Re: [86attendees] "best" prepaid US SIM?

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sun, 17 March 2013 10:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [86attendees] "best" prepaid US SIM?
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On 17 Mar 2013, at 07:28, "Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <evyncke@cisco.com> wrote:

> Correct while in US, I use a per-day 2G of data at 3 USD/day with T-mobile

Wow, 2G of data a day for $3 US?  That's *really* nice.

And I thought the EE deal in the UK which gives you 100MB of data for £2 a day while roaming in the US/Europe was pretty good.

Tim

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 86attendees-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:86attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On
>> Behalf Of Randall Gellens
>> Sent: dimanche 17 mars 2013 00:04
>> To: John Levine; 86attendees@ietf.org
>> Cc: lars@netapp.com
>> Subject: Re: [86attendees] "best" prepaid US SIM?
>> 
>> At 7:52 PM +0000 3/16/13, John Levine wrote:
>> 
>>> If you're in an area with adequate T-Mo coverage, they have some
>>> reasonable plans starting at $30/mo with no contract.
>>> 
>>> http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
>> 
>> My understanding is that T-Mobile has other prepaid plans that are not
>> monthly but rather per use or per day of use or per month of use.
>> 
>> --
>> Randall Gellens
>> Opinions are personal;    facts are suspect;    I speak for myself only
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