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Mobile roaming tamed in the Wild West
Families planning a big holiday break in the USA or business travellers can end up paying hundreds of pounds more when using their UK mobile to stay in touch with home as well as calling each other. Using your UK mobile network or even a Global SIM or International SIM can actually turn out to be a horribly expensive mistake and leave many feeling out of pocket. Using your mobile phone in the USA incurs premium rate international roaming tariffs, but now the UK's leading SIM retailing website www.0044.co.uk provides a new USA SIM as a simple solution.
Staying in touch by using your mobile in the USA can still cost a fortune. Not only are you charged premium rates of up to £1.30 p min to make a call you are also charged to receive calls in excess of £1.00 per minute. This not only applies to UK networks but also on Global SIM cards and International SIM cards. Now all of this extra expenditure can be avoided by using a new solution provided by mobile roaming specialists 0044. By purchasing a US pay-as-you-go SIM card (the small removable chip inside your handset) on the website and using an unlocked tri-band handset, roaming charges can be avoided, calls made are at local rates and incoming calls and texts are a fraction of the cost.
Carl Austin, director of 0044 Ltd commented, "I needed to take my mobile to the USA even though it was costing me a fortune, but my UK network could not present me with a cheap solution so I found one for myself with a USA SIM card. It kept me in control of my call costs, saved me a considerable amount of money. It was also a benefit to be able to use the it in the UK to receive calls from my US contacts. Like many of the best ideas in life, our service is simple. We aim to offer a solution to holidaymakers and business travelers worldwide so that they can remain in control of their budgets yet stay safe and in touch at the same time".