Best SIM for South Esat Asia?
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From: Victor Delta on 5 Mar 2010 18:31 A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia etc. What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much appreciated. TIA V
From: Brian A on 8 Mar 2010 10:00 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote: > A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working > in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia > etc. > > What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in > each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or > something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much > appreciated. > > TIA > > V As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on line. You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut your call charges in these countries. -- Please remove 'no_spam_' from email address. SAVE THE BBC Sign petition http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bbc/ -- Please remove 'no_spam_' from email address. SAVE THE BBC Sign petition http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bbc/
From: Victor Delta on 8 Mar 2010 18:13 "Brian A" <no_spam_bca1000(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ci8ln.48421$Ym4.3392(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote: > >> A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working >> in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia >> etc. >> >> What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in >> each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or >> something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much >> appreciated. >> >> TIA >> >> V > As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various > tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you > want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on > line. > You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut > your call charges in these countries. Brian Thanks. Can you recommend any suppliers of the above please? Thanks, V
From: andy on 8 Mar 2010 18:51 On 8 Mar, 23:13, "Victor Delta" <n...(a)nospam.com> wrote: > "Brian A" <no_spam_bca1...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:ci8ln.48421$Ym4.3392(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > > > > > > > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote: > > >> A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working > >> in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia > >> etc. > > >> What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in > >> each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or > >> something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much > >> appreciated. > > >> TIA > > >> V > > As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various > > tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you > > want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on > > line. > > You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut > > your call charges in these countries. > > Brian > > Thanks. Can you recommend any suppliers of the above please? > > Thanks, > > V- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I'd get a global roaming SIM and also local SIMs for countries where the global one doesn't have cheap roaming but you can forward it cheaply or free to the local one, such as Thailand, Malaysia ... global SIMs such as Easyroam, Geosim, Gymsim, Worldsim callback providers: there are loads of them, as a Google search would show I've used Voipfone, Mywebcalls, ReturnCall, but more recently Justvoip. Other Betamax brands such as Smartvoip might have better rates at the moment though. For Betamax brands you might use the Java client from the Voipbuster website (don't edit the configuration advanced options, leave it at voipbuster). I also signed up for an account with Call2, but haven't tried it yet - this has the potential advantage of not being based on VoIP, so I intend to use it when tone dialling is needed
From: Chris Blunt on 8 Mar 2010 23:55
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:13:02 -0000, "Victor Delta" <none(a)nospam.com> wrote: >"Brian A" <no_spam_bca1000(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:ci8ln.48421$Ym4.3392(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote: >> >>> A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working >>> in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia >>> etc. >>> >>> What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in >>> each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or >>> something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much >>> appreciated. >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> V >> As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various >> tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you >> want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on >> line. >> You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut >> your call charges in these countries. > >Brian > >Thanks. Can you recommend any suppliers of the above please? For Thailand, the easiest way is to buy it at the airport on arrival. Both DTAC and AIS networks have their own shops selling their SIM cards in the arrivals area at Bangkok. The staff there will help you activate the card and configure any settings for the way you want it to work. The same is true in Malaysia. I found the Celcom Broadband SIM best if you just want internet access. DiGi is better if you want to make voice calls and SMS. Chris |