How to call home to USA from Amsterdam?

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Sat 28th Aug 2010 08:43 pm

How to make a call to the USA ? pick up a phone and dial the number !!!

badda bing !!

MagicFloyd · Post by **MagicFloyd** » Wed 1st Sep 2010 03:25 am

So I checked with T-Mobile and itll cost me $15 per Mb for my data plan while roaming. If I pick up a sim card in Amsterdam I assume that means I will no longer be roaming and my data plan rates would remain the same? id like to have gps and email so where would be a good place to pick up a sim card from? I see Dirty Uncle Ron said they cost 10-20 euro, so is it as simple as that? Just go buy one and switch it out when I want to call home? Thx in advance

dude65 · Post by **dude65** » Wed 1st Sep 2010 07:39 pm

MagicFloyd,

since your phone is T-Mobile-Locked, your only chance will be a prepaid T-Mobile SIM. So you need to find a store selling T-Mobile prepaid SIM cards.

I am not sure it'll work in your phone, but titus wong said it worked for him on page 1 of this thread.

For Internet access, I found the following page at t-mobile.nl

http://www.t-mobile.nl/mobiel-internet/ ... der-bundel

again, Google is still fairly bad at translating Dutch, but here it is

Basically, they're saying that - with a prepaid SIM - you can get 384 kb/s down and 64 kb/s up. In European cell terms that is 3G "basic", without HSDPA. It translates to 30-40 KB/s, which is not great, but sufficient for Google Maps and other stuff to help you around the city.

The price is €1 per MB, but is capped at max. €2,50 per day. So not a bad deal for a visit to Amsterdam.

I have NO experience with T-Mobile.nl, but with your locked phone this is probably not just your best but also your only bet.