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Using T-Mo UK prepaid SIM in US
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Posted by: JoeSchmoe007

I am in US, planning to go to London soon. I purchased T-Mo UK SIM card on eBay. Can I insert this T-Mobile UK SIM in my phone while still being in US? Will it get registered with T-Mo UK properly considerig I am not in the home area?

Posted by: Junglizt1210

If the SIM card is activated it should roam in the US on one of your local networks/carriers.... T-Mobile being one of them, there may be others.

Posted by: andy962

It will register on a US network, but don't answer or make any test calls, as they will be expensive

Posted by: JEFFJAGUAR

The T Mobile UK sim card comes with no credit....yes it registers on either Cingular or T Mobile US but you can't do anything with it till you fund it.

Posted by: JoeSchmoe007

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Originally Posted by JEFFJAGUAR

The T Mobile UK sim card comes with no credit....yes it registers on either Cingular or T Mobile US but you can't do anything with it till you fund it.

So will I be able to call T-MO UK customer service from US at least (to see if it works)? If yes - does it cost anything? What about getting my account status?

Posted by: JoeSchmoe007

Also: can anyone tell me where on T-MO website it shows when the minutes expire?

Posted by: PhotoJim

I don't know if you can activate T-Mobile UK in the US, but I successfully activated O2 UK in Canada so suspect it would easily work in the US as well. O2 doesn't take Canadian credit cards, though, so I had to buy vouchers off eBay.

Posted by: PITA

I have activated T-MO UK prepaid SIMs in both the USA and Canada.
the nice thing is, somebody in that organization had limited smarts, meaning, the only forign credit card they take is American Express.........go figure :-)

Posted by: dimdamsel

It will work in the US, but as someone said earlier, unless you have some funding into it, you won't be able to use it, also, if you use it with UK funding in the US, it will eat up the funds quickly. I suspect it won't work if you haven't put money into it.

I am in France now, and my Orange pay-as-you go has run out of funds, so I have gone back to using my T-mobile Sim, but only for text messages( calling is obnoxiously expensive). By next week, I will be back in the UK and I will top up my UK Sim card. As soon as I get back to the US I put my T-mobile Sim card in, and I am off and running. However, in either country, if I have money in the pay-as you go, when I am in the US, I put the Orange Sim card into my phone, it will register as Cingular, as this is Orange's partner in the US. I hope this makes sense...