Advantage of int'l SIMs versus other solutions?

[monkeyboy]

Originally Posted by snidely

You are in the U.S.? If so, and you are a T-Mobile customer, you can use one of their UMA capable phones to connect to a wi-fi connection anywhere in the world. The minutes used would come out of your minute bucket (or you can pay $10/mo. for unlimited minutes while connected by UMA/wifi.

Don't need to be a Tmo customer if you have access to Wifi/Internet with decent bandwidth (say at least 200kbs), as there are many VOIP choices out there. The biggie of course is Skype and it is brilliant. It will run on any WinMo phone with Wifi (as well as a laptop), and they now have a Java client (supposedly works on many other phones).Its very cheap (unlimited to US for $3/mo or $10 for 500 minutes). So yeah, if you have Wifi/Internet, no need for any of these expensive int'l sims...