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Dear All

I live in middle east , i travel a lot to europe and sometimes USA

i would love to have prepaid line with internet

any suggestion ?

regards,

Every country combination is different. For what you are describing, I think I would look at an Ekit SIM which has free incoming (on a UK mobile number) in Western Europe and the US, but it doesn't have great data rates. Right now, prepaid data roaming SIMs are significantly more expensive than local SIMs. The two data offerings that come to mind are aBroadband and the MaxRoam data SIM.

Abroadband seems to have the cheapest data, by far.(less than $1/mb) Truphone has $2.17/mb data rates in the places you will go and also has voice rates that are "reasonable", but some others would have cheaper voice rates in some countries. (Seems to be 21cents incoming in most EU countries and 51 cents outgoing within that same country. Calling outside where you are costs more and varies.
...mike

amazing ! i'm wondering if i can use it as a phone also i mean i can get a number ?

no, it is a data only card.

Chris

thanks all i think ill keep this SIM for my ipad while roaming , any suggestion for europe? making call/received txting ?

regards,

depends a bit where you call most and in which country you visit most of the time.

thanks to the EU we have regulated roaming tariffs, which mean that calls inside the EU will cost you not more than 45ct/min, receiving calls not more than 17ct/min, sms 13ct. But if you call outside the EU the rates are mostly crazy. These rates apply for any SIM card you buy from a EU operator.

You might want to look at the international roaming section of this website as well to compare other solutions:
PrePaidGSM.net: International GSM Operators

i think i should have european sim for europe right ? what is best prepaid sim for europe ? i'm using UK Vodafone but its expensive

thanks in advance,

As is said, the standard tariffs are not different. if you use a Vodafone UK card anywhere in EU it will cost the same then with any other EU SIM card.

Abroadband doesn't support blackberry :down: might be a good choose for Ipad not blackberry , looking for blackberry in europe any?

thank you , but vodafone to make international call from UK to Kuwait way expensive then Lebara

thats why i wrote _within_ EU. If you call to a country outside the EU it is mostly very expensive.

You can use a BBerry anywhere. You just wouldn't have the BB features via Abroadband. HOWEVER, many (most?) BB users in the world can add on a feature where you you get unlimited email anywhere you go (except a few 3rd woorld countries). Eg. TMobile US has that option that you activate when you travel - at 67 cents/day. You turn off the option upon your return. ATT has the same option for about $1/day.
I could still use a BB for other data activity (web, VOIP etc.) with Abroadband.

...mike

@spoow...!
I think abroadband service is the best because they give you internet while you traveling in just 0.59/MB also you can you this in blackberry, it support this.

abroadband does NOT support Blackberry (BIS, BES, etc. - http://www.abroadband.com/faq/ and search for 'blackberry').

Thank you tux for telling me the right thing..!
but i discuss this because a few month ago my friend have the same problem and he contact with the salesman and the salesman mentioned that the blackberries can be used as a broadband modem for an ordinary desktop computer.

I don't know very well Blackberry, but I know that some apps (like tethering) use standard APNs (in this case abroadband's one). This is what I read and learnt about BBs :)

Yah! I read about tethering. it is very useful to use mobile device as a modem and I hope after using this many people are solve their problem very easily.

thank you very much guys :))