Review of Truphone

[bones_boy]

Looks like many of the international roaming prices went up incrementally across the board outside of the eight Truphone countries. Some went down a lot though - like South Korea. Assume it's a new roaming partner or partners?

[kctopitz]

The 9 cent flat rate for Truphone countries is definitely impressive, and it apparently includes tax, which resolves a previous gripe I had with them.

$.09 per minute or SMS is even less than the prepaid rates of local prepaid service in most of Europe, i.e. in Germany, the "best deal" SIM cards have rates of €.09 ($.12) per minute or SMS. I'll definitely be using them more.

Now if only they'd start offering data packages...

[bones_boy]

Originally Posted by kctopitz

Now if only they'd start offering data packages...

Can't you just sign up for one of their "individual" business plans? It has data packages for the Truphone 8 countries.

http://www.truphone.com/us/business/Price-Plans/

[kctopitz]

Originally Posted by bones_boy

Can't you just sign up for one of their "individual" business plans? It has data packages for the Truphone 8 countries.

http://www.truphone.com/us/business/Price-Plans/

Their cheapest plan is $50 for 300 MB, 300 min, 300 sms. I'd barely use the minutes or SMS, so I'd be paying $50 for 300MB, which is 16.7 cents per MB. I'd be better off pay for pay-as-you-go data at 9 cents a MB ($27 for 300 MB).