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Hi Guys,

I'm an Aussie who's going to be staying with a few mates in the USA next month. I'm currently on Vodafone Australia, and I do have roaming enabled, but I'm hoping to use a lot of SMS and GPRS. So, I'm not prepared to pay heaps to Vodafone just to check my email and send a few text's. I racked up a $400 bill last time I roamed.

I'll be travelling around San Fran, LA, Vegas, Miami, NY.

I've had a look at Cingular and T-Mobile. Some questions:

1. Will these guys issue prepaid SIMs?
2. Is the GPRS a 'walled garden', ie can I access the internet?
3. Do they have an 'unlimited' GPRS access plan for prepaid?
4. Do I need to use a credit card, or can I just pay cash?

I'd like to get it sorted out prior to travelling there, so any advice you can give me would be great!!

Thanks in advance..

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Posted: 2006-12-17 03:46:34
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Aww.... Really? No advice? I'm leaving in 10 days!!
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Posted: 2007-01-07 11:48:28
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http://store.ustronics.us/index.html
You can use t-mobile, which has an unlimited GPRS plan. Which is standard here in the US. Also those stores will issue prepaid SIMs/phone packages.
Personally I would use tmobile, but if you like to try the 3G stuff you can go with cingular, however, only phones sold by cingular will do 3G, because their 3G band runs on 1900mhz and NOT the international standard 2100mhz.
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Posted: 2007-01-30 05:48:08
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