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My ISP Connections with Greek pay as you go sim card (voda)

does anybody know if it is possible to use a Greek pay as you go sim card (vodafone) to connect to the internet. i am a UK resident but often visit the contry, and i am assuming it would be much cheaper to use one of these cards than my roaming with my UK line.
thanks

Yes, you can. Check www.vodafone.gr for the costs. English pages are available. Ask : [email protected] for the settings.
I have a permanent connection with Voda GR which does not work all over Europe because of agreements between the providers.
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GPRS in China

Hi, I have a jasjar in the UK using the o2 network, i will be going to China in june and would like to use the gprs nextwork there. Could someone tell me what i need to do to set it up? The help desk here keep insisting that my set up should just work, but I've been to China 3 times already and 3 times the gprs network was unavailable to me. What do I need to do?
Thanks

It all depends if O2 has a GPRS roaming agreement with the operator in China. You need to ask O2 this as they may not have GPRS agreements with every operator which they have a voice roaming agreement.
But when you find out what their roaming data charges are I think you'll find it will be far more economic to get a local prepaid SIM if the operator in the region that you are going to has prepaid GPRS. A quick google shows that E-Tong in Shanghai provide this http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20030707_use_gprs_in_shanghai.htm

That's easy. But firstly , would you like to use sim card produced by China?
If you use chinese sim card, the settings are easy.And what's more, it costs only 2$ for a month . Such phone number start with '136.........'.

The roaming will be extremely expensive. So it's better to forget about it.
The best way is buy one local prepaid card. But it's not easy just like saying.
China has two operators, China Mobile and China Unicom. China Unicom doesn't provide the GPRS service but CDMA. So if you want to use GPRS connection, you have to choose China Mobile. And China Mobile has three kinds of branded service, Go-Tone, M-Zone and Shenzhou Xing. The 1st one is only for registered users, so you won't be able to apply it. M-Zone is the prepaid and for sure with GPRS service, the last one may not be able to use GPRS depends on the different region.
But one thing you must pay attention. All prepaid card provided GPRS service is only able to use http connection with proxy. If you just want to browsing the web pages, it should be no problem. But if you want to receive/send email, there is no way.
Settings:
1: Web browsing
APN: CMWAP
Proxy: 10.0.0.172 port:80
2: MMS
APN: CMWAP
Gateway: 10.0.0.172 port:9201
Server address: http://mmsc.monternet.com
Enjoy it.

To use GPRS roaming in China check out http://www.o2.co.uk/business/produc...ices/travelling/using/gprsnets/0,,600,00.html
Seems its only China Mobile. And the charges are (gulp)
http://www.o2.co.uk/business/productsservices/mobileservices/travelling/using/gprs/0,,606,00.html

dahuzi said:
The best way is buy one local prepaid card. But it's not easy just like saying.
China has two operators, China Mobile and China Unicom. China Unicom doesn't provide the GPRS service but CDMA. So if you want to use GPRS connection, you have to choose China Mobile. And China Mobile has three kinds of branded service, Go-Tone, M-Zone and Shenzhou Xing. The 1st one is only for registered users, so you won't be able to apply it. M-Zone is the prepaid and for sure with GPRS service, the last one may not be able to use GPRS depends on the different region.
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Hi dahuzi... thanks for your reply. Is the Go-Tone a contract service with a monthly service charge?...

May I make some amendments to what dahuzi said:
I'm using both Go-zone and M-zone, and both can browse websites and check email. They are 2 types of connection; one is so called cmwap, and one is cmnet. You should use cmnet, which is the normal GPRS connection used worldwide.
The charge is different in different regions. Let's say in Beijing, the charge is RMB 20 (approx. Eur 2.00) for 50Mbs, RMB 100 for 800Mbs.

1: Web browsing
APN: CMWAP
Proxy: 10.0.0.172 port:80
2: MMS
APN: CMWAP
Gateway: 10.0.0.172 port:9201
Server address: http://mmsc.monternet.com
The above settings is for mobile handset only. You will not be able to use for full intenet usage.
If you intend to use your PDA or PC to access the internet using GPRS. You will require cwnet for full interenet access, and this service only available for locals pay monthly account package only. The service is not available for pay as go customer.
Internet on the move for foreign visitors in China may be confine to Starbucks or some WiFi hotspots.
Anyone who knows the China Mobile CEOs please pass this message to them, we are frustrated with their GPRS services unable to give full interent access for us foreigners.

Well, I was in China during my easter holidays and was very happy to find, after getting my bill, that O2 did not charge a penny for GPRS roaming in China with China mobile. Furthermore there is no need for additional settings on Exec so that everything worked fine and, freely. The GPRS roaming was really perfect; there was no need to buy a SIM from Chinese operators.
I am with an O2 data tariff which accounts for 200M data per month (29.8 pounds inc. tax).
I'm however not sure if it is the same case with Orange but I guess, from my past experience with China Mobile (I used the GPRS service since its open day in CM), it is highly possible to be a free roaming. HOWEVER I AM NOT LIABLE TO ANY MIS-GUESSES so please don't accuse me if I was wrong ..

