We will be traveling to uk in July (10) days. We both have unlocked iPhone 4's. what are our best options for cellular and Internet service?
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KeepGo.com is a reliable service I have used in the past. You can get excellent data plans for a reasonable cost. Unfortunately, the data + voice plans don't offer very good rates for data. If you are flying into London Heathrow airport you can find sim card vending machines in the terminal, but your mileage may vary as far as how good of deal they are. One issue using UK sim cards is that they often require a UK address or credit card in order to purchase service credit. Again, your mileage may vary.
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After registration with AT&T; and pre-purchase of the voice/data plan you need, you'll be able to use the phone in the US. You have no contractural commitment to AT&T;: the voice/data plan you've purchased simply expires/is consumed. I use my AT&T; number for several trips/year to the US (I have similar such SIM cards for IRL, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, France etc). With AT&T;, I typically buy a $40 voice plan and add a $5 data (1 GB plan) - the plan has a month's duration - albeit that I'm typically on the in US for 5 days at a time. Still good value! And I can keep WhatsApp and iMessage working without changing their initial registered numbers. After registration with AT&T; and pre-purchase of the voice/data plan you need, you'll be able to use the phone in the US. You have no contractural commitment to AT&T;: the voice/data plan you've purchased simply expires/is consumed. I use my AT&T; number for several trips/year to the US (I have similar such SIM cards for IRL, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, France etc). With AT&T;, I typically buy a $40 voice plan and add a $5 data (1 GB plan) - the plan has a month's duration - albeit that I'm typically on the in US for 5 days at a time. Still good value! And I can keep WhatsApp and iMessage... » Read More After registration with AT&T; and pre-purchase of the voice/data plan you need, you'll be able to use the phone in the US. You have no contractural commitment to AT&T;: the voice/data plan you've purchased simply expires/is consumed. I use my AT&T; number for several trips/year to the US (I have similar such SIM cards for IRL, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, France etc). With AT&T;, I typically buy a $40 voice plan and add a $5 data (1 GB plan) - the plan has a month's duration - albeit that I'm typically on the in US for 5 days at a time. Still good value! And I can keep WhatsApp and iMessage working without changing their initial registered numbers. « Show Less
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Yes, you can depending on which unlocked iPhone you're bringing over. Basically, the iphone 4 & 4S are easy to port over. If you have an iPhone 5, then you'll need to buy the T-Mobile Activation Micro SIM Kit and cut it down to the Nano sized SIM. Thankfully, here's good cutters available.
1701667
I would think so. I bought it and took it to UK, bought a prepaid SIM from Carphonewarehouse and was up and running right away. Voice data and text all worked as expected. No complaints here - it was perfect for my trip.
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There are some options if you can limit yourself to wi-fi only or limited use. Lycamobile has excellent pay as you go rates if you don't plan on using data (T-mobile only so only 2G speeds). There is a 2000 min for $45/year on AT&T's GoPhone with no data. Ptel and H2O might worth looking at as they have some interesting pay as you go products and they are AT&T. Data is expensive generally on pay as you go though. But, yeah Cricket is probably the best deal.
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Worked fine in Germany. We used a pre-paid SIM card from O2, but I think any provider would be fine, as it's just a generic mini-SIM card.
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We use US Cellular and it works great. Motorola has always given us the best reception of any phone.
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just get the sim at metro for 15 bucks, just make sure the iphone is unlocked
1852966
iPhone 4, unfortunately is the only one phone that don't need a SIM card..hope I was helpful for ya..
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US Cellular luck there phones down tight. You won't be able to flash it over to another carrier.
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Definitely 3G and in some cases 4G, I personally get 4G in my area. Your phone service is provided by ATT.If you go to the h2o website you will have a choice of plans some including international credit. If your phone is fully unlocked then you can just buy a SIM card from that country otherwise you will need to keep your sim from h2o in place. If your phone is locked remember that your phone had to be purchased initially with an ATT plan and not Verizon nor Tmobile for H2o to work
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I can't say about UK netoworks, but the phone worked fine with local European sim cards on the Continent. I bought a local sim card for Swiss Tel at the Zurich Airport and another sim card for a Russian service at the St Petersburg airport, both were about $10 and included some local minutes (we didn't want a data plan). It actually has room for two sim cards so you can use the phone as a local phone in two jurisdictions. It is a convenient, inexpensive standard phone. ps-- My wife had her Verizon iphone 4s unlocked by Verizon electronically without objection and without an issue.
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There are some options if you can limit yourself to wi-fi only or limited use. Lycamobile has excellent pay as you go rates if you don't plan on using data (T-mobile only so only 2G speeds). There is a 2000 min for $45/year on AT&T;'s GoPhone with no data. Ptel and H2O might worth looking at as they have some interesting pay as you go products and they are AT&T.; Data is expensive generally on pay as you go though. But, yeah Cricket is probably the best deal.
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I don't think you will be able to keep the $25 plan if you switch phones. I'd check with virgin mobile to be sure.
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Hi Robert, yes it will be absolutely 4g competible, and will work in England, it is not region locked. .
1111555
Sorry I don't know, am roaming with digicel Jamaica. But u think the micro sim would give you the fastest speeds as it being used by all the major bands now.
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I ordered this phone and will be traveling in Ireland and the UK, so you didnt have any problems connecting to the GSM networks with this product?