Need T-Mobile UK top-up

[Steve Savitt]

Thanks for all the help.

Since I already have a sim card, I don't want to buy another one. Topupforless looks as if it will do just what I need to have done, so I will likely become one of its customers, unless I find someplace in Terminal 5 that will enable me to top up, giving me a little something to do between flights.

In the US, one finds T Mobile top up cards at (what we call) drug stores. But I think I recall from past trips that the chemist Boots doesn't sell such things. I don't think I tried the bookstore.

Why T Mobile won't acknowledge foreign credit cards is beyond me! That would make life simple--but maybe less amusing.

[inquisitor]

Have you actually read in my linked postings that you can probably top up British T-Mobile SIMs with an AmEx? At least my German AmEx was accepted by T-Mobile UK, allthough my German Visas and Mastercards were refused.

Originally Posted by Steve Savitt

Why T Mobile won't acknowledge foreign credit cards is beyond me! That would make life simple--but maybe less amusing.

That's pretty common practice with many providers in the world for the simple reason of fraud prevention. There have been many cases of fraudsters topping up prepaid SIMs with stolen credit card information in order to use the credit for calls to offshore premium numbers, which their partners ran. By accepting only local credit cards you can limit this risk significantly. Further operators are not really interested in travellers buying local SIMs. They rather want to rip you off with roaming tariffs, through which they can generate the same profit with way less usage.

[fulani]

Originally Posted by Steve Savitt

Thanks for all the help.

Since I already have a sim card, I don't want to buy another one. Topupforless looks as if it will do just what I need to have done, so I will likely become one of its customers, unless I find someplace in Terminal 5 that will enable me to top up, giving me a little something to do between flights.

In the US, one finds T Mobile top up cards at (what we call) drug stores. But I think I recall from past trips that the chemist Boots doesn't sell such things. I don't think I tried the bookstore.

Why T Mobile won't acknowledge foreign credit cards is beyond me! That would make life simple--but maybe less amusing.

i successfully toped up my tmobile uk sim with an american express prepaid card. Apparently tmobile uk accepts amex.