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I BELIEVE I ordered the SIM on Tuesday and we arrived on Friday. No SIM Friday. No SIM Saturday. I think it arrived on the Monday. Now luckily, I had a SIMYO SIM (Germany) and a UM SIM. So we had something to work with - there were only two of us. Yes, I told the hotel owners. My wife is from Duesseldorf and we have been staying in the same small hotel, private owners, for years now.

Yes, that should do it with the T-Mobile NONSTOP card. I bought a card on Ebay Germany with 0 balance and had it shipped to me. I will have to change plans when I arrive or online shortly before we leave here.

Our German friends might want to weigh in on which they think is better, SOLOMO or my NONSTOP T-Mobile route. I think D1 900 offers better coverage vs the vistream 1800.

As I wrote, there is a breakeven point on a single call. If your outbound calls are going to be short and sweet and at different times, then solomo is probably the way to go. You have to overcome the 29 ecent initial charge. If, on the other hand, you can make long calls or multiple back-to-back calls, then the NONSTOP is the way to go. My wife has a cousin and since they don't talk much during the year, their calls are usually > an hour. Well, even the SUNSIM rate at 8 ecents per minute is still 4.80 euros. See why I am going to give my wife the NONSTOP SIM?

Stan