which cell phone company offer prepaid phone card in orlando?

[louisaho]

the one that allows me to buy 20$ or 10$ card

 

[NotUrsula]

For most US prepaids, $20 is the minimum top-up. You should be able to find Tracfone, Cingular, Verizon or Sprint at lots of places, gas stations even. Virgin is a little harder to find, but is usually available at large gen'l merchandise stores, such as WalMart or Target, and at electronics stores such as Best Buy, which sell the phones. I have Virgin, and I buy my cards at Sam's Club, b/c they are the only place I've found that really discount them, about 15% off face value.

In most cases, you can usually just call the phone provider from a payphone if you need to top up; you call the 800 number and pay for it with a credit card.

If your concern is buying a US phone, perhaps you could just order it off the US website and have it delivered directly to your hotel, along with an extra card.

 

[oogieboogie]

In DTD, there is a Virgin Megastore. You can buy the phone and the cards there. The cheapest phone is $59.99 and the cheapest card they have is $20.00.

If you're only going to use the phone while in Orlando, why not just get prepaid phone cards? You can get those everywhere - Walmart, grocery stores, even gas stations. They'll come in a variety of denominations - from $10 on up depending on how many minutes you're buying.

 

[mickeys friend]

We have a Virgin prepaid cell phone and I always get my cards from Wal-Mart (thats also where I got the phone).Could someone tell me if this phone works good at WDW?Also what about the roaming charges or long distance? We only use it here at home and have never taken it with us on our WDW trips,but,I'am thinking of buying another one but I'd like to know about the roaming charges,etc, if we use it down there.I know that last year we got the pay phone cards and they always took off 10 minutes of time everytime it was used plus how long you talked.Don't want to do that again.We would only use the Virgin phones to call each other at the parks,not to another state.

 

[louisaho]

thanks for the info
i have an unlocked cell phone , my question is where can i buy a sim card with prepaid function, with phone number of 407 ???
so that we can use it during our vacation in disney

 

[louisaho]

what happen is we are a large group of people traveling from canada, japan, china.. everyone has their own unlocked world phone. and it will be good that everyone can use their own phone with prepaid card, so there will be no roaming charge, since the roaming charge to use a japan network, is way too expensive for us.
where can i get a sim card with 407 number and a prepaid card?

 

[johde]

I would buy t-mobile GSM prepaid sim cards. They are available from ebay for a good price. t-mobile prepaid is national so area code wouldn't matter.

Jeremy

 

[NotUrsula]

You should have specified that you wanted a SIM card; we all thought you were just talking about buying more airtime; in the US you commonly buy it by buying a code card.

GSM phones that use SIMS are still not really that popular in the US, and I have never seen them sold anywhere but at a phone-service store. Most overseas travelers coming here buy their US SIM's in their home countries.

As far as I know, the only service that offers them in the Orlando area is T-Mobile; they call it EasySpeak. You can get them on Ebay. If you want to buy them in person, you have to go to one of their stores to buy them (not the T-mobile kiosks that you find in other stores; but an actual T-Mobile store, and most of them still won't know what you are talking about.) Last I heard, the minutes are not cheap, though it may have gone down. When I checked it a few months ago, EasySpeak charges were running run between US $.45-.65/minute. The base charge to have the SIM activated was at least $50 per chip, w/ about $30 of that being airtime value. I've heard of some situations where the base charge was a $100 minimum. Also, the minutes do expire whether you use them or not, and pretty quickly, too.

T-Mobile also offers prepaid card refills that are not SIM cards, just added value.