A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working in
various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia etc.

What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in each
country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or something
else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much appreciated.

TIA

V

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote:

A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working
in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
etc.

What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in
each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or
something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much
appreciated.

TIA

V
As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various
tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you
want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on
line.
You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut
your call charges in these countries.




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On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote:

A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working
in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
etc.

What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in
each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or
something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much
appreciated.

TIA

V
As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various
tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you
want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on
line.
You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut
your call charges in these countries.

Brian

Thanks. Can you recommend any suppliers of the above please?

Thanks,

V

On 8 Mar, 23:13, "Victor Delta" wrote:
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On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote:

A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working
in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
etc.

What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in
each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or
something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much
appreciated.

TIA

V
As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various
tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you
want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on
line.
You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut
your call charges in these countries.

Brian

Thanks. Can you recommend any suppliers of the above please?

Thanks,

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I'd get a global roaming SIM and also local SIMs for countries where
the global one doesn't have cheap roaming but you can forward it
cheaply or free to the local one, such as Thailand, Malaysia ...

global SIMs such as Easyroam, Geosim, Gymsim, Worldsim

callback providers: there are loads of them, as a Google search would
show

I've used Voipfone, Mywebcalls, ReturnCall, but more recently
Justvoip. Other Betamax brands such as Smartvoip might have better
rates at the moment though. For Betamax brands you might use the Java
client from the Voipbuster website (don't edit the configuration
advanced options, leave it at voipbuster). I also signed up for an
account with Call2, but haven't tried it yet - this has the potential
advantage of not being based on VoIP, so I intend to use it when tone
dialling is needed

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:13:02 -0000, "Victor Delta"
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On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:31:35 +0000, Victor Delta wrote:

A family member will shortly be spending 6 months travelling and working
in various counties in South East Asia - Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
etc.

What's the best way to keep in touch please - buying local SIM cards in
each country visited or using one of the so-called Global SIM cards (or
something else)? Any advice and recommendations would be much
appreciated.

TIA

V
As far as Thailand is concerned I'd get a DTAC SIM. There are various
tariffs. If you want data you have to call them to make it clear that you
want to be charged for data, rather than the default, which is time on
line.
You could use a 'callback' service (or set up your own) to vastly cut
your call charges in these countries.

Brian

Thanks. Can you recommend any suppliers of the above please?

For Thailand, the easiest way is to buy it at the airport on arrival.
Both DTAC and AIS networks have their own shops selling their SIM
cards in the arrivals area at Bangkok. The staff there will help you
activate the card and configure any settings for the way you want it
to work.

The same is true in Malaysia. I found the Celcom Broadband SIM best if
you just want internet access. DiGi is better if you want to make
voice calls and SMS.

Chris