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I agree it may have something to do with 3 merger (3 was the original "cap monster"). Personally I think caps are the greatest marketing scam ever - saying "you get $300 worth of calls in your $20 cap" by obscuring the fact the per-call cost is jacked up. Has no real effect until you bust the...

There's probably no perfect answer for everybody, just whatever suits you better than others. Being contactable is a big deal for me (and not wasting time tooling around arrival halls trying to find a SIM when I've just got off a long flight). The vRoam product works for me (don't know why you...

There's quite a few Skype-type applications for smartphones now - just off the top of my head Jajah and Fring come to mind but there are many others. The non-Skype ones generally have a bit more open systems (they are SIP-based) and will generally connect to Skype users (whereas Skype generally...

Yep, watch out for iPhones when roaming. I know of someone who copped a $17,000 bill after three weeks (he foolishly downloaded movies...)

What you need for Japan is a handset that includes 2100MHz WCDMA (that's one of the 3G standards). Google the phone model specs and you should be able to find it (or not, if it doesn't have it). Nothing to do with the SIM. Yep, in Japan you can use wifi (if you have it on your phone or...

My bigger concern is being able to be contacted - switching to local sims every trip means no-one really knows how to call me except for close family, and I need to get calls for business and social reasons. Local prepaid sims are also a real pain because of credit wastage, because it's hard...