PlatinumTel Mobile GSM Sim Card

The PTel service works great. The pricing is very good and is very transparent. I really like how you can bring your own phone/smartphone to the service (as long as the device is unlocked), plug in a SIM card, and pretty much go from there. If you're on a budget and/or you want good transparency on your billing with solid nationwide coverage, this is a good value.

This sim card is standard size, with a micro-sim punch-out. It will not fit the iPhone. Platinum Telecom runs on the T-Mobile network, and have many cheap plans. Their customer service is very helpful. Highly recommended.

I was connected with Ptel on the sprint network (CDMA) for some time. When they decided to change to all GSM I found a phone I liked and installed this sim card and was back up and running again. For me this is a great deal as I don't use my phone to make calls, I use my home phone. So, I like that I can just pay for the minutes I use

Works and not just on Ptel but worked on one other T-mobile sub contracter, but I more than likely don't remember which, as I've tried to many, in two different countries.Would recommended this seller and item.

This is a better price for this tiny little plastic card it is cheaper that buying it direct form Ptel.

Tried on three different unlocked GSM phones, a smartphone, a blackberry and a basic Nokia, and NONE gets a signal!!! Spent over two weeks with Ptel customer service back and forth, and they still could not pinpoint the problem. At some point, the customer service told me that their SIM card only guarantees to work with phones purchased from their website!!! Then what a big lie to advertise their product to be compatible with bring-your-own devices!!! Forever done with Ptel!

I can not add credit for my card.I was used my debit card for add the credit, but useless. anyone have trick?

My wife and i were late arrivals to the smart phone era. I just never saw the need or value in $80-$100 per month to be able to watch youtube on my phone. Well that amount would buy my kids 2 piano lessons or me like 8 12-packs. So we endured the humiliation and persevered with our clamshell phones on Virgin mobile until 2013 when I felt the Mrs had had about all she could endure and I finally caved. After scouring the internet and beyond I found what was the dirt cheapest pay-as-you-go smart phone plan on the planet.I got her a Samsung Nexus S circa 2010 phone, a Ptel simcard and got a cool phone number on Google voice for her. Well Google voice was sort of a disaster, but the Ptel paygo plan has been highly satisfactory. The rates continue to be as follows:5cents/min voice2cents per text message (SMS) or text message with an image (MMS)10 cents per MB data.These are very reasonable prices if you are a light user of your cell phone for calls or data, and never ever stream videos or music via the data connection. We never stream content on our devices unless on wi-fi. Nor do we download apps or update apps unless on wi-fi. Hey we can live with that "limitation". Regarding phone calls on the device, they are not daily, and when they occur are brief. most calls are from home over our VOIP device called ooma.To give you a sense of the data costs we do incur on ptel consider the following based on our experience, because hey sometimes data is extremely useful:Using google maps and the bulit in GPS will use 1-3 MB of data to find a destination, check traffic, and get me on the way to where we want to go. It is not often I need this feature as we both have a dedicated GPS device in the car, but in a pinch it is great to have.It is a few hundred KB to check my email on data. Sending an MMS is like 100KB of data (plus 2cents for the MMS message). 100KB of data is like 1 cent so it is like 3cents to send a picture message of your bean burrito to someone. But why on earth would you need to do that?It is 1-2 MB to do a google search for a restaurant or movie show times near you.We are very light phone users, and rarely use data when out and about. We spend probably $7 to $10 per month on each phone. Granted you have to buy the phone upfront but over a few months you are saving boatloads of greenbacks. Ptel minutes you purchase never expire, but to keep your account active you have to spend a certain amount every few months. A smaller expenditure keeps the account active for a shorter time than a larger purchase of minutes.The "risk" i alluded to in the title was this: after a year using her Nexus S , my wife has become an avid texter with her friends and other parents, and has been dissatisfied with the general slowness of the device. She has also somehow became enamored with the iphone. So now we got her an unlocked new iphone 5c, cut the simcard from her Nexus S so it will fit in the iphone, and now she is living among the world of the apple-ified. So she thinks we are living large, but little does she know I am still the cheapskate I have always been.