Hot answers tagged pre-pay
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There are several different companies in Japan that rent or sell pre-paid SIM cards and portable Wifi Routers:
mb.softbank.jp
pupuru.com
bmobile.ne.jp
rentafonejapan.com
sallysrental.com
econnectjapan.com
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There are two good options.
If you're OK with relying on Wifi hotspots, instead of needing 100% coverage, the best option is to sign up for a Wi2 300 account, which has a friendly English signup page and does not choke on foreign credit cards. For Y380/month, you get access to their own hotspots plus the Yahoo!BB and UQ networks, for a total of over 70,000 ...
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The "Text & Web" tariff from O2 Pay as you Go might be a good option for you.
http://www.o2.co.uk/tariffs/payandgo
Topping up £10 in a month gives you 300 free UK texts and 500MB UK web and Wi-Fi and you get to keep the £10 as credit on your phone to use for calls and additional texts.
The text and data allowance runs out at the end of the month but ...
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Not 'prepaid' per se, but Starbucks in Japan now offers free Wi-fi and an English log-in page. I've found many of the FON hotspots to be inaccessible even though I have a FON router at home as many are sponsored by Softbank and hence need to be accessed through a Softbank 3G connection to add the appropriate profile / cookies.
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You'll want to decide whether you need to make calls, send SMS, or if you're just after it for data.
Then take a look at the Prepaid Sim Card Wiki entry for Hong Kong.
Depending on what phone you have, you have a few options there, and it'll depend on how much data you plan on using in those five days, of course, as to which one suits you the best, but ...
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It all depends on the company. In the US it is customary to tip taxi drivers, however some shuttle companies have no tip policies. The difference between the two are that taxi drivers lease their cab from the company they drive for and rely on tips. Shuttle drivers usually get paid by the hour and tips are an added bonus.
If this is a private shuttle 20% is ...
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I don't have enough rep to upvote Enchanter Thunderbirds answer, nor comment, but I did the calcs and Woolworths Mobile prepaid sims (http://www.woolworthsmobile.com.au) are the best value as at April 2013. You end up with the same talk time as amaysim which is the other cheapo, but you get more data. Way more data. 5GB. I was there for a month and had over ...
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There are very few options in Israel for this type of cards but there probably even fewer ones in English.
The ones I found so far would be from Israel Post, although it does seem that you can only reload the card at a postal branch in Israel.
And Net+ which is a UK company but supposedly available in Israel.
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Data via cellphone is one of the most competitive marketplaces in Uruguay.
Vendors are shifting from 3G to 4G, starting in the area around
Montevideo. From a consumer's standpoint the only discouraging trend
in this market is the adoption of data volume caps by all vendors. As
of August 2012 no vendor web-site offered an unlimited mobile internet
...
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There are 3 major carriers in Argentina
Claro, Movistar and Personal
All three offer prepaid cards you can buy on literally hundred of shops around the city (I am not sure were in Buenos Aires you are going, but if you are traveling to Capital Federal, then you will find shops on the streets, on every shopping mall, and big movie complex. There are some ...
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It's not a well publicised network, but a cheap one for PAYG (with unlimited data) is Giffgaff.
It uses the O2 network, and keeps the costs low by not having any phone customer support, it's all forum and online ticket based. £10 gets you 250 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data (but unlike the O2 offer the £10 is spent on this offer, it's not still ...
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We found that 3 gave the best coverage and price when we were in Hong Kong last month.
It's highly recommended you go to one of the numerous "Computer Centers" (eg Wan Chai Computer Center) to buy it. They will be more inclined to set it up for you and if it doesn't work, they will usually refund you.
Top-ups are easy to get from a 7-11.
Yes, you can get ...
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While your hardware is perfectly capable, Verizon has crippled the software so you cannot access data networks with a non-Verizon SIM card, and can only access some voice networks (at least, without a bit of hacking). And this is the "fixed" software that came with the Jelly Bean update.
Specifically, there is no way to change the APN settings manually, and ...
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Basically to get a reasonable deal you need to have an unlocked phone, so make sure your iPhone is unlocked before you come.
And then you need to do your homework and check all the main providers to see what they have on offer at the time you are ready to buy it - it does change quite often. The main operators are: Vodafone, O2, Three, T-Mobile, Virgin ...
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According to the Prepaid Data Wikia on Argentina:
Claro:
1 hour $3 2 hrs $5 4 hrs $7 6 hrs $10
1 day $20 2 days $30 5 days $50 10 days $100
to activate send an SMS to: 454 with: 1h, 2h, etc
Movistar:
5 hrs $9
1 day $10 (upto 1GB)
7 days $59
to activate send an SMS to: 226 with: DIA
Personal:
1 day $10 (up ...
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