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Post By mbravo

25 May 2013
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Tasmania
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Best local SIM cards for travellers
I would like to have an up to date list of what people regard as good providers of communication with SIM cards for a particular locality for us travellers.
This can be for voice, SMS/MMS or Data.
My need is to know what SIM card to go and buy in a country that I might travel through with out having to figure and sort it out while on the hop.
I am sure a lot of people here will have a whealth of experience with mobile communications while travelling, and I hope those of you would be willing to share.
My specific need right now is angled at Europe, and to know what local SIM cards are reliable and affordable for purely data. I'm not so interested in voice. I wish for a good pre-paid plan for data.
Here in Australia I use a card supplied by 'Amaysim' who have, in my opinion, a good plan with reasonable rates. I have pay as you go and my credit will last for 90 days, rolling over if I recharge before then so I don't loose any, unlike the 30 days of so many other providers. Data is only $0.05 per MB.
Amaysim originally started by some of the folks who setup 'Simyo' in Europe. You can find simyo.fr/nl/de/es/be/com online, but last year while in France, I could find no mobile shop that was interested in or would sell it, even though french Bouygues Telecom are the outlets for it in France. The data cost is not as good as we get here in Australia, with €0.20 per 0.25MB, so in actual fact it costs twenty times more without taking the exchange rate into consideration, which would make it more expensive than Amaysim.
What I want, is a pre paid plan that doesn't need me to jump through blazing hoops of fire and produce bank account details or surrender my passport, but rather, simply be able to buy the SIM card at a tabac or petrol station for a few euros and then set it up online.
So, with all that, I'm keen to hear what people have used and a few details about how easy or not it was for them to buy and use.
Give details of whether your main need was for voice, SMS/MMS and or data. If you have a link to a site, fantastic.
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Paul
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