Prepaid USA SIM with voice/text/data plan

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 07/26/2013 12:20 PM, Tim Flink wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:37:37 -0600 Tim Flink <tflink at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> pay-as-you-go: - Add multiples of $10, $20, $30 or $100 to the
>> account using prepaid cards (or a credit card, but I suspect
>> buying the topup cards will be easier)
>> 
>> - Data costs $0.30 per MB, phone calls are $0.05/minute, sms are 
>> $0.05 and mms are $0.10 - all of this would be deducted from the 
>> amount deposited with the topup cards. If you bought a $20 topup 
>> card, that would be ~ 66M of data if you didn't call or text
>> 
>> Monthly: - $40 for a month of "unlimited" text/call/data, $50
>> gives you international calling
>> 
>> - can be paid with a topup card bought ahead of time - don't have
>> to give them your credit card
> 
> To make it simpler, including SIM costs for h2o you'd have:
> 
> $20 - 33M data OR 200min calling OR 200 sms $30 - 66M data OR
> 400min calling OR 400 sms $40 - 100M data OR 600min calling OR 600
> sms (or some combination) $50 - "unlimited" data/text/calling $60 -
> "unlimited" data/text/calling + some international calls
> 
> With readysim (7 day sims), you'd have:
> 
> $20 - "unlimited" talk and sms $25 - "unlimited" talk and sms, 500M
> data
> 
> readysim is clearly cheaper and less complicated for a short visit
> but it seems designed for that while h2o is a better deal if you're
> paying for a whole month or if you have a phone that can't handle
> tmo-us's network.
> 
> Honestly, I don't think it's going to matter a whole lot which
> option we end up using. If we're talking about buying a bunch of
> SIMs for "resale" at flock, readysim sounds like the way to go -
> it's cheaper, less complicated and will work with at least 2G data
> on pretty much all GSM phones. I'm not sure that the added
> complication of having 2 options or a more expensive option that
> requires the purchase of multiple cards is worth it but then again,
> I don't use much data on my phone; not having it for a couple of
> days wouldn't affect me much.
> 

For the record, I talked about this with Ruth and we really don't have
the budget to front any of these and resell them. However, if people
want to get together and arrange an order, I'll volunteer my services
to actually place the order (cash up front, please) and bring them
down to Flock.

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