Be aware that data is very expensive in Europe. Foreigners have trouble buying a SIM in Europe. I got a local friend to buy me an Orange SIM in France. I added €40 and it had gone by the morning. !!
The big difference is that data is charged by time and a flag fall applies. The iPhone does various checks frequently and each time the flag fall chewed up my €40 overnight. Eeek I ended up turning on airport mode and relying on hostel wifi. Some cities, such as Geneva, have free city wide wifi. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 27/04/2012, at 1:12 PM, Jane Griffiths <jjgr...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Hugh > > I used my iPad on a visit to the UK last year. I called in at an O2 store > (their equivalent of Telstra) and purchased a "pay as you go" data sim for > the iPad. The sim was activated via the iPad with no connection to computer > required. The staff at the store were very helpful and the process was > simple. The O2 account was wholly managed via the iPad. > O2 coverage was excellent throughout the UK. > > Unfortunately I don't have any experience of iPad data sim usage in other > parts of Europe. > > Cheers > Jane > > > > On 27/04/2012, at 7:46 AM, hugh griffiths <hgr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi my parents are traveling in Europe and my mum has taken her ipad with >> her, she purchased a local sim but has been told she cant activate it >> without connection to a computer and itunes, I thought it was possible >> to do this manually, but a quick search using google doesn't shed enough >> light on it for me to advise them, as I don't want to steer them the >> wrong way and for them to purchase another sim that doesn't work. They >> will be mainly in the UK and then Spain, then France and finally Italy ( >> but they wont need a sim in italy, I don't think, as they are staying with >> friends who are sure to have wifi). Does anyone have experience with >> setting up ipad2 with latest OS and new sim purchased in UK and or Spain >> and or France? >> >> Best Regards Hugh >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
