I'd like to know as well. A couple of related things to test out: 1. You should be able to put a normal mobile phone SIM into the USB stick with a data-plan. 2. Vodafone are abolishing roaming charges in June 3. AFAIK (I've asked the Vodaphone tech department, but not tested) - there is no real speed difference between using a bluetooth-3G-mobile phone set up and a 3G USB stick?
2009/5/26 Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> > I'm abusing the list to contact some of our French correspondents. > Apologies to everyone else... and apologies to French speakers for my > appalling Franglaise. > > I'm wondering whether it's possible to get hold of 3G data stick - or the > SIM to go into one - for use in France, on a "pay-as-you-go" basis, rather > than a long term contract. In the UK, these 3G USB data modems, initially > only available on quite long contracts with substantial monthly > subscription, then became available under pay-as-you-go for about £100 (then > about €130) and have since been dropping repeatedly so that you can now get > one for about €25. > > Theoretically the ones I have should work in France, but paying a very high > premium over the domestica data rate - in practise I've never been able to > make them work at all. So I'm wondering about the possibility of getting a > French one to use while I'm in France - but I'm there often enough/long > enough to justify doing so on a contract. > > I know that the mobile/cellular telephony market works very differently in > different countries; are pay-as-you SIM cards (with 3G data access) or modem > sticks available? And are they truly pay-as-you-go, or (as seems to be the > case in the US) somewhat lightweight contracts, where you have to top up by > a minimum amount every few months otherwise it stops working altogether? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
