Are "international" SIMS becoming obsolete?

monkeyboy · 28-05-2009, 03:22

During my last trip, 10 days in Japan a couple of months ago, I did the Skype thing. It was great -- but only when I had a good Internet connection, obviously. That was maybe 20% of the time at best. Yes, I could have had it more if I was willing to pay for it, perhaps up to 40% of the time. But mostly I relied on my int'l roaming SIMs (Celtrek and ekit, UM+ was dead).

So Skype/VOIP is a good, even great thing, but its not ready to supplant int't roaming SIMs yet in my view...

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monkeyboy (Offline) Member Official Member Posts: 31 Join Date: 03 Jun 2005 Country:	28-05-2009, 03:22 During my last trip, 10 days in Japan a couple of months ago, I did the Skype thing. It was great -- but only when I had a good Internet connection, obviously. That was maybe 20% of the time at best. Yes, I could have had it more if I was willing to pay for it, perhaps up to 40% of the time. But mostly I relied on my int'l roaming SIMs (Celtrek and ekit, UM+ was dead). So Skype/VOIP is a good, even great thing, but its not ready to supplant int't roaming SIMs yet in my view...