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Over 38 Meg of roaming for six pounds (only if UK based)

Easy mobile has this offer on until the fifth.
https://www.easymobile.com/selfcare/index.html
Which gets you a twenty one quid credit for a pound, and the sim will work in LOCKED UK T-Mobile phones, and obviously any unlocked ones too. (Easymobile piggybacks on T-mobile).
If you are referred by someone then each of you gets an extra fiver credit.
You can register three times per address - but you need a credit or debit card registered at that address to pay the 3x £1.
Also if you register with quidco...
http://www.quidco.com/easymobile/
and add another pound of credit within 60 days of receiving your sims - they will pay a tenner a sim to your paypal account.
So once you have registered and picked your first number - you use that number to refer you for the other two to get yourself the referral and referred bonus of a fiver to each, each time (so twenty quid).
So potentially for registering for three sims at a pound then with a one pound top up so six quid in total - you are getting £30 back to paypal and £66 in credit and £20 in referral bonuses - so £116 worth.
They charge £3 a meg for data when roaming so almost 36 meg of roaming for six quid (if you use the paypal money to buy credit).
It is a fiver to register for quidco, so the 30 coming back is only really 25, but they only charge you the fiver once you have earned it (and it will get you more that that discount on your next contract too).
None of the links here are referrals that i will get commission on.
However, if you want to get an additional fiver for the first sim you get, you can use my number and each of us will get a fiver (as referrer and referred).
My number is 079624 70969 (which i am only using for data when on holiday in summer).
When you select the bit that says you were referred by a friend - it will not credit you with the referral until a few days later - so dont worry when it does not appear as a credit to you at once.
If you do use the sims for calls they are only really good if you are calling others with the same sim - as it is 3p a min then - and 1p for a text. Xnetwork calls are 15p/min so nothing special.

Good offer if you want to use the data in the UK but while roaming they charge £10p/mb
Mobile Internet Charges whilst roaming
Connecting to the Mobile Internet via:
GPRS will cost just £10 to send/receive 1 Megabyte of Data whilst Roaming.
Dial Up (CSD) will cost the same a Voice call when Roaming.
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wizardragon said:
the sim will work in LOCKED UK T-Mobile phones, and obviously any unlocked ones too. (Easymobile piggybacks on T-mobile).
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True easymobile does piggy back on t-mobile but the sim will not work on a locked t-mobile handset (or any other locked handset for that matter). You will have to use the sim on an unlocked handset. (I had to do this a while back)

s4vva said:
wizardragon said:
the sim will work in LOCKED UK T-Mobile phones, and obviously any unlocked ones too. (Easymobile piggybacks on T-mobile).
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True easymobile does piggy back on t-mobile but the sim will not work on a locked t-mobile handset (or any other locked handset for that matter). You will have to use the sim on an unlocked handset. (I had to do this a while back)
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If it does use t-mob's network, and you have an older locked t-mob handset, it will work as the handset cannot tell the difference between 234-04 or whatever t-mob is and the easymobile identifier. The phone will display t-mobile as the operator logo. Newer phones will have the updated list and may not recognise the sim as t-mobile so will need unlocking.
Same thing happend when virign launched. Some older one2one handsets worked fine, others needed unlocking.
Richard

Sorry - I presumed all would work as I put the sim in an old philips savvy from one-2-one (before they were T-mobile) and it worked fine. It also works in my wizard - but it is unlocked from T-mobile so I could not tell.
I had spoken to their customer services on the net to check the 3 quid per meg thing - and they are still saying it is the same for roaming as for here.
Also - the guy I spoke to did not know - but he asked his supervisor. I have a bundle of the free Virgin sims they gave out recently that I can use for roaming - each came with a fiver free and they charge a fiver per meg - but it will be a pain changing every meg. Although in saying that even if it is a tenner a meg, you are still getting a good amount of roaming data for six quid.

