European Roaming (France & Spain) and Mobile Internet (GPRS or 3G)

Scottland · 11 Apr 2006 at 09:47

Does anyone know of a product or tarrif that'll allow GPRS Internet or 3G internet use, cheap from the UK, France & Spain.

Or whats the cheapest method of doing this?

Thanks

Kappa · 11 Apr 2006 at 11:12

if you're gonna be using it a lot, then Vodafone do the 3G data card, on the data travel tariff you get 1gb of usage a month within the UK (and thats actually quite a lot i've found!) and 100mb abroad in vodafone preferred networks. £111 a month tho

Scottland · 11 Apr 2006 at 11:34

Kappa said:
if you're gonna be using it a lot, then Vodafone do the 3G data card, on the data travel tariff you get 1gb of usage a month within the UK (and thats actually quite a lot i've found!) and 100mb abroad in vodafone preferred networks. £111 a month tho

It's only for my parents, they're travelling accross France & Spain next month, and I was going to buy them a laptop - but not if thats how much it cost's to access the net!

GPRS would probably be fine, they wouldn't want to use it a lot, so the speed isn't too much of an importance.

Kappa · 11 Apr 2006 at 12:53

you get charged per megabyte so not really any difference if you go for 3g or GPRS, you can of course try a pay as you go sim in a 3g data card, however it works out something like £7 a megabyte. You're best off getting them to use Wi-Fi hotspots.

Scottland · 11 Apr 2006 at 12:56

Kappa said:
you get charged per megabyte so not really any difference if you go for 3g or GPRS, you can of course try a pay as you go sim in a 3g data card, however it works out something like £7 a megabyte. You're best off getting them to use Wi-Fi hotspots.

They're not really going to be anywhere near hotspots, they'll be out in the sticks a bit.