Worldwide Coverage

sja360 · 16 Jan 2009 at 16:38

I'm currently wondering how i could go about having i suppose a mobile broadband package (such as 3) and use it in USA/EU/Africa or hopefully most countries. I know the 3 network is in most countries but i cant really find much regarding if data allowance (i.e. that 1-3GB) is included throughout all 3 networks regardless of country or whether its UK only...

Its only for using msn and emails when im away to sea but in port, so i cant even comment on where im going to work out charges/coverage.

Any recommendations? ideally it needs to cost less than £10-15 per month as i believe i could get onboard email for $20 from the last time i went to see.

Regards,
Stephen

HarryPainful · 16 Jan 2009 at 16:41

It will be UK only.

You would need data roaming on your account to use it in another country as you would be connecting to a different provider when you are out of the UK.

sja360 · 16 Jan 2009 at 18:12

hmm so is that a no to 3 being kinda cheapish?

dave-lew99 · 16 Jan 2009 at 18:23

Best bet is to give them a ring,

Any international data charge is going to be expensive though - what a colleague of mine did was to purchase a PAYG simcard locally in whatever port/country he was in at the time.

International data is likely to be charged per megabyte, depending how much you use it, it may work out ok for you.

sja360 · 16 Jan 2009 at 19:06

hmm looking at the costs £3.00/MB its not sounding cheap, i think i may just have to work out another method, reason i mentioned like a USB dongle is that i wont always get to go ashore due maybe only being in port for 4-5 hours... so they wont give the crew a shore pass perhaps. So i thought that if i have the dongle i could go out on deck and use the web from there for a good 30 mins. but at the price it would cost me

i dunno.