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Data Roaming
Hello dudes!
Im from brazil, and im going to Europe in september. First country to visit will be Spain, then i will go to france, italy, germany, france again, england and finally holland. I really need to use DATA (3G or Edge), so i need one sim card with cheap roaming taxes So, my question is: How can i buy a "pay as you go" sim card to use in Europe? I need to buy it before i travel to Europe, so delivery to brazil is necessary. Btw, i know that probably vodafone italy and T-mobile are the best in prices, but i need to know if they delivery it to brazil. Thanks! |
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How much data do you expect to use?
As all the countries you want to visit are