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International non roaming charges sims.

I was looking at 0044, riiing, callblue and a few others.
Does anyone know if these work OK in the Wizard or does anyone know any company that offers better rates (especially for texts or with no minimum call charges)
Cheers

if you got a contract phone...you can make free phone calls abroad using your minutes..
I done this only 2 days ago and all seems fine..
depends on your contract
try http://www.yourcallworld.com

I dont know any UK ones who do that - and I have had contracts with Tmobile - orange - and virgin.

as i said check the site....i was on o2......didnt get charged....make sure the number on the site is included in ur minutes

I am talking about avoiding roaming charges - not making international calls from the UK

Spanish people: Do you have prepaid flatfee internet?

I'm going to spain on holiday for a couple weeks. (I know luxery )
But I do want internet when I'm there.
I want to buy a Huawei E160 USB-UMTS dongle.
And then I need a (UMTS) SIM card and an internet subscription.
Do you know company's who have prepaid cards?
I've searched, but only found old threads.
One thread of 2 years ago speeks about Movistar.es
That costed 21 euro for 4 weeks unlimited internet.
I'm also looking for that.
Is that still possible, or are there better alternatives?
Hope you can help me.
Thanx in advance!

hey! I'm from Barcelona (Spain) and have done some searching. It looks like the best option is buying a yoigo prepaid card. costs 3 euros every day you connect to the internet and you're allowed to download 100mb, then your speed is reduced to 64 kbps.
I was just looking for the same thing in the US, I'm going to cali in vacation and will be taking a nexus one to use it as gps, find hotels etc. do you know what options I have?
Just out of curiosity, where in spain are you going?
PS: here's a link http://www.yoigo.com/tarifas/internet_para_llevar.php

At&t used to for $20.00 a month.. untill the iphone came along and screwed everything up.
But i see that in europe you have to make a contract no matter if you want a phone from them or not.
In america, a plan and a contract are different things,
If you go to a cell phone company provider with your own phone, you do not need to sign a contract for 2 years to use thier service plans.
I am also going to spain (galicia) this summer, and i was going to call about that.
(And im sure you know, that At&t and T-mobile are the only GSM provider in the US)

TurboX2 said:
At&t used to for $20.00 a month.. untill the iphone came along and screwed everything up.
But i see that in europe you have to make a contract no matter if you want a phone from them or not.
In america, a plan and a contract are different things,
If you go to a cell phone company provider with your own phone, you do not need to sign a contract for 2 years to use thier service plans.
I am also going to spain (galicia) this summer, and i was going to call about that.
(And im sure you know, that At&t and T-mobile are the only GSM provider in the US)
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You don't need to make a contract in spain to get a prepaid card. Only thing you need to do is give them your ID for security purposes

josealb said:
You don't need to make a contract in spain to get a prepaid card. Only thing you need to do is give them your ID for security purposes
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that is right, it is not worth paying an 18 month contract if you are only staying here a couple of weeks, Personally I would recommend Vodafone cause they have better internet quelaity connection (at least in southern spain), and they offer prepaid sim cards and usb modems without a contract (although movistar, yoigo and orange offer them as well). The question would be, what part of spain are you traveling to and wich company has the better internet reception on that area... if you are traveling to rural areas, I would stick to the 2 major companies (Vodafone and Movistar). Hope it helps.

I'm going to Salou, about 150km south of Barcelona.
Thanx for your answers.
I hope yoigo has coverage over there.
And are there any other alternatives?

Hi,
I'm from Reus, a city near Salou (about 8km). The UMTS coverage in salou is good for all the service providers in spain.
My mobile ISP is Simyo with good prices, the only inconvenience is that don't have physical shops to buy prepaid modems/sim. My voice provider is Yoigo and they have good prices too.
My advice is that you go to a ThePhoneHouse shop, there are Vodafone, Orange and Yoigo, and they will tell you which solution was better.
You can find thephonehouse in tarragona (10km from salou) and Reus in
http://www.phonehouse.es/app/searchStore.do

Ok, I hope so that the coverage will be good.
And how are Vodafone and Orange? Are they more expensive and/or better?

ronh said:
Ok, I hope so that the coverage will be good.
And how are Vodafone and Orange? Are they more expensive and/or better?
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Vodafone will almost always give you the best coverage, at a higher price. Orange is cheaper and with a little les coverage, Simyo borrows the network from Orange so its coverage will be the same at best.
I didn't know Vodafone offered prepaid cards, if they do I'd recommend you vodafone
PS: Offtopic, Salou is cool, I've been there in vacation often but it's full of tourists, I would recommend you to move a little bit if you wanna see more of Spain than beaches, maybe driving up to Barcelona

x10i or x10a??

hi, im planning to get a x10 but im not sure which version have the 1700/2100 bandwidth... im using tmobile USA right now with $6.99 tzone. the USA tmobile uses 1700/2100 band for 3G...
some my friend told me x10a got it, but i see on gsmarena says x10i have 1700/2100... so im not sure...
plz help!! my X1 is dying already...

