Hi,
I have a US model XDA and will be traveling to the UK. My wife has a Virgin Mobile account which I think uses the Orange network, but I believe they are on the 1800 band.
O2 uses 900mhz, but I noticed that only 1 meg of gprs is free then it's 2.35 a meg. My last US tmobile bill showed my use at 0ver 100 meg. (I can't believe it's that much, but . . .)
Any suggestions on Pay and Go sims with GPRS?
Is it possible to get one in the US so I don't have to pick it up when I get there.
Thanks in advance for any help. This group has been very helpful.
UK SIM CARDS
You can buy a UK Pay as you go from between $10 to $30 O2 the main UK net for the XDAII's are doing 300 text (or 75 MMS) a month for a tenner ($18) so hard to beat (sure some one knows different).
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Hi! I use an XDA with Orange SIM in the UK which used to roam on GPRS well, using Movistar, when I am in Spain. Since the new UK upgrade was added a couple of weeks ago in will no longer log on to GPRS in Spain but works fine in the UK. Anyone else had this problem, any ideas? Thanks.
I used my XDA in Gran Canaria with GPRS on Movistar last week. It worked like a dream with an 02 card in it. Put an Orange sim in and it wouldn't work at all!
imordey said:
I used my XDA in Gran Canaria with GPRS on Movistar last week. It worked like a dream with an 02 card in it. Put an Orange sim in and it wouldn't work at all!
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Did you check the roaming rates for GPRS? I would not want to be around you in the couple of weeks after you receive your next phone bill.
I used my XDA in Gran Canaria with GPRS on Movistar last week. It worked like a dream with an 02 card in it. Put an Orange sim in and it wouldn't work at all!
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Exactly the same with me when trying to use with Orange . No I have not received horrific bills from O2 either and I used it for days in Spain over the last threee months on GPRS - sounds a bit like a scare story to me!!
A state license to sell a MB for GBP 21.15 (30 Euro)
According to this, O2-UK's GPRS roaming rates are either 7.05 or 21.15 Pounds per MB (!), depending on the provider. And according to the list, Telefonica/MOVISTAR is in the 21.15 UK Pounds per MB category.
Either you'll be lucky because the billing is still a mess (wouldn't surprise me), or you have been screwed. I still remember the time I brought a tri-band phone to the US, and came home to find the roaming rates were USD 6 per minute for calls within the US, and something like USD 10 per minute for international.
Rule 1 for GPRS roaming: do not use it until the prices come down. Linking up through a regular GSM data-call can be an order of magnitude cheaper, especially if your ISP has a dialin number in the country you're in.
Is it me or does anyone agree that GPRS costs are way too high?
Lets face it, using a dial-up modem on a land line is a damn site cheaper, and in these days of broadband, the charges should be 10megs for 50p, not £5-£10!
And that goes for normal use, not just roaming!
Are there any decent providers of 3G pay as you go for the Universal? I bought an unlocked handset and am currently using gprs with Orange, but would like to try3G.
Cheers
Rowan
Vodafones pay and go is 3g, but the Internet is restricted but can be unlocked by giving you credit card details to prove your 18, if you don't have a credit card your restricted to vodafones site...
Or there's Three's pay and go but last time i used it the internet was in a "Walled Garden" you where restricted three's sites only
Cheers - I think I might give them a go..
Cheers
Rowan
orange 3g payg sims are £5 from orange shops, and the £1 per day orange world access works with it.
richard
I'm in the US (from UK) at the moment and I need a prepaid sim card on a US carrier as I'm here for 5 months (to go in my hermes). I bought a cheap virgin mobile one just to use the sim but it turns out it doesn't have one. What carrier can I get an actual sim card from and what's the cheapest?
Not overly bothered by data charges or anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Stoo
stoo said:
I'm in the US (from UK) at the moment and I need a prepaid sim card on a US carrier as I'm here for 5 months (to go in my hermes). I bought a cheap virgin mobile one just to use the sim but it turns out it doesn't have one. What carrier can I get an actual sim card from and what's the cheapest?
