Are "international" SIMS becoming obsolete? - Page 3

snidely · 25-05-2009, 03:06

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Originally Posted by Stu

If you are an American, also look at ATT's Premier wifi service which gives you access to the iPass roaming network for about half of rack rate.

Stu -
They haven't taken my passport - yet.
BTW - You seem to create economic disasters all over the world. You list Detroit, and look what happened to that city, economically. In the past few months there have been several reports about Dubai having bad times.

I used to carry an ATT phone as a back up, but gave it up. The T-M phone, with occasional use of an intl. SIM seems to work for me.

...mike

Stu · 25-05-2009, 03:28

Dubai and Detroit are "sister cities." I didn't know how true it was.

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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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	25-05-2009, 03:28 Dubai and Detroit are "sister cities." I didn't know how true it was.

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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...