Testing USA SIM & Mobile Phone Number from UK

Question

I'm a UK based IOS / Android developer and want to test SMS capability to a US mobile phone number(e.g. many google services offer SMS capability only to US numbers)

Does anyone have a recommended way of doing this? At the moment, I'm looking at just buying a pre-paid US SIM and putting it into an old unlocked tri / quad band phone. But perhaps someone has walked this path before and has a better way of doing things?

Answer 1

I am in charge of technology for simstogo, we are providers of global roaming SIMs. I would not test any SMS delivery using global SIMs if you are specifically testing US, exceptions apply but the safe way to do it is using a SIM from a US operator. If you need some more details please get in touch, roberto.carballa@simstogo.co.uk