If you happen to be one of the many subscribers affected by the termination of services by United Mobile, then fret no more. United Mobile international cell phone customers can receive a free OneSimCard SIM by mailing their United Mobile SIM to OneSimCard.com To request the free SIM card, an online form is available at OneSimCard.com.

OneSimCard provides an international SIM card for international cell phone travelers that can be used in over 160 countries at savings of up to 80% over international roaming with traditional domestic carriers. Receiving calls is free in over 60 countries, including most of Europe.

Additional services unique to OneSimCard include personal local and toll free second numbers in the US, UK, and Canada, as well as data capability, translation services and more. Cell phones for use everywhere in the world as wll as international mobile phone service rentals are also available through the OneSimCard website.

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By now we have all heard of Virgin Mobile’s $49.99/month voice only plan but apparently Boost Mobile’s flat rate plan of $50.00 seems better. Of course this would depend on which you spend a lot on, voice calls or texting.

Apparently, while the Virgin Mobile plan covers calls, it does not include text messaging which if totaled could become more expensive once you monthly bill comes along.

Compared to Boost Mobile’s plan, they offer unlimited nationwide talk, text and multimedia messaging, wireless Web access and nationwide Walkie-Talkie that reaches more than 274 million people in more than 15,800 cities across the U.S. for an all-inclusive price of $50/month.

While the Virgin Mobile plan includes unlimited talk, those looking to send text messages will need to pay an additional $10 per month. Research shows that text messaging is on the rise, closing in on mobile phone calls as consumers’ communication of choice.

According to CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association), text messaging traffic grew to more than 75 billion messages per month in the United States in 2008, up from 7.2 billion per month in 2005.

In addition to saving consumers more than $200 per year, Boost Mobile’s plan, unlike Virgin Mobile’s plan, offers consumers picture messaging, text messaging, Web access and the popular Walkie-Talkie feature. Boost Mobile offers the fastest national “push-to-talk” network available in the prepaid industry. More than 90 percent of Boost iDEN customers surveyed say they use nationwide Boost Walkie-Talkie, and 70 percent of those customers use the service daily.

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Okay, so it’s not the first to launch a similar service for mobile phones. Still, it deserves a mention. Mocapay lets one pay without cash or card at all. Anyone who’s subscribed to Mocapay has to do is to look for stores which display the Mocapay logo, text their four-digit pin to Mocapay, wait for the transaction number and balance to arrive via SMS message and present this transaction number to the Mocapay-enabled merchant. As of current, the service is used by a limited number of merchants, most of them located in Boulder and Denver although the list keeps growing as time goes by. As to whether the use of Mocapay will spread nationally in the US, only time will tell.

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Can’t decide what mobile phone to buy? Let TryPhone.com help you out on your quest to mobile gadgetry. The service, which is free though still in its beta stages, allows you to test drive a mobile phone before you buy it. The service launched a mere two weeks ago and hence, the handphones available are still limited to Samsung Juke, BlackBerry Pearl, LG Muziq and of course, the iPhone.

You can punch keys, access menus, even take the camera for a spin. You can also watch demos on how to set ringtones, access voicemails and change wallpapers. In the future, when they expand the number of mobile phones available, TryPhone.com would be great help to the mobile phone consumer industry. As to it will remain free, however, is a bit doubtful.

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