Telestial International Cell Phones
Arrive overseas ready to call with a Telestial International Cell Phone
Staying in touch with family and friends with your cell phone is an essential part of modern life. Keeping that day to day convenience of home with you when you travel overseas with an international cell phone, made just for the international traveler, is now a travel essential.
Telestial are the experts in providing international travelers with full ready-to-roam international mobile phone packages that include unlocked GSM handsets and your choice of global SIM cards to get you calling as soon as you arrive overseas.
Just grabbing your existing cell or mobile phone and taking that with you overseas is the natural choice, but be warned, there are some areas (costs) that we recommend you check up on first. If you’re a T-Mobile or AT&T cell phone customer, your handset may be dual-band GSM and work only in North America. If you suffer from owning incompatible Verizon or Sprint CDMA handsets, then you’ll need a new handset in all but Canada, Mexico and few Caribbean countries.
As mentioned. the real killer on taking your existing cellular phone abroad is the rates. International roaming on plans not created for calling home from international locations can be very expensive. See our rates tables for Telestial's SIMs and domestic provider costs for roaming abroad. Demand for cheaper calling from abroad has led to the development of Telestial’s purpose built international SIM cards and travel cell phones.
A SIM card is the small chip that easily allows GSM phones to operate on different networks. Inserting a Telestial SIM into a GSM handset will instruct the handset to make and receive your international calls on far cheaper calling plans than your current domestic operator. Just snap the SIM card into your handset and you’re set to roam with a new world cell phone!
All Telestial international SIM cards are prepaid and come with starting airtime. Adding more credit is very simple and can be done through our 24/7 Customer Service, online or over the phone’s own recharging menu with your credit card. There is no monthly expiry on your credit; it will remain active for 9 months from your last phone call.
If you already have an unlocked, tri or quad-band GSM handset for your international trip, all you need is a SIM card to get you calling! Have a look at the SIM cards below to choose the right calling plan for your trip.
Telestial International SIM Card options
All of Telestial’s following SIM Cards feature:
- Excellent coverage in over 130 countries
- Easy to use voicemail and 24/7 Customer Service
- Free to receive text messages and you can send international text messages from $0.69 USD each
- Recharge minutes anytime via the phone or web, and view call records and recharge receipts online
- It is prepaid, so no contracts, no credit checks and no monthly fees
- Easy to use call forwarding and you receive a United Kingdom +44 phone number
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Receive your FREE Online Travel Journal with any of our SIM cards above
View a Google map that automatically plots where you have traveled based on the location of your SIM card
Post journal entries and photos directly from your mobile phone or PC while you're on the road
Let family and friends follow your trip and see where you are and allow them to easily call or SMS you
Keep your Journal private or give access to family & friends
Telestial GSM International Cell Phone packages
If you need a new international cell phone to use with your choice of global SIM card, then Telestial has that covered too. You will need a new cell phone if you have service with CDMA networks Verizon or Sprint. CDMA technology won’t work in Europe, Africa, Asia and The Pacific, Australia and some South American countries. If you have a dual-band GSM handset with AT&T or T-Mobile, again, you will need a new handset. 850/1900 GSM frequencies are used in North America, while much of the rest of the world operates on the 900/1800 GSM frequencies. If your handset is tri or quad-band and unlocked you will be ok, but if not Telestial recommend the following international cell phone options:
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* The Siemens A55 does not support the 850/1900 frequency and consequently service will be unavailable in the following countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, St. Lucia, US Virgin Islands, United States. If you require service in these countries, then please consider our ‘Pack More’ promotion.