Not overly bothered by data charges or anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Stoo
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go to a Wal-Mart or a K-Mart, last time I was in the US, they had a phone section there with these cheap-ass sim cards for a few bucks... it's $2 to the £1 anyway now, so use a british card to pay for it if need be
Most telcos will try to charge you $50.00 for a prepaid sim card. Check out your local 7-11 store and look for a sim/phone combo by Speakout (service by Cingular). They are the cheapest I have found...
I have not seen sim-only kits in retail stores, but you could always pick up a cheapy phone and use the sim in that.
That said; no US carrier offers data on their prepaid sims.
You are right about the Virgin phones; they use a non GSM network...
T-mobile is probably the cheapest at the moment. What you can do is pop into a T-mobile store and ask them for a prepaid sim, they can turn any of their own sims into prepaid, and if you add some call credit they'll usually give you the sim for free.
Thanks guys,
I'll have to check out some of these suggestions on saturday
stoo - buy T-Mobile, put $100 to account and you will have 1 year validity for outgoing and incoming phone-calls.
It is not true what ScottC says - T-Mobile will offer you free data - use wap.voicestream.com APN. With no proxy you will have good internet access - speed limited to their EDGE network (around 200 kbps).
If you have any other questions - PM me.
Cingular offers Pay as You Go, and has data at $.01 KB, Texts at $.05
There are SIMs available at Cingular stores, or eBay
and, yes, I use one in a higher end phone (8525)
update
$120 dollars in new york for t-mobile sim, 600 free usa minutes, free internet and $5 credit (7c/text, not sure of international call charges yet)
i'd be lost without internet on my phone so money well spent. (better than £5/megabyte, 40p/text, 50p/min call/receive international on uk roaming)
(in N.Y. at the moment)
Can you get Tmobile's contract type internet packages on Flexpay?
AT&T's go phones are a good idea.
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Can you get Tmobile's contract type internet packages on Flexpay?
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i'd contacted t-mobile usa customer services beforehand and they said there was no way I could get data on prepaid.
it appeared the guy in the shop put it through as a contract with fake id and no billing data.
I'm going to visit the US in a few days for one month (holiday). I'm going to travel with Amtrak trains through the whole country.
The problem is that roaming in the US is extremely expensive. I would like to have internet access, but I don't want to pay 10 euro per MB. Therefore I'm looking for a US-carrier who offers an unlimited internet access (PAYG) for only 1 month.
I have a Verizon phone (HTC Touch Pro 2), but I don't know whether I can use it in the US (I've unlocked it to work on European networks).
What do you recommend me? Using a SIM-card or re-enabling my Verizon phone?
Thank you
- Edit: I would like to use it for my laptop as well, if possible
Virgin does for 25 $ a month I think and boost is 60$ verizon is 30 for "unlimited" data extra for talk time and texts. Tmobile is ok in densely populated areas ATT is the same
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I'm going to Australia soon so I'm wondering which telco is the best?
I'm looking for the cheapest internet, and prepaid only.
I know only 3 telcos; Vodafone, Virgin Mobile & Optus.
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I'm going to Australia soon so I'm wondering which telco is the best?
I'm looking for the cheapest internet, and prepaid only.
I know only 3 telcos; Vodafone, Virgin Mobile & Optus.
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I just recently came back from Australia. I got an amazing prepay deal with Vodafone.
Prepay Flexi Cap ($30 AUD)
500 mb data
$150 worth of credit to spend on ANYTHING (txt, calls (national and international)
$350 worth of voice calls to another Australian Vodafone phone.
Best deal I could find.
help
also I'm new
I need more help please?
can any body give more details & experiences
I usually use 1GB per month Internet traffic
Well it depends what youre looking for!
are you looking for pre-paid or post paid? and also depends on your needs and your budget. For the best service, Telstra is where to go, but is the most expensive which is not what youre looking! I'm on Optus and must say that for me, i find it the best plan, for price and coverage. amaysim is probably one of the cheapest you'll find, but im not too sure about the coverage on that. Red bull mobile also offers a 'pre paid' plan, which gives you virtually unlimited everything for $365 which last for a year. So a dollar a day. Red bull uses Vodafones network, but there is alot of complaints with coverage in Australia with Vodafone. I know for myself i had to change after bad service.
As I said, it depends on what youre looking for as there are alot of options.