I’ve been scouring TMobile’s site for about an hour, but I couldn’t find exactly wham I was looking for, so I am asking you for help. I am trying to find a TMobile pay as you go plan in Europe. Im taking my annual trip there in December, and I am not going to pay $2 a minute in roaming charges to Cingular. I was hoping to find some sort of plan that I could get from perhaps TMobile and call back to the US for something approaching a good or decent rate. I need a plan that would ideally work across western and eastern europe, although I could of course get a new one in each country (but travelling to 6 or so countries, that is obviously an inconvenience). Any help would be appreciated.
Have you tried emailing your request to them and asking for more info?
I’m pretty sure i read recently (last week or so) about the exact thing you need. You can either pay £15ish for fairly limited roaming access or a one-off £30-£45 for pan-European roaming access. Sumpin like that anyway. Not sure if either will extend to the USA but it’s possible.
Oh, and don’t bother trying to ring them. It costs a fortune and ironically, their phone support suX0rs.
Roaming in Europe is expensive. If you’re planning on making more than a few calls, get a new one for each country - this also avoids the hassle of making sure you’ve got international codes programmed in for every number.
When I was in Europe last year I got a British number from Virgin. I got it from eBay before I left. However I started from England and I think you have to turn on your phone there to activate the number. I used it all across Europe from Ireland, through the Neatherlands, to Italy, to Romania and up through Austria and every country inbetween. I didn’t have and problems getting reception at all.
The worst problems I had was they wouldn’t let me use a US credit card to put more minutes on my phone. I put something like 40 pounds on it and used them all. I couldn’t put more money on it when I was on the road, which turned out that I did need it.
Yes it was a bit expensive, but to me well worth it. I have heard that some countries will not allow you to buy numbers unless you have an address. Plus putting a new SIM in will take away the numbers you may have saved. I’d get just one and be done with it.
I save my phone numbers to the phone, not to the SIM card, so I can avoid that problem.