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Can I buy a sim card at

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:34:12 -0700

Can I buy a sim card at Suvarnabhumi International Airport?

Mexitel Cellular phone for Mexico

Abagail — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:15:17 -0700

Yes!!! Great deal - thank you sooooo much.
Tried it, it worked great, it costs almost nothing.
Why haven't we heard about this earlier???

japan's network is largely

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:55:29 -0700

japan's network is largely CDMA, the only foreign phones that will work are newer 3g models. however it is almost impossible to get a sim card if you are not a resident. renting is a much better short term option.

sim needed in Italy to phone uk

Little Scruffs — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:44:51 -0700

Hi, My daughter is going to Italy for a month in September. Should she take an unlocked pay as you go phone and purchase sim card there and what sort of cost would it be. If we text her is it local rate or if we phone her? thank you in advance

Sim card for travel to Ecuador

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:47:09 -0700

Going on a short (one week) trip to Ecuador and I would like to know the best place to get a sim card. It needs to work in Tena, Ecuador for calls to the USA. Any advise would be appreciated.

Going to USA from Australia

Abby — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:35:53 -0700

I am travelling to Mexico, LA, Vegas and Hawaii in the span of three weeks, comin from Australia. Currently I have a Samsung U700 phone with my prepaid Optus (one of australia's networks) sim cards in it. The phone itself was bought on a Telstra contract but is obviously not locked into Telstra. Does anyone know if my phone will be compatible with say a T-Mobile Sim when I go to America? Also can i top up my credit on my sim without a credit card as I do not own one. Would a T Mobile sim work in Mexico?

SIM Card from Treo GSM in Canada

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:49:04 -0700

Do I need a specail SIM card to use my phone as a modem in Canada? Just got a Treo 650 GSM to use internationally. Hopefully I can download email from a US number through my phone. Has anyone done this?
Many thanks!

Sim-Only in France

Omar Khan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:14:20 -0700

Hi, in the UK we have sim-only deals, which are like packages with contracts, i.e. free minutes for a fixed-rate per month. You do not receive a phone, just the sim-card, and in exchange the user is only tied into a one-month contract and can leave the company at any time once latest bill is paid.

I am interested to know if any such deals exist in France.

Please note that I am not interested in:

- long-term contract packages with a mobile phone included; nor
- pre-paid credit sim-card only offers.

Thanks.

I'll second the

david — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:55:49 -0700

I'll second the recommendation for Meteor. Not only did it work well at a reasonable price but it' super easy to buy more minutes as you need them either at all kinds of retail stores or the Gazillion Meteor shops in most towns.

Cosmote sim card

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:34:34 -0700

Let me know if I should let my cosmote sim card expire which I purchasedx in Athens on holiday. I will not be returning to Greece and will be in USA. Thanks.

Best company in each country to buy a prepaid SIM from

Babs — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:52:30 -0700

What is the best prepaid simple card in Poland with easy capability to increase minutes. Am I better buying the SIM card in Poland Vs. buying them in the US?

you should try

Anonymous — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:49:00 -0700

you should try www.callineurope.com, I saved a lot with them!

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sla batterys

Anonymous — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:01:31 -0700

only come in increments of 1.5 volts how ever the voulume to engey racial of sla is prety high and u can release it pretty quick take7.2 ah 12 volt and u can pull a 30 amp short a 200 ah 12 vilt sla will start a car and that is what u will find in a wheelchair

so i dont think souces of large amounts of power are a concern

or maybe a cripple could never be a terrorist

how ever it is possable to make a battery out of a bottle of diet rite and with out saying how it could be used as a bomb just by containing an internal short circuit and containing the resulting sodium build up from the high salt content but u could still take a bottle of diet rite on board just not a bottle of deit rite configured as a bomb

the amount of electrical power from a diet rite battery would be less than a aa battery

air port security is a tricky bussness ask why you cant have toe nail clippers but can have a pistol in your checked loggage

Looks good

brad — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:10:40 -0700

I’m impressed they fit it in the standard pitch. One of the problems I had in trying to design a diagonal stagger like this was the squeeze between the outside corner of the window (most forward) seat and the rear inside corner of the seat in front — this will be narrower, and I wondered if you could get approval for how it might interfere with emergency exit. (After all, they are paranoid about how a reclined seat will interfere with getting out in an emergency.)

This approach misses one thing though. For those of us in the “widebody” category, and actually for everybody, you want room to spread your elbows. Part of my goal in getting away from the 3-in-a-row design was that it aligns us up so widest part of the body bumps into widest part. I would modify these seats so that there is a small hole at elbow level instead of a solid surface. This intrudes into the seat pocket area of the seat behind, but I would rather have somebody’s elbow taking my space there than somebody’s elbow/arm right at my elbow the way we do it now.

The padded lean-against curve is a nice touch I did not consider (as I switched to the alternating direction approach.)

Staggered seating on Delta

Sterling — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:43:05 -0700

Apparently Delta is going with a variation on your "middle seats ... about 6” behind the aisle and window seats" concept, except they're putting the aisle seat behind the middle seat instead, leading to a sort of "diagonal" row. From Wired.