You're friend probably got confused because the one you need is x10i.
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ooic... does anyone still have the x10i box?? i believe should say wat band n wat version is it on the barcode label...

You need a X10i. I'm currently using mine on T-mobile USA 3G.
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how much did u pay for ur tmobile 3G?? u using the smartphone data plan or the $10 unlimited internet for regular phone??
im currently using $5.99 t-zone, a grandfather plan... i hope when i use this plan on x10i i'll get 3G... cuz on my x1 i can only get EDGE

3vilhomer said:
how much did u pay for ur tmobile 3G?? u using the smartphone data plan or the $10 unlimited internet for regular phone??
im currently using $5.99 t-zone, a grandfather plan... i hope when i use this plan on x10i i'll get 3G... cuz on my x1 i can only get EDGE
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I'm on a $10 Unlimited plan. I use to have the $5.99 t-zone plan also and was using it on my previous phones with 3G access, so yeah your t-zone plan should work just fine.

x10 box
x10i box:
X10i Luster White
Mobile Phone GSM.GPRS.EDGE.850.900.1800.1900.UMTS.HSPA band 1.4.8

Can tmobile come to canada i will worship the company like gods , because rogers charge me 60 bucks for 150 mins 10 cent per sms no caller id nail box with only 500mb 3g the data plan itself cost 25.
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berbecverde said:
x10i box:
X10i Luster White
Mobile Phone GSM.GPRS.EDGE.850.900.1800.1900.UMTS.HSPA band 1.4.8
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huh?? x10i doesnt say 1700/2100 on the barcode label??

wrongfeifong said:
can tmobile come to canada i will worship the company like gods , because rogers charge me 60 bucks for 150 mins 10 cent per sms no caller id nail box with only 500mb 3g the data plan itself cost 25.
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agreed, canada data is expensive!!!

Keegan_P said:
agreed, canada data is expensive!!!
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That's insane, I'm in Australia on the 3 network. My carrier unlocked x10a is $0 per month on the $99 unlimited plan, I get unmetered phone calls, unmetered text and mms, voicemail and 4GB of mobile data.
America's are expensive as hell!

Yea Canadian cell phone plans are pretty BS. I pay about $75 a month for: 250 daytime min
Unlimited evenings and weekends
Caller ID, Voicemail, Unlim Text Msg pack
500mb data
Luckily im on a grandfathered plan with rogers but this is still too high IMO.

Kroniq420 said:
Yea Canadian cell phone plans are pretty BS. I pay about $75 a month for: 250 daytime min
Unlimited evenings and weekends
Caller ID Voicemail bundle pack
500mb data
Luckily im on a grandfathered plan with rogers but this is still too high IMO.
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Wow you are getting hosed as well. I pay $52 a month for the same plan I have unlimited text as well, but I'm sure you do in that as well.

That's loco, I mean there's 34,160,000 people in Canada and 22,412,633 in Australia, I mean that's 10million or so people, but I can't see how they can justify that much of a difference with the mobile plan pricing as I'm sure the infrastructure is almost the same...
Although how fast is your theoretical broadband max? Cause ours is only 24mbps

3vilhomer said:
huh?? x10i doesnt say 1700/2100 on the barcode label??
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UMTS.HSPA band 1.4.8
band 1 = 2100MHz
band 4 = 1700MHz AWS (what T-mobile USA uses for their 3G)
band 8 = 900MHz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands

sadams39 said:
That's loco, I mean there's 34,160,000 people in Canada and 22,412,633 in Australia, I mean that's 10million or so people, but I can't see how they can justify that much of a difference with the mobile plan pricing as I'm sure the infrastructure is almost the same...
Although how fast is your theoretical broadband max? Cause ours is only 24mbps
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Well your faster than us at that, we get a max of 21mbps on HSPA+

ok i just got my x10i today for $490 USD. i can connect to 3G using tzone with tmobile!! awesome!!
my previous phone was a X1 and i use the microsoft myphone to sync all my data... is there anyway i can port everything to my X10 now??

3vilhomer said:
ok i just got my x10i today for $490 USD. i can connect to 3G using tzone with tmobile!! awesome!!
my previous phone was a X1 and i use the microsoft myphone to sync all my data... is there anyway i can port everything to my X10 now??
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I also switch from X1 to X10 and I used an app called Sprite Migrate, free from the market to port all the data. It works perfectly!

1 month trip to USA - prepaid internet?

