Pre-paid SIM card for Spain
On your next visit to Spain, whether on business or pleasure, take with yourself a pre-paid SIM card for Spain. It will save you tons of money in terms of your communication bills. you'll not require going through any contract or paying any month end bills. This pre-paid SIM card is the most economical and convenient way to keep in touch with your people, whether in Spain, UK or back home. The most amazing part is that you're not charged for incoming calls, regardless where they generate from. You get a local Spanish number and you pay for your calls as the locals do. No more of that roaming charges slapped on top of your calls.
While you take your mobile to Spain, make absolutely sure that it would work with their network. You need a GSM handset and it's very likely that even if you've a GSM phone, it will not work in Spain. The GSM phone that you've has a different frequency band and doesn't comply with the one operating in Spain. In order to be certain that the mobile handset that you're taking with you, works in Spain, it's always better to avail a handset which has quad band capability. Such a phone will work all over the world. First of all, the GSM phone in USA and Canada works on 850MHz and 1900MHZ bands which is different from the frequency bands in Europe, with a result that North America is set apart from the rest of the world. This is the reason why, even if you've a GSM handset it will not work in Spain. To comprehend the matter better, let me explain the different types of GSM handsets available and the frequencies they operate on. The GSM mobile phones use frequencies within four different frequency bands:
& 61656; 850 MHz (824.2 - 848.8 MHz Tx; 869.2 - 893.8 MHz Rx)
& 61656; 900 MHz (880-2 - 914.8 MHz Tx; 925.2 - 959.8 MHz Rx)
& 61656; 1800 MHz (1710.2 - 1784.8 MHz Tx; 1805.2 - 1879.8 MH Rx)
& 61656; 1900 MHz (1850.2 - 1909.8 MHz Tx; 1930.2 - 1989.8 MHz Rx)
A quad band handset works on all the frequencies mentioned above. With such a phone, you've no worries at all. It will work all over the world. Spain uses GSM 900/1800 for all their mobile communication, way out from what is used back home. A tri band mobile phone supports three different major frequency bands. Tri-band phones in America support 800/850, 1800 and 1900 MHz frequency bands. These cover entire GSM network in America and atleast one network in most of the countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. To enable you to have a worry free visit to Spain, it's better to carry a quad band GSM handset, supporting all the major GSM frequencies of the world.
Staying on the subject of mobile handsets, it's necessary that the handset you carry is a SIM unlocked phone. That is to say that, the phone will operate on any SIM card from any service provider. When you sign on a contract with a service provider, where you usually pay the bills at the end of the month, the contract is generally for a period. This guarantees that you shall stay with that particular service provider through-out that period. Usually in this case, the mobile phone is given to you free of any charges. In order that you may not use any other SIM card with that phone, the phone comes in a SIM locked state.
If you're not a frequent traveler, it's always wise to rent such a SIM unlocked mobile handset from the same place where you buy your SIM card for Spain. Regarding the SIM card for Spain, the SIM comes with a credit of talk time included with the price. This credit allows you to make calls up-to the limit for which you've paid upfront for the credit. In order to top up that credit, you can buy re-charge vouchers at any shop in Spain. These vouchers come in different denominations, depending upon how much call credit that you wish to buy. This means that you go on pre-paying for your call credits upfront, with an option to buy more credits as and when required.
For more information on SIM cards for Spain and renting of GSM handsets, visit www.planetomni.com/FAQ_sim.shtml for GSM mobile FAQs and www.planetomni.com/FAQ_sim.shtml for sim cards.
Cell phone use overseas.In 99% of the world the local cellular service standard is called GSM. We use this in the states as well. When combined with a SIM CARD (which usually goes under the battery of the phone) the phone is able to communicate and the SIM CARD also holds the telephone number and memory for pre-paid credit. Rates can be very low using this system. for example in 99% of all SIM CARDS incoming calls are free and calls to the states can cost a trifle. Such as, from the UK to the USA seven cents/minute, from Israel twenty-two cents, from Australia twenty-seven cents. Yes, USA Dollar cents! There are today even prepaid service providers in the USA offering rates of ten cents per minute to call anywhere in the US to any type of phone. No contracts, no credit card checks, no bills. Pre-paid always means no minimums no contracts, no obligations. You only pay for the calls made. you'll need an unlocked GSM tri-band or quadband UNLOCKED phone. You can buy factory unlocked phones and sim cards for more than one hundred seventy or the one hundred ninety-three countries on earth from http://www.planetomni.com Tel. 800-514-2984
