Guide for Mobile Voice & Data in the USA

On my trip to USA in June I picked up a Lycamobile SIM from my local ubiquitous Duane Reade. USD29 was the sticker price with taxes is about AUD50. 6GB of data, 30 days, free calls and texts on this offer.

Absolutely the most difficult company to initialize and get things going. Once I had it going after 15 calls to them I hope to never have to contact them again. Even their touted mobile app for USA...doesn't support USA. go figure that piece of marketing brilliance. I was never able to register on their website.

Anyway, the SIM worked for what I needed, data for out and about, calls to local numbers and texts. The SIM also supported tethering.

At the time of initial purchase I did buy an extra SIM pack for a return trip later this year. It's about 4 months away and I assume this original SIM will have expired. The idea being I can be quickly up and running when i land. I made lots of notes, so it will be interesting to see if my user experience improves the 2nd time.
 
I have previously used AT&T SIMs with no problems, but with Telstra roaming now becoming reasonably priced, I just used that for a trip earlier this year. Plus having read about these Samsung problems it sounded like roaming was going to be a better bet.
 
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Rich said:
I have previously used AT&T SIMs with no problems, but with Telstra roaming now becoming reasonably priced, I just used that for a trip earlier this year. Plus having read about these Samsung problems it sounded like roaming was going to be a better bet.
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Really? $10 p/d is unreasonable when Optus and Vodafone can do $5 p/d (which is ok for shop hops but still too much on multi-week trips).
 
SYD said:
Really? $10 p/d is unreasonable when Optus and Vodafone can do $5 p/d (which is ok for shop hops but still too much on multi-week trips).
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With Telstra pre-paid which I had in April, roaming cost was $25 for 14 days for 50 mins calls 50 SMS and 4GB. There are other packages for 3 or 7 days from memory.
$50 for 4 weeks.
 
Rich said:
With Telstra pre-paid which I had in April, roaming cost was $25 for 14 days for 50 mins calls 50 SMS and 4GB. There are other packages for 3 or 7 days from memory.
$50 for 4 weeks.
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Ah, that’s interesting and I don’t recall that being mentioned on other threads. Thanks!
 
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Rich said:
With Telstra pre-paid which I had in April, roaming cost was $25 for 14 days for 50 mins calls 50 SMS and 4GB. There are other packages for 3 or 7 days from memory.
$50 for 4 weeks.
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seems many providers have moved to this model. Amaysim have 365 days expiry with 50 calls, 50 texts and 1 gb.
 

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