Prepaid USA SIM with voice/text/data plan

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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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.
> 
> Ok, so what about something like:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-9MLkBrAdyGB8cc2fgaTR1bfXKN7g4NB6dpcG4MgZYQ/viewform

You were faster, I've already started wiki for this one :)

But I agree with Stephen - lets just order it on the hotel room, without
making it difficult to organize... The link redirects to Amazon.com.

Jaroslav

> it captures more or less what we said here.
> 
> Misses three things:
> 1. where to send money upfront
> 2. where to collect SIMs
> 3. deadline for requesting one
> 
> Once fixed, we can send it to the attendees list, collect names and
> payments, then buy them.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> G.
> 
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