[OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

[Paul Weaver]

Just fyi, EU Data prices on my O2 phone dropped between may and July from £2.55+ vat per meg to £0.58+vat. £100 cap and 300MB max. 

Outside Europe it's still £6/mb. I tore through £50 between the airport and hotel in Delhi last week while checking the taxi driver was taking me the right way! 

Capped at £102.13 (??) but for 200MB. 

On 20 Aug 2012, at 22:47, "Toby Wintermute" <tjc at wintrmute.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I'm making a whirlwind visit to London and bits of Europe soon,
> although with awfully poor timing, just missing YAPC:EU :(
> Hopefully I'll manage to run into a few of you while I'm in London though.
> 
> The last time I visited, I picked up an Orange SIM that had "Unlimited
> data" on the plan.. only to discover they meant "unlimited, but at
> <5kb/sec".
> 
> So this time around I thought I should get some local knowledge. Can
> you suggest a mobile carrier who has:
> * 3G support for prepaid SIMs
> * Has reasonably priced data plans
> * For bonus points -- will work while roaming in Germany. Although I
> suspect I'll just have to buy yet another SIM over there..
> 
> Alternatively.. I'd be happy to just get a data-only SIM and use Skype
> or similar the whole time.
> I hope this isn't too off-topic!
> 
> Thanks,
> Toby
> 
> -- 
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