Re: GSM phone + SIM card?

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:06:20PM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Here in the very backward and strange land of CDMA, I have a phone
> that works fine, but only here. When I'm in most of the rest of the
> world, I'm phoneless, which makes things kinda tough, so I'm looking
> for a way to get:
>
> 1. An unlocked GSM phone that's just a phone. Simplicity is key.

Go into pretty much any store. Or get it online. It'll be more expensive
when it's unlocked, of course, but they're everywhere.

> 2. Some way to acquire a SIM card, ideally one that will work
> EU-wide.

Uh, AFAIK, you'll be hard pressed to find one that *doesn't* work EU-wide
;-) There are some pre-paid that don't, but most if not all subscriptions
do.

> Any hints as to how I might go about this?

Consider which cuontry you'll be in the most, and get a subscriptionf rom
that country. International roaming is a lot more expensive (not as
expensive as EU <-> US, but still expensive)

//Magnus