Sim Card Tips
Forget payphones and call cards, crazy hotel phone bills and roaming charges, even internet cafes for those "let's meet up" e-mails. Buying a prepaid sim card for the USA is the best way to save money and stay in touch:
- Change the voicemail message on your home mobile number to let people know your new number while you are away.
- Bring your current sim with you. Plug it in while you're away and pick up all your text messages.
- If you are travelling in a group, store your companions numbers on your new sim card. This will give you that extra bit of freedom when you want to do your own thing. You can easily meet up later for a the price of a local call or text.
- Need to meet a friend when you get there? Give them your local number, you even save them money, because they don't have to ring your foreign mobile.
- If you store your phone numbers on your phone memory, instead of your sim card, you can change your sim all you like and as long as you keep the same phone you will always have your address book with all your important numbers.
- Remeber to put those all important numbers in your phone before you go, your airline reconfirmation number, travel insurance company, hotels and anything else you might need.
- Most non-US phones do not function in the USA, you need a tri-band phone, check out your phone manufacturers web-site, or call your home network to check if your phone is tri-band.
- Some phones are locked to your home network. Call your home network's customer service to see if your phone is locked. If it is they should be able to unlock it for you. Or else just try a sim from another network and see if your phone will read it.
- You can receive texts even when you have got no credit so you can always be reached.