Thread: SIM for holiday in UK/Europe?

I've used TravelSIM in the UAE, NZ and Canada several times. It's great to have one phone number wherever you are in the world and having access to all your contacts without having to put them in every time you change countries or go on another trip.

To keep it "live" we just send a text once every six months. Easy to top it up when travelling and it's nice to know exactly what the costs are as you go.

We did have some issues with the data functions in Canada, but it was being resolved at the time but we didn't stay long enough for it to get sorted in time for us. I also discovered in the UAE that the service provider that TravelSIM was partnered with ran out of coverage when you got out of the cities, so I had to revert to roaming once out in the deserts.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I did the same but only because I wanted a Verizon CDMA phone. Previous experience with T-Mobile and AT&T GSM networks had me without reception in many places. I had two phones, one with the T-Mobile SIM, the other was my Aust. phone roaming from Telstra to AT&T in the USA and Rogers in Canada.

My three were all on AT&T and I never had a problem even out in the sticks in the Dakotas and Montana.

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Hi,
to save the hassle, I have an Irridium Sat phone, I was wondering could I divert my Telstra current Australian mobile to that and use my sat phone overseas?

I realise I would have to pay the diversion cost when called by people but it would not amount to much?

I figure $2 a minute on the sat phone when I use it is not much as I would make the calls short?

Thoughts?

Cheers

I used a Lefrench Mobile sim card on a recent Euro trip. Had no trouble with it. Worked everywhere. All support is in English.

Don't know if it is the best but pretty sure it is probably not the worst out there either. I looked at the Woolworth sim card (and others like it). Didn't like the way it operated - call somebody, hang up and then wait for them to call you back to make the connection.