Hiya,
Be wary of point 2: Some phones will not allow you to tether (ie: use
as a modem) the phone to your Laptop (notably Blackberries).
Cheers,
Luis.
On 26 May 2009, at 13:12, David Bovill wrote:
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?
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