Hello,
I live in Germany and I'm going on holidays to the USA (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona) for one month (august to september).
As I can't live without internet I thought of getting some kind of prepaid SIM-card over there with a data plan.
Now I don't have any clue which provider I should chose, where and how to get a prepaid SIM, which offer etc.
What would you recommend me?
I heard that the coverage isn't that good in the US and as I'm planning to go to some outlying places too, I'm aware that I won't have reception all the time. But that's okay.
I just need a SIM to do some calls and to write a few mails or check Facebook from time to time – I guess it'll be around 200mbyte and 1 hour calls for this month.
As I have a European phone (NexusOne) I need a GSM network of course.
Best regards and thanks for your help in advance,
lauslein

If u go to Indonesia, a lot of prepaid GSM & CDMA cards could be chosen here

Interested too, will be going to Arizona next summer.
Basically, I only need data and maybe a bit of texting.

seeing that u have a nexus one,,,which bands does it support? the tmobile or just europe? i suggest tmobile if u want 3g but they dont have data plans
at&t does but no 3g i'm sure
its 20$ on at&t for 100mb of data and 20$ for unlimited texting(sms) even to germany i think

Thanks for your reply!
Diamond_dawg said:
seeing that u have a nexus one,,,which bands does it support? the tmobile or just europe?
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Good question, I'll have to look this up. But I got it directly from Google (Device Seeding), so I guess it's some kind of an international version
20$ for 100MB sounds fair (even though I pay less for 1GB HSDPA at home) . The trip's going to be expensive anyway, so I'm willing to spend some money on that part, too

[Q] Just moved to the US... and already lost !

Hi everybody...
Ok, so here's my (short) story:
I've just moved from France to the US (Minneapolis), and I brought with me my HTC HD2 (Leo) from France... and yes, it's unlocked
My provider was Orange France, and I used to pay 29€ (approx $32) for my plan, that includes 60min and unlimited data (I really don't use text messaging a lot), and that was perfect for me.
Since I just moved to the USA, I'm a little bit lost looking for cell phones plans... I have a hard time to find a decent plan that won't cost me too much.
What I need is: approx 60min for calls (could be a little more) and data (unlim. or a least 200mb/mths). Text messages are optionnal. I'd like to pay something's around the same price I used to pay in France (let's say max $35 to $39)
(I might be wrong, but it seems that US plans are really expensive... so if you have any advice I'll be very happy to hear about it)
Thanks a lot for your help !

Go for prepaid its cheaper but not good data plans...but there is Simple mobile that has good plans

There is no such thing in America. France sounds like a magical place for smartphone users...

Imaginary Enemy said:
There is no such thing in America. France sounds like a magical place for smartphone users...
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Agreed, the plans here are no where close to as cheap as $35. Most providers here will make you get unlimited data if you have a smart phone, to avoid overcharges, but I don't think you'll get what you want for $32, that's crazy cheap.

Diamond_dawg said:
Go for prepaid its cheaper but not good data plans...but there is Simple mobile that has good plans
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Simple Mobile runs on T-Mobile. Their "Unlimited Data" is capped @ 1GB and they will terminate your line if you go over. If you don't use that much data, then go for it: http://www.phonenews.com/simple-mob...b-accounts-terminated-when-cap-reached-11989/

Thanks guys ... I'll take a look at the differents plans.
... and yes, France was a magical place for smartphone users AND internet (my internet plan was 29.99€/month, that includes really fast broadband, free phone to all countries and cable TV)

29€ is more like ~$40
virgin mobile
$25 - 200min and unlimited data\mms\txt
or 40 for 1200min
the only downside about cdma prepaid plans is they usually dont have a great selection of phones and usually phones are expensive.
but you can learn to "flash" phones..

Leviuqse said:
29€ is more like ~$40
virgin mobile
$25 - 200min and unlimited data\mms\txt
or 40 for 1200min
the only downside about cdma prepaid plans is they usually dont have a great selection of phones and usually phones are expensive.
but you can learn to "flash" phones..
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Virgin runs on Sprint. They wont take any CDMA phones that aren't branded as Virgin. They have the Blackberry Curve 8530 for 200 and they're getting the LG Optimus V (same as Optimus S from Sprint) for 150, which is without contract.
If you want the Android cousin to your Leo, go to Sprint and get the HTC Evo which is what I have. They're still pretty cheap. Or you can buy one from someone and flash it to Boost Mobile (which also runs on Sprint. I don't recommend MetroPCS because their data is slow, however they're cheap and they will flash the phone for you to their network in one of their stores.
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Leviuqse said:
29€ is more like ~$40
virgin mobile
$25 - 200min and unlimited data\mms\txt
or 40 for 1200min
the only downside about cdma prepaid plans is they usually dont have a great selection of phones and usually phones are expensive.
but you can learn to "flash" phones..
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I know how to flash phones..., mine is already flashed
And I'd like a plan whithout buying a new phone, my Leo is just 6mths old and I really like it
Well, I'm just back from downtown MPLS... asked about plans at a T-MO store, it seems they have a $29 plan for 500min calls, and a $10 plan for 200mb data, which may fit my requirements.