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Pre paid cell phone sim
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:22 pm
I'm visiting family in Texas soon for a couple of weeks, and live in England. I have an unlocked iPhone and was wondering if any of you know the best way/provider to get a prepaid US sim for my trip?
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Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:23 pm to StormTiger
When you get here just buy a cheap trackfone.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:35 pm to Agforlife
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when you get here buy a cheap tracfone
Don't do this. Go to either Sprint, ATT, or T-Mobile and ask for a prepaid sim card. Your phone will work fine.
Don't go to Verizon, your phone will not take your sim card.
I did the exact opposite thing visiting the UK last year. So long as your phone is unlocked you should be good.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:38 pm to StormTiger
At&t sim for an iPhone cost $10 at Walmart.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:42 pm to NYNolaguy1
I just like the throw away phone when traveling is all.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:43 pm to Agforlife
Do you get any data with the prepaid sim or calls and texts only?
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:52 pm to StormTiger
You can get a straightalk sim from Walmart for $15. After installing you have to go to the straightalk website (using Wifi) for instructions on updating APN settings. They recently made it so that they will send you a series of texts with the info and the location to paste the info.
You can probably get by with the $30 plan but the unlimited (throttled data after 5GB) plan is only $45.
ETA:
Or just go to AT&T if you want the warm and fuzzies but ST uses AT&T's towers.
You can probably get by with the $30 plan but the unlimited (throttled data after 5GB) plan is only $45.
ETA:
Or just go to AT&T if you want the warm and fuzzies but ST uses AT&T's towers.
This post was edited on 7/30/15 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:53 pm to junkfunky
Thanks!
Posted on 7/30/15 at 2:02 pm to Agforlife
Me too- until I got to Europe and realized I could use my phone to get around via Google maps and its public transit option in London, use yelp to look up restaurants, and call my family using my actual phone with the phone numbers already in it over skype. Made a huge difference not relying on WiFi only. All I needed was a new local sim card.
If I had just gotten a tracfone I wouldnt have had any of those options, and I would have had to manually add all the numbers I wanted to use. I would recommend doing that for anyone going overseas rather than paying out the arse to ATT.
If I had just gotten a tracfone I wouldnt have had any of those options, and I would have had to manually add all the numbers I wanted to use. I would recommend doing that for anyone going overseas rather than paying out the arse to ATT.
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