIN to represent another account for one of your other numbers as source of the message if you wish

- provided that that number also has data capability and has been used first, otherwise it seems a default resets the sending SIM phone number on to the account instead, an issue I'm still trying to work around - in other words, I could use a Virgin or O2 SIM to send a message from my O2 or Sunsim number, but haven't yet succeeded with the UM+ Jersey one ...

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andy (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,128 Join Date: 10 Dec 2004 Country:	21-10-2007, 15:50 I think the SIM lasts quite a long time even if totally unused; I've never heard of someone disconnected in under a year, and 18 months or more seems to be quite often survivable. The data at 0.5p/kB even when roaming is useful from time to time, especially with their occasional free SIMs including £5 credit. One possibility is to send an sms equivalent with a Vyke account - and you can change the Vyke PIN to represent another account for one of your other numbers as source of the message if you wish - provided that that number also has data capability and has been used first, otherwise it seems a default resets the sending SIM phone number on to the account instead, an issue I'm still trying to work around - in other words, I could use a Virgin or O2 SIM to send a message from my O2 or Sunsim number, but haven't yet succeeded with the UM+ Jersey one ...