Prepaid SIM with data

Here's what this wiki is about: This wiki aims to collect information about pay as you go mobile phone plans from all over the world. Not just any plans though, they must include decent data rates, perfect for iPhone and Android smart phone travellers. → Jump directly to the list of providers at the bottom of this page if you want to get to the good stuff.

Pay as you go
Pay as you go, also known as prepaid allows a customer to get mobile access without signing up for a long term plan. This makes it perfect for a person who is only visiting a country for a short time. To complicate matters a bit, the popularity of phones such as the iPhone has led to another requirement on the pay as you go plans: data. In order to be able to use the phones as intended, with internet access, you need to get a plan with decent data rates.

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SIM card
When you purchase a pay as you go plan you are given a SIM card to be inserted into your phone. Commonly in the mini size, but with the introduction of the iPad and iPhone 4 some providers also stock micro SIM's. See more at wikipedia

It's possible to cut a mini SIM into a micro SIM.

SIM lock
It is not uncommon that a phone purchased together with a plan is SIM locked to that particular provider. This means that when you go abroad and try to use a foreign SIM card it will not work. We will not provide information on how to unlock you phone in this wiki, there are other resources out there that already tell you how.

Data bolt-ons
Bolt-ons, boosters and features are all the same name for when you pay a fixed sum for an extra feature on top of you pay as you go plan. It is commonly how you get decent data rates. You pay a fixed sum for a certain number of megabytes, once they expire you pay the normal, usually quite high, rates.

Roaming
Roaming is when you keep using your plan from your country of origin abroad. It is usually VERY expensive to do so, cases where users come home to a bill that eat up a month's salary or more is not uncommon. The cure is to use a local pay as you go SIM card instead.

Contributing to the wiki
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Pay as you go providers with data by country (A-Z)

 * Argentina
 * Australia
 * Austria
 * Canada
 * France
 * Germany
 * The Netherlands
 * New Zealand
 * Philippines
 * Poland
 * South Africa
 * Sweden
 * Switzerland
 * Thailand
 * UK
 * USA