My service provider is Mobilinkgsm in Pakistan. Last week I visited China. My GPRS worked perfectly there in China. I also sent and received MMS messages without any problem.
I was not required to change any settings for either the GPRS access point nor the MMS settings as my connection with MobilinkGSM Pakistan is set to International Roaming. I have an i-mate Jasjar.
GPRS international roaming rates for Mobilinkgsm Pakistan though are quite high. They charge US$ 0.02 per KB which means almost US$ 20.50 for a MB of Upload + Download data.
Just wanted to share my experience.
Regards

GPRS in Prague, Czech

I'm visiting Prague next week with my Trinity...
How do I configure the network connection?
I intend to purchase a SIM there for calls and data.
I would appreciate any info about the configurations for Prague.
In ISREAL we have a WAP configuration and INTERNET one. Are 2 options in Prague, too?

In Czech we also have two connection points. One for WAP and second for the INTERNET.
If you plan to purchase a SIM in Czech (02, T-Mobile or Vodafone) they will give you all necessary instructions
to configure/use/activate the network connection etc.
No worries ... just ask them...

hujer said:
In Czech we also have two connection points. One for WAP and second for the INTERNET.
If you plan to purchase a SIM in Czech (02, T-Mobile or Vodafone) they will give you all necessary instructions
to configure/use/activate the network connection etc.
No worries ... just ask them...
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Any idea how much it costs per 1Mega?

If you purchase Czech prepaid card, you will usually pay 0,06 Czech crown per 1 kB so it is 60 Czech Crown per 1 MB (3.5 USD/1MB).
With O2/T-Mobile you can have unlimited data for 1 month on their prepaid SIM card for 850 Czech Crown (cca 50 USD). But there are some other cheaper as well...
Only O2 has 3G coverage.
I recommend you to get a prepaid SIM card from O2 and activate "O2 Internet on your mobile" - http://www.cz.o2.com/osobni/en/inte...email-mobilni_internet-Internet_v_mobilu.html (there is FUP but many users experience they are not applying the FUP yet). The best thing, if you activate this service till the end of October, you will get the first three moths of the service for free.

moneytoo said:
If you purchase Czech prepaid card, you will usually pay 0,06 Czech crown per 1 kB so it is 60 Czech Crown per 1 MB (3.5 USD/1MB).
With O2/T-Mobile you can have unlimited data for 1 month on their prepaid SIM card for 850 Czech Crown (cca 50 USD). But there are some other cheaper as well...
Only O2 has 3G coverage.
I recommend you to get a prepaid SIM card from O2 and activate "O2 Internet on your mobile" - http://www.cz.o2.com/osobni/en/inte...email-mobilni_internet-Internet_v_mobilu.html (there is FUP but many users experience they are not applying the FUP yet). The best thing, if you activate this service till the end of October, you will get the first three moths of the service for free.
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1. What is FUP?
2. In Vodafone website (http://www.vodafone.cz/osobni/data/tarify/karta.htm) there is a price of 48 Crowns for WAP. It is more expensive than internet?!

1. FUP stands for Fair Usage Policy. If you exceed some (download data) limit, they may slow down your connection.
2. It's 0.48 Czech crown per 1 kB for WAP. So yes, it's way expensive then Internet connection. But today, no one use WAP connection anyway (I guess you don't need wap gateway, nor the access to provider's mobile portal).

moneytoo said:
1. FUP stands for Fair Usage Policy. If you exceed some (download data) limit, they may slow down your connection.
2. It's 0.48 Czech crown per 1 kB for WAP. So yes, it's way expensive then Internet connection. But today, no one use WAP connection anyway (I guess you don't need wap gateway, nor the access to provider's mobile portal).
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Here, in Israel, the WAP is cheap and "internet" is expensive!

I now have a Czech Vodafone SIM.
I can't use the GPRS. I configured the APN to "ointernet" but it isn't working!
Can someone help?

thanks you sharing !
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roeylee said:
I now have a Czech Vodafone SIM.
I can't use the GPRS. I configured the APN to "ointernet" but it isn't working!
Can someone help?
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APN "internet" and solved
btw there are tons of free wifi networks in prague

XDA-Developers
Hi guys,
Inherited a Stealth few weeks back but i realised that the Wireless option (to turn it on and off) doesnt work, nothing happens when i try to turn on my wifi, so i did a hard reset, but after the hard reset, it doesnt even detect or show up my wireless options. Any ideas guys?

[Q] Change phone Band from USA to EURO

I bought an Atrix in the USA but I'm living in the Netherlands. I was able to unlock my phone with an unlock code from AT&T, however the internet is not working. Calls can be made and H+ shows in the upper right corner but no connection.
After some research (*#*#4636#*#*), I saw that the band was USA and no other selection option were possible.
My question: can the band be changed to EURO in order to make the phone usable?

Have you entered your porvider apn?
I bought mine in the US too and i created a new APN with my provider settings and it works fine.

Yes, I have entered the APN settings and verified them with Vodafone. Problem seems to really be located in the bands used.