Thanks for the tip, wizardragon.
I have an orange pay as you go sim card and for £1 you get a days unlimited browsing (gives no mb limit), so if i am on a journey i use that

I have an Orange PAYG for that too - its just a pity the never offered it with their contracts which I also have (a sim with two lines which I cannot get to access the second line with the wizard).
Its just a pity the midnight to midnight access for a pound does not also cover 3G.
Tmobile themselves are now getting quite good with unlimited net access for about xeven quid - but you are banned from VOIP and using it as a modem, although they are meant to be introducing a package that covers this from a few days ago - although I have not yet checked this.

fluffcat1 said:
s4vva said:
wizardragon said:
the sim will work in LOCKED UK T-Mobile phones, and obviously any unlocked ones too. (Easymobile piggybacks on T-mobile).
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True easymobile does piggy back on t-mobile but the sim will not work on a locked t-mobile handset (or any other locked handset for that matter). You will have to use the sim on an unlocked handset. (I had to do this a while back)
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If it does use t-mob's network, and you have an older locked t-mob handset, it will work as the handset cannot tell the difference between 234-04 or whatever t-mob is and the easymobile identifier. The phone will display t-mobile as the operator logo. Newer phones will have the updated list and may not recognise the sim as t-mobile so will need unlocking.
Same thing happend when virign launched. Some older one2one handsets worked fine, others needed unlocking.
Richard
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It looks like all Tmobile phones will work - here is what it says...
Is my handset compatible?
All GSM phones purchased recently will operate on the easyMobile.com network. If you have purchased your phone with any other UK GSM network, you may need to contact your previous Mobile Service Provider to request an unlock code, to allow you to use it with your new easyMobile.com SIM Card. If you have previously used a T-Mobile UK SIM in your phone, it is as simple as removing your old SIM Card & placing your new easyMobile.com SIM Card into the handset. Most 3G handsets are compatible with the easyMobile.com service, however we cannot guarantee this.
We would recommend that you find out if your handset is locked before you join easyMobile.com. The information below should help you to find out if your handset is locked to a Mobile Service Provider, & how you can get it unlocked.
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From....
https://www.easymobile.com/selfcare/emcontent/cust_services/customer_intro.html#38

well you should have an extra fiver from me anyway.
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also have you noticed the section in the t&cs that says to enable roaming you need to enable auto-topup to automatically top your credit up when it gets to less than £2

Thanks
Yes - I saw that - I also saw they charge you a tenner if your credit falls below zero and 75p a month if you dont reach a fiver of use in a three month period - but apart from that all seemed well.

tmob web n walk flext is best for me
for £28pm i get unlimited data, and £90 credit for xnet calls, texts+mms 8)

That was the one they started at the start of april - but you cannot use the data through a modem or for VOIP, but for about an extra seven quid i think they almost doubled the allowances - but there was no point in getting ot if you would not use it.
There was meant to be a new one on the first of may that covered VIOP and modem/laptop use, but i have not looked to see what it is.
Incidentally - easymobile have extended that offer to the seventh - but quidco have dropped the commission to eight quid

dmonik said:
tmob web n walk flext is best for me
for £28pm i get unlimited data, and £90 credit for xnet calls, texts+mms 8)
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:roll: ... hmm, only comparing prices ... Here in Finland I pay
- 10€ a month for unlimited EDGE data
- 1€ a day for unlimited GSM calls from homearea

Do you know if it is possible to access the Finnish network from Tallinn across the bay of Sankt Peterburg or vice versa?

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Do you know if it is possible to access the Finnish network from Tallinn across the bay of Sankt Peterburg or vice versa?
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I don't think so.

Thanks - its a pity - I am likely to be there in summer and I dont think there is an estonian equivalent.

Just checked the easymobile site (unfortunately as their CS have been crap at giving me the setting for my Wizard in a format i can get them to go in)
The offer is now at 30 quid free if you register with three quid - and we both get an extra fiver if you use my number as a referral.
07962470955 or 079624 70969 shown above in the first post.
Its just a pity about the CS - but you can drop them after your credit runs out and I think they are only 20p per min and not rounded up to a minute for incoming when roaming (in europe)!

Looking for advice on pay as u go sim card in uk

I am going to the UK for vacation. Can anybody advice me on the best "pay as u go solution" which has the cheapest data service? It is mainly for using the internet and receiving calls.

tmobile - 1 quid a day max for internet usage... (less if you use less).

