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prepay in USA? |
brokenrecord
Joined: Jun 10, 2003
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T-Mobile is your best bet. |
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UAEtease
Joined: Jun 23, 2003
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If I get a T-Mobile pre-pay card, Do I have to sign any sort of contract with them? and if I use it for SMS only, will it charge me a lot? |
rj
Joined: Jul 14, 2002
Posts: 95
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@BROKEN
who told you that cingular offers prepaid with ROAMING? |
brokenrecord
Joined: Jun 10, 2003
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On 2003-06-23 11:26:00, rj wrote:
@BROKEN
who told you that cingular offers prepaid with ROAMING?
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No one told me that, and I never said that. T-Mobile offers prepaid with roaming.
@UAE
T-Mobile charges $.10 for each message sent or recieved. |
Nemonic
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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Newbie here, but I've dutifully searched for an answer only to find confusion.
I'm a Vodaphone user from the Netherlands, which theoretically has a roaming arrangement with T-mobile in the US. But coverage for the last two years has been terrible in Upstate NY (Finger Lakes region, Seneca Falls)-- about 50 miles south of Rochester, I can say goodbye to my connection. Coverage maps of the area show GSM simply doesn't exist outside a few metropolitan areas and a narrow corridor running south from Rochester to Ithaca, but too far east to be any help to me. Anybody have a solution for my triband Sony P800 with a Vodafone Sim? Any way to (demonstrating total miscomprehension here probably) boost signal to make it reach another 20 miles or so into the nearest cel?
Europe just works so much better for this stuff. Three years ago I figured ok, early days in the us, it'll get better...  |
brokenrecord
Joined: Jun 10, 2003
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unfortunately, coverage of metro areas and interstate highways is the name of the game here in the US. National carriers traditionally do not cover rural areas, but leave it up to small regional providers, which are usually CDMA or TDMA, and not GSM. One thing you could try is getting an unlocked phone for the US that allows you to use the 850 MHz band. Cingular and AT&T are using this band to phase out the old analog towers with low frequency GSM, thus allowing more rural areas to be covered. |
whytoi
Joined: Aug 28, 2003
Posts: 72
From: Sydney, AU
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From my 2+ yrs of multiple roaming trips to the US using my home carrier's SIM card, I agree that the US cellular system is a real stuff up! Well, it's probably ok for the locals who has all these free national minutes plans to sign up to. But for visitors or budget conscious looking for a prepaid plan, their offers suck big time by world standards. And roaming cost for a visitor using their home carrier's SIM is like paying for roaming in a third world country ie. Get gouged!
And Ala forbid US's effort to turn Iraq into a non-GSM country.
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Posted: 2003-06-22 04:36