CynicalDreamer said:
Yes, I have entered the APN settings and verified them with Vodafone. Problem seems to really be located in the bands used.
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vodafone netherlands runs on 900 band and the atrix supports this automatically, you cannot change the band. if the phone is seeing the H+ then it already recognize your network you just have to make sure you use the right apn and have data enabled in your settings. also make sure there is a green circle next to your apn name, this enables the apn.

You may have not activated CDMA in * # * # 4636 # * # * (Phoneinfo) you need to make GSM Auto (PRL)
(CDMA is only U.S. Baseband) in Europe we have WCDMA

wcdma is 3g in north america. ive been using wcdma only setting to stop my phone from going to edge

Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks
Change the "Select network" to automatic if it's not already.

download apn internet on off =)...its work for me ....

spline1 said:
You may have not activated CDMA in * # * # 4636 # * # * (Phoneinfo) you need to make GSM Auto (PRL)
(CDMA is only U.S. Baseband) in Europe we have WCDMA
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CDMA is not in the atrix. we use WCDMA just like europe.

spline1 said:
You may have not activated CDMA in * # * # 4636 # * # * (Phoneinfo) you need to make GSM Auto (PRL)
(CDMA is only U.S. Baseband) in Europe we have WCDMA
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AT&T uses WCDMA as well.
We don't use CDMA, that's Verizon.
EDIT: dLo beat me to it.

Still no luck...
1. WCDMA selected as preferred network type.
2. APN triple checked and activated.
3. H+ showing in upper-right corner.
4. Enabled roaming in the data manager to make sure this wasn't blocking anything.
5. Tried SIM in HTC Wildfire with same APN and network settings => WORKING
Any more ideas on what is blocking my internet?? :S

It seems that putting the Atrix on WCDMA preferred is not working, it will automatically switch back to GSM....

I still believe the fault is located in the inability to set the bands to EURO or even automatically. You can only select USA here... If there is anyone who knows how to change this, maybe give a direct command to the modem, I will express my gratitude using paypal

Did you activate the phone in the US? like did you put in AT&T SIM and turn it on? I had the same problem with my phone when I activated it in us, i'm waiting on a new one that has not been activated in US.

I unlocked the phone in the Netherlands with a Vodafone SIM. Tried using a SIM from a different provider just now: T-Mobile = working!
Now I have to figure out what the difference between T-Mobile & Vodafone is.... Any ideas?

CynicalDreamer said:
I unlocked the phone in the Netherlands with a Vodafone SIM. Tried using a SIM from a different provider just now: T-Mobile = working!
Now I have to figure out what the difference between T-Mobile & Vodafone is.... Any ideas?
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I have none, sorry... I use O2 here in Germany without problems. Unlocked in US. Activated and used a US (AT&T prepaid) SIM for a while before coming here, too.
What I HAVE learned (the hard way) is that different SIMs FROM O2 will have different APNs. I.e., O2 prepaid options have different APNs than their contracts.
My network type is GSM auto (PRL) and I don't have problems going G->H+

Hum....maybe getting a replacement phone wont help me then. Oh well its on its way already.

I looked into the APN differences but the one I used was the correct one, so that can't be the problem.
Had a long conversation with Vodafone yesterday. When they finally connected me through with an engineer this guy managed to explain it to me in this way: Vodafone has policies on what phones can be used to access their network, different models need to be accepted individually. Sometimes changes need to be made on the network. According to him this was the reason my Atrix has no internet connectivity in The Netherlands, the phone hasn't been released here and the network hasn't been tested with it.
Thing that I find strange is the fact that other providers in The Netherlands have no problem with internet on the Atrix...

[Q] I may have finally diagnosed my emergency calls only problem but...

But I need help.
Copied from my thread on a jamaican tech site:
"So I'm trying to figure out if Digicel has screwed me over yet again. MCC and MNC are beyond me thats why I'm hoping some techie here can help me. I recently figured out that the reason my Droid Razr M (XT907/Verizon version) was going into emergency calls only mode was because it was failing to register on our 2G network. If I do a manual search I pick up three networks, Digicel 3G (338 - 05) Digicel 3G (338 - 180) and Digicel 2G (338 - 180). I'm pretty sure MCC & MNC, which can be found in your apn settings, are pulled directly from the sim card seeing as when I went from At&t sim to LIME sim in my previous phone they changed. My MCC & MNC are 338 & 05 respectively, as such (or at least I think this is why) I can only register on Digicel 3G (338 - 05). I'm sure that the sim you have doesn't matter all you have to do is pay for their data plan to get 3G, however when I bought my sim back in January they asked me if it was a '4G' capable phone to which I told them yes and they gave me this sim card.
My questions to you guys are:
1) Do you think they did this deliberately forcing us to pay for data plan before we can get service?* Which is what I had to do
2) Is there any way to get onto their 2G network? The constant search for a 3G network drains too much battery and limits my coverage around the island
3) If the only way is to change my sim card can I still keep my number?*
4) If I was to change my sim how would I ensure I get one that has MNC 180? Because I'm sure I can't ask the cashier that as they know next to nothing about tech only enough to make a sale"
*Please ignore this questions as they relate to Digicel Jamaica subscribers only and the ongoing delay of number portability coming to Jamaica