Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i noticed here [1] that in india roaming costs on pre-paid sims are a > twentieth the cost in europe and about a fiftieth the cost of european > roaming, so i guess convenience and coverage probably trumps cost for > any solution i'd like.
Right. :) So far my Airtel prepaid has failed in Ladakh (no prepaid phone will work there, due to security concerns -- but it did work in Srinagar and Kargil sometime back) and places with no signal. I've heard them ringing in places where the only things visible were snow and other frozen people. Ok, it's worked in some major cities also. When I lost phones (twice), they issued and reactivated new SIM cards with little hassle (postpaid with erstwhile Hutch was a royal PITA), so guess I should be a little loyal too. But then I'm a rather successful antisocial, so phone is no big deal.. except that I could never use phone as GPRS modem.
