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When I was in Vietnam I just bought whatever SIM off someone on the road and then went back to my hotel room and googled up the activation instructions. Usually you just text the name of the plan you want to a special shortcode (same as most UK prepaid)

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Same here in Uruguay, for prepaid phone use, you just buy a SIM (2 dollars), then you have to either buy a prepaid card or go to a store where you can "fill" your SIM.

Then you can text the name the plan you want, I pay 5 dollars for one month's worth of data (384 megabytes). You can also get one gigabyte for U$S 5, but expires after 5 days.

http://www.antel.com.uy/antel/personas-y-hogares/internet/pl...

there's also a fixed contract 3 gb data plan for U$ 15.

So all the sims on the street come with data?

If it's like the Philippines, all the SIM does is get you on the network, but with only a SIM card you can't call, text, or anything. Then you purchase a prepaid card from a convenience store or anywhere with call minutes, text messages, and/or data -- the card has a long code that you plug in to the phone to activate it and associate the minutes etc with your SIM.

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