I don't know if this works if you aren't already a T-Mobile customer, but they have a promotion for free 1GB data per month until the end of 2014 with no voice or texts. You just have to get a sim card in the store ($10) and tell them it's for a tablet. On Aug 22, 2014 2:14 AM, "Jonathan Wiltshire" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-08-21 21:07, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> I may need a phone to be able to check in when I arrive tomorrow. I >> have a phone which works on US frequencies. But I don't have a >> suitable SIM.[1] >> > > Probably too late for your purposes now, but after extensive research I > wrote off getting a throwaway US SIM because pricing is so ludicrous. > Instead I'm taking a "3" (Hutchinson) UK SIM [0] and bunging £15 credit on > it, which when turned into the right magic bundle[1] gets a sensible number > of minutes, texts and data when roaming (I mostly value the data)[2]. > > Not much help for calling US numbers, but ideal for staying in touch with > home. > > 0: this is your cue to call me a dirty sell-out. I am. > 1: http://support.three.co.uk/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBISAPI.DLL? > Command=New,Kb=Mobile,Ts=Mobile,T=Article,varset_cat= > payasyougo,varset_subcat=4124,Case=obj(4101) > 2: http://www.three.co.uk/discover/phones/feel_at_home > > -- > Jonathan Wiltshire [email protected] > Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw > > 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 > > <directhex> i have six years of solaris sysadmin experience, from > 8->10. i am well qualified to say it is made from bonghits > layered on top of bonghits > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss >
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