On 10/02/13 18:50, Russell Coker wrote:
http://www.globalsim.covermore.com.au/
I saw the above advertised today at the travel expo. Is it any good? Are there better options?
Those rates come to $250/Gb, which is - to put it mildly - disgusting. Buy a prepaid data-sim in every country that you travel to. I did that while travelling, and it worked well. In a few places, they'd give them to you either completely free (3, in Sweden) or for free when topping up with a small amount of money (3 and O2, in the UK, £10). Even in the countries with relatively poor competition and bad deals (The Netherlands, France) it was still much cheaper than that GlobalSim. (If I may put in a self-plug here, I've been trying to compile a list of various prepaid internet sims and rates, around the world, here: http://worldmobilenet.com/) When I wasn't going to spend long enough in a country to justify buying a sim, I'd just make use of free wifi; it's usually not hard to track it down somewhere; libraries, public squares, fast food restaurants. Also, the general rule of thumb for wifi in accommodation is that the cheaper your hotel, the more likely it will be free. Private hostels/backpackers almost always had free internet. YHA/HI Hostels usually charged through the nose for it.
All I need is the ability to receive SMS and data access. Phone calls while travelling generally aren't of interest to me.
Carry a second phone with you (maybe an old Nokia that weighs next-to-nothing) with your Australian post-paid sim it, for receiving SMS messages; it doesn't cost you to receive them overseas. -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 http://weblog.leapster.org/