Thanx a mil

Prepaid data plans in Canada

I will be travelling to Manitoba Canada for a couple of months this summer and I am looking for a prepaid data plan. I have searched the web but did not come up with anything so far. Since I have noticed a few Canadians on this forum I would appreciate if somebody would give me some suggestions.
Thanks

tedkopp said:
I will be travelling to Manitoba Canada for a couple of months this summer and I am looking for a prepaid data plan. I have searched the web but did not come up with anything so far. Since I have noticed a few Canadians on this forum I would appreciate if somebody would give me some suggestions.
Thanks
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My suggestion is travel to a different country, or avoid using data in Canada.
I'm not aware of any prepaid data plans that Fido or Rogers offers.
These are the only two GSM providers in Canada that will work with an unlocked GSM phone (They're actually the same company).
www.Rogers.com (They do Cable TV, etc, so select they're mobile wireless)
www.Fido.ca
Safe Travels!

tedkopp said:
I will be travelling to Manitoba Canada for a couple of months this summer and I am looking for a prepaid data plan. I have searched the web but did not come up with anything so far. Since I have noticed a few Canadians on this forum I would appreciate if somebody would give me some suggestions.
Thanks
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Actually, since you'll only be staying with us for a couple of months, it might be better to check with your local provider and see if they have any 'international roaming' plans. If I understand the way things work correctly, ROGERS/FIDO will simply pass on any roaming charges to your home provider, who will then charge you...
Unfortunately, I don't believe there is any way in Canada to get a 'pay as you go' SIM card including data that's anywhere near reasonable rates.

Thanks guys for your help.
I do have a prepaid sim with Rogers but I cannot figure out what they would charge for data. Their customers service is unbelivably bad.
I did check with Swisscom and the best deal I could find so far is 125 sfr or approx. 100 cad$ for 200 MB/month.
If anybody has more suggestions please let me know.
Thanks again.

Rogers data rate for pay per use is CAD$ 0.05/KB
You can get roughly 2Mb for your CAD$ 100.
Welcome to our nightmare...
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/w...t10=paygo_rates&setLanguage=en&setProvince=MB

stepw said:
Rogers data rate for pay per use is CAD$ 0.05/KB
You can get roughly 2Mb for your CAD$ 100.
Welcome to our nightmare...
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/w...t10=paygo_rates&setLanguage=en&setProvince=MB
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Wow, Swisscom would charge me 100 times less in Canada than what Rogers would. And they go through Rogers!!
You guys should sign up with Swisscom !! http://www.swisscom-mobile.ch/scm/kd_datentarif-en.aspx
When I travel in Italy I can get 1GB with Tim for approx. 30 Cad$ !!!
Sorry I don't mean to make you guys feel bad but I always thought that North America was the leading edge on technology.
I was living in Canada when cellphone started to come out at an affordable price and in Europe they were still a luxury item. Now it seems it's the other way around.

hmm, this is indeed interesting to me too.
I'll be travelling to ontario for a short time, probably more often somewhat soon.
The data is not too big a deal, I plan to go pretty much only to places with wifi, and otherwise, AT&T gives me USD$0.015/KB data - cheap enough for a quick check of something.
However, having something with which I can call for relatively cheap would be great...
With any prepaid (I am not going in often enough to use a monthly plan) plan, can rogers beat that data rate or USD$0.79/minute phone calls? The website is hideously annoying to use... I thought I too might ask a canadian.

Hmm, did some research on Fido:
1. It never makes sense to use their data unless you use A LOT of data (a lot being a lot for a day when you're cutting back, not a lot for a month or so).
2. It always makes sense to get their prepaid service for voice - compare either CAD$0.50/minute or [CAD$0.60/minute with CAD$0.30/minute nights + weekends + CAD$1/day] with USD$0.79/minute.
Good thing I have a simunlocked kaiser lying around with nothing much to do

In my country, Indonesia, is extremely cheap, just $ 0.0001/Kb data

bmw2320 said:
In my country, Indonesia, is extremely cheap, just $ 0.0001/Kb data
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Canada phone companies are all bloody ripoffs, I hate it

stepw said:
Rogers data rate for pay per use is CAD$ 0.05/KB
You can get roughly 2Mb for your CAD$ 100.
Welcome to our nightmare...
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/w...t10=paygo_rates&setLanguage=en&setProvince=MB
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I have a friend who has to travel to Canada frequently for work (from the US). He has a work blackberry on ATT, and he just got a $3000 bill for data usage during a 3 day trip. I think he said it was $15/MB.

