exit2dos Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Will a Thai mobile phone (Sanyo) work in Austria, Hungary and CZ? Do you have SIM cards installed in every country? I also have a Virgin Mobile pre pay set up in US, will that work, in some fashion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCgringo Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 USA phones-NO unlocked Thai phone - probably I use my unlocked Nokia German phone in Thailand, Getting sim card in Czech is easy I hear , I was only there a couple days and did not bother, OC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Unlocked thai Nokia 100 %, probably all thai mobiles too, thai letters don't work in my thai Nokia however, but some use other operators and there thai letters work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Anybody know if I can use my 1-2-Call SIM in Italy, both receiving and sending? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 I can receive and send sms in France and Sweden with my 1-2-call, but sending a sms cost 20 baht. If you have enough money inside you can receive calls else the person phoning you will get an answering-machine voice message in Thailand. I guess more than 200 baht/minute to receive a call as you pay from Thailand to Europe. Actually you must have at least 1000 baht inside if you want to receive a call. Never tried to use the phone for phone out in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ_Blackowitz Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 U an use the nokia here in Austria No problem Getting a Sim is quit easy as well Just go to any of the phoneshops.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaomaiminam Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 As for USA, thai phone will work if it matches the GSM frequency in USA and you have a GSM service provider in USA. To my knowledge only Cingular (now AT&T) and T-Mobile had GSM offerings (among other offerings). You would have to already have a GSM plan from them and take the Cingular or T-Mobile Sim and place it in your Thai phone, it would then boot with the Cingular or T-mobile number. I did try my 1-2 Call sim in USA and could not find a signal, however I have read on this or another forum where people have had some luck with 1-2 Call sim in USA. My experience says no. I switch sims here and USA all the time. Incidentally, Cingular sim will work in Thailand, but the roaming charge is horrible ($1.99/minute). I cannot speak for T-mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristianTroy Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Your phone should work if it supports the networks. Sanyo is a vague description, what model is it? Make sure it hasn't sim lock, very likely if you bought it in a bundle, cheap phone for using 1-2 call or DTAC or TRUE. If you bought the phone directly from a shop independent from the sim card you should be fine! Your Thai Card definitely doesn't work in Austria, Czech or Hungary. I'd buy a T-Mobile prepaid card in Austria which supports roaming access (expensive) or a new sim card in every country. Czech and Hungarian sim cards are amazingly cheap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exit2dos Posted April 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 That would be Samsung T 108. Ideally, I'd like to take the phone to a phoneplace, where I'm going, and get hooked up with local access. If it's just swapping sim cards and is not a big deal to do. Maybe it's better to just get one in Vienna that I can use in CZ, DK and Hungary, while I travel around. That's what I'm trying to figure out. One that worked in those countries would be ideal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCgringo Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 it may work in other Euro countries , but the charges will be high , both calling out and recieving calls , If you need to keep in touch with home you might be better off buying a Sim in each country, send a text message / email with your new number. this way you have a local number for people to call you back on, most people will not call to another country, My german prepaid SIM recieved calls in Prague, OC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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