Going nuts trying to find a good SIM card

Thanks for the info. I came up with two options. Masmovil came up but when I went to the website and proceeded to buy a card it's asking for a whole bunch of info that I don't know how to respond to (what's your current carrier, and other personal info I don't even know what it means). The other offer was Simyo, but the website is not responding to me clicking on the different options I want.

Try this webpage:

http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Spain

Daniel, even more confusing! haha

I bought a card last summer here: http://www.4gsim.es/ I was happy with the service. They are going to need some personmal information to activate the card. I bought an Orange "HGolidays" card, but they have many cards to chose from.

Hi Gabriel,

I purchased a Lebara Sim card in Madrid (October 2015) and it it was a good value and it worked great.
I had a flip phone at the time, but hopefully you'll find the Sim card that offers what you need.

While I generally don't use SIM cards any more , due to the improvement in my carriers plans ( Verizon ) , I used LEBARA cards in the past from 2010 to about 2013 . As Priscilla says , they are very reliable and well priced . I used them in UK , France , and Germany with complete success .

I'm not sure if this will help, but T-mobile looks like it has unlimited data in Europe for $50/line. I'm thinking of switching carriers before a 3 week trip. I currently have Verizon and their international plans are prohibitively expensive. I haven't called T-Mobile to check the terms of this deal, but it seems legitimate.

I'll check these out, thanks. Yeah Verizon charges me $10/day to use the phone overseas. That's excessive. I believe T-Mobile's capabilities overseas can be limited sometimes from what I've heard.

The Verizon plan I use is $40/month for 100 minutes talk , 100 texts , and 100 MB Data . I'm confused by the discrepancy you are finding .

On SIM cards in Europe; including Spain: On two occasions, two years apart, I tried the unlocked iPhone SIM card drill. On both occasions, my iPhone lost my capability to use my email service. I wasn't using gmail; which may have been the problem. Upon arriving back in the State, I went to Verizon to have them unscramble my phone issues. On both occasions the technician said that iPhone does NOT like SIM cards inserted. As we prepare for our upcoming trip to Spain, I'm going with a local phone and just keeping it for future trips. Not worth it to me to try and make my iPhone work. An android may accept the SIM more readily.

On SIM cards in Europe; including Spain: On two occasions, two years apart, I tried the unlocked iPhone SIM card drill. On both occasions, my iPhone lost my capability to use my email service. I wasn't using gmail; which may have been the problem. Upon arriving back in the State, I went to Verizon to have them unscramble my phone issues. On both occasions the technician said that iPhone does NOT like SIM cards inserted. As we prepare for our upcoming trip to Spain, I'm going with a local phone and just keeping it for future trips. Not worth it to me to try and make my iPhone work. An android may accept the SIM more readily.

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Steve, that's correct. 100 MB will not serve me any purpose at all. I'll be needing GPS because I will be driving in Mallorca.

Pason, good to know. I'll contact my carrier and see what options I have if anything goes bad with the phone. I do use Gmail, so maybe it won't be an issue for me.

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Steve, that's correct. 100 MB will not serve me any purpose at all. I'll be needing GPS because I will be driving in Mallorca.

Pason, good to know. I'll contact my carrier and see what options I have if anything goes bad with the phone. I do use Gmail, so maybe it won't be an issue for me.

I have an iPhone and have been using various providers in Europe- Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey- for over 12 years and 15 trips. I've used Vodafone, Orange, Lebara and Movistar as well as a local card in Turkey. I've also used T-Mobile when visiting two or more countries on the same trip. My carrier at home is AT&T which uses GSM technology and SIM cards. I have never had a problem connecting with any of the cards so I guess my iPhones haven't minded using a SIM card.

If you are unsure as what to do, you can always sign up at T-Mobile here in the states and your phone will be usable from your home, in Europe and back again. There's no contract so you could cancel within the first month which is all you'd have to pay for. If I'm not mistaken, this would cost about $70 + 20¢ a minute for calls.

When using mapping software, you can download appropriate maps on Google Maps and use them off line. GPS location does not use data downloads so you wouldn't need 3 gigs of data unless you want to stream videos.

Philip, I did get in touch with Apple and they assured me my iPhone should work fine.

I know about downloading Google Maps and using them offline. I've done it before, but sometimes there are a few missing details that I need. Since I need a map to cover the whole island of Mallorca, I don't know if downloading an offline map will work. But I can certainly check it out.

On all of my previous trips to Europe I've always only relied on free wifi to connect online. This time I just want to be able to connect whenever I want, wherever I want. It's a 3.5 week trip, so I don't want to have to worry about whether or not I'll be running out of data.

BTW, I've already looked into various SIM cards and I'll either get one through one of the links provided earlier or I'll just get one when I arrive. I understand that later this month EU roaming charges will disappear. So I'm guessing that will have some affect as to the types of SIMs available.

Regarding the island of Majorca maps off line. Last fall I went to Sardinia and Corsica. Easily downloaded the Corsica map in 1 shot. I broke Sardinia into two parts - north and south - and made sure they overlapped in the middle. I had cell service for the whole trip (to me its worth the few extra bucks considering the total cost of a trip) and the only reason I did it was because in some remote areas, there was no cell service. Google Maps seamlessly switched back and forth between on and off line. Incidentally, Majorca is much smaller than Corsica and Sardinia so you shouldn't have a problem.