Worldwide Coverage?

[[TW]Fox]

Hi guys,

My girlfriend is going travelling next year. She's insistant on visiting all sorts of scary places like Thailand, IRAN (!!!) etc etc before eventually ending up spending time in Australia.

Obviously I'd like to be able to contact her and she'd like to be able to contact me and I'm wondering what the most cost effective way of doing this is. Text messaging is probably best but I need to think about sorting her out with a suitable SIM card. She's currently on O2 PAYG with a Samsung Tocco.

Which network offers the most comprehensive roaming coverage on PAYG and the most reasonable rates for sending and receiving text messages?

thanks!

 

[[TW]Fox]

Easiest and cheapest way is just to take an unlocked handset and buy a local PAYG SIM in any country that she's in for any significant length of time. Email is the best bet for places where she'll only be staying there a few weeks.

She's visiting quite a few countries and then there is the hassle of a new number each time

 

[[TW]Fox]

why dont you go with her? oh wait thats what a normal person would do

Don't you have some imaginary cousins to brag about someplace else (After all, it seems you've nothing noteworthy about yourself so ride off the 'success' of your cousins)?

Guess what - she isn't going on her own