Hi. Sorry to dig this topic, but my question is very similar and I don't know if I could create a new thread with the same subject.
I'm from Brazil but I usually travel to Toronto once a year, so I'm used to buy Prepaid SIM Cards to use in my cellphone, but this time will be the first time I will go with a 3G Smartphone (French LG Optimus 7 - WP7). So my doubt is all about prepaid data plans
I was browsing Fido website and I saw the "Unlimited Mobile Browsing" for 10 bucks a month, but isn't clear for me if this pack is unlimited only when I am using the cellphone's web browser or if it's valid for Apps, Mail, Push, Bing Maps et al. too.
Someone more familiar with the Canadian providers could help me with this issue?
PS.: I need a prepaid plan because I will stay for a month only.
Thanks

I need something similar as well, I'm actually Canadian, but a friend is going to be here for a couple of weeks, and was asking... any help would be nice

I would also be interested on Canadian prepaid data plans.
There is a mention of prepaid 500MB data plan on Rogers website:
http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/plans
But I can not find any info on how much does it cost .

Yeah, plans tend to suck in Canada. You can get pretty cheap ones from Mobilicity/Wind Mobile, with "unlimited" data (5GB, after that they may or may not throttle your speeds). Not sure how their prepaid works though.
I just bought a Bell prepaid tablet plan a few days ago for my Nexus S, seemed like the best I could get from the big three, Bell/Telus/Rogers. No voice in the plan, but I just use Google Voice for that anyway. It's $15 for 250MB, $20 for 500MB, or $35 for 5GB.
EDIT: Plus $5 charge for the SIM card.

Bell plan sounds reasonable. I guess I will have to cancel after 30 days in order not to be charged again. Is it freely available for walk-in customers for overseas?
Any other suggestions, which would include voice, would also be much appreciated.

Right, you just cancel before 30 days end.
Mobilicity/Wind/Videotron are probably the best you can get in terms of price. As an alternative to the Bell one but with voice, you might be able to go with something like Koodo, which has fairly cheap voice plans (starting at $15), and the data kinda scales ($10 for 100MB, $15 for 200, $20 for 300, $25 for 500, $30 for a GB). That's not pre-paid though, just no contract.
Not really sure how it works for walk-in customers / non-residents. I believe the first three I mentioned have prepaid you can just buy, not entirely sure though. Bell did make me sign up as a customer even though it's prepaid, but that might be because I wanted it activated in-store. Maybe find a Canadian friend to sign up for you and then cancel soon after?

AerialX said:
Yeah, plans tend to suck in Canada. You can get pretty cheap ones from Mobilicity/Wind Mobile, with "unlimited" data (5GB, after that they may or may not throttle your speeds). Not sure how their prepaid works though.
I just bought a Bell prepaid tablet plan a few days ago for my Nexus S, seemed like the best I could get from the big three, Bell/Telus/Rogers. No voice in the plan, but I just use Google Voice for that anyway. It's $15 for 250MB, $20 for 500MB, or $35 for 5GB.
EDIT: Plus $5 charge for the SIM card.
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This sounds sweet. Some help if you would though please:
They mention a $35 activation fee on sim card packages (which cost more- $10 at kiosks). Did you get around that?
Did you activate sim online, by phone, in person? Any tips on IMEI to use?
Thanks!

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This sounds sweet. Some help if you would though please:
They mention a $35 activation fee on sim card packages (which cost more- $10 at kiosks). Did you get around that?
Did you activate sim online, by phone, in person? Any tips on IMEI to use?
Thanks!
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Nevermind, all sorted!
Phone rep activated without IMEI, and no activation fee because it's prepaid.
I'm now running a Bell Atrix on the Bell tablet ($35/5gb) plan. Since it's a Bell phone to begin with, I think things were a little more seamless. No need to manually enter APN's or anything like that.
Once again, the website to top up / check balance is mobile.mselfserve.ca/tablet/login.htm -- NOT the one on the self serve app (which is where the phone rep sent me incidentally). It was quite obviously the wrong page because there was no $35 top up choice and no mention of tablets.
Thanks, people in the thread, for your tips.

[Q] Best pay-as-you-go data plan?

I have a Blackberry supplied by my employer. I can't use it for personal e-mail and Web content is very limited. I'd like to get a smart phone for personal use but wouldn't use it enough to warrant a full plan under my wireless carrier (AT&T). Does anyone have any pay-as-you-go or cheap data-only plan and carrier suggestions? My MB usage would be low as it's really just for e-mail and a small amount of Web use. I'm located in Florida.

i wud say THREE 3 , there best for price plans , but signal isnt all that well . its certain areas .
i pay 15 pound a month and get 600 mins, 3000 texts, 1gb internet . i dont use 600 mins so i wanna go down to £10 a month 300 mins 3000 texts 1gb internet .
hope this helped
just seen ur in florida . sorry , any1 else this may help

three do a good deal for 15.00 a month like the other poster states , but it now offers unlimited internet (yep truely unlimited) same minutes and texts etc, good deal , plus if you buy through say quidco or topcashback websites , you will get a nice rebate also

Virgin Mobile may be your best bet. $25 for unlimited text, data, email etc. and 300 minutes.
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-plans.jsp

three in uk is best for data plan..
I have the £15 month all you can eat (its not unlimited as most think see the terms and conditions) 80gig data a month yep 80 gig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have the normal pay and go topup monthly (not rolling contract) which is 300 mins 3000 texts and 80gig a month the rolling contract is 600 mins and 6000 texts and 80gig a month data.. its £15 no matter which plan you go for..., so pick best for you.
signal is not always the best but data speed is best every had. And does tend to work most every where I go(inc most mountain areas but not all but this is same across the networks)....
word of warning they will soon be stopping the all you can eat sim!!!(friend works for them and told me after I bought it) so get it whilst you can...

Sometimes I wish I was in the UK but I am in the States (Florida). Virgin seems to be the best bet for now. I will go by a local AT&T store to see if they will offer me an unadvertised deal, though. Thanks!

Florida resident here, I'm with tmobile, have 5 phones and a broadband stick. Pay about $200 a month, data, unlimited voice and text on even more plus plan. I'm decently happy with the service. For me, I work at a car dealership, and tmobile gives me a discount for being a "Kia" employee although I technically work for many different dealerships.

Straight Talk I think would be a good choice for you. They have a nice $30/month plan that would work well for you. Check out the Howard Forums Straight Talk threads for info on how to use one of their sim cards in a phone of your choice.
AT&T just took away my unlimited data plan since I upgraded to a Nexus One... I will likely be switching to Straight Talk at the end of the month.
Edit: I forgot to mention that they use AT&T's towers!

If all of this is true Straight Talk may just take over the market I know once get my hands the right equipment they might just win me over!!
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Straight Talk I think would be a good choice for you. They have a nice $30/month plan that would work well for you. Check out the Howard Forums Straight Talk threads for info on how to use one of their sim cards in a phone of your choice.
AT&T just took away my unlimited data plan since I upgraded to a Nexus One... I will likely be switching to Straight Talk at the end of the month.
Edit: I forgot to mention that they use AT&T's towers!
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Do you by chance have a link for this I've searched and haven't found it? Thank you in advance
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Ack, sorry I took forever to reply.
Here is the link to the threads: http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/551-Straight-Talk

French operators?

Hi to all French users here!
Can you help me with choosing operator while I'll be there in July?
I'll have my phone so all I need is to buy prepaid SIM.
Please, suggest me an (cheaper) operator which can give me bigger data pack or, better, flat mobile internet - while prize is not big problem, I still wouldn't like to pay 15-20€ for a month of mobile surf.
Also, where can I buy prepaid SIM-s and do i have to give any documents (passport, for identification).
I found a guide on one blog suggesting to buy a phone with SIM for 39€ but that's a bit too much for me - all I want is, just like everyone including tourists here in Croatia, to buy prepaid SIM+internet plan.
Thanks

My advice for you is to choose SFR (which I use) and the prepaid card is not too expensive, 30 € with a cell phone (not a smartphone)

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My advice for you is to choose SFR (which I use) and the prepaid card is not too expensive, 30 € with a cell phone (not a smartphone)
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Thanks. But is it possible to buy only SIM?
And, can you help me with choosing internet plan? Do they have flat, or some big (1GB or more) plan?

Thank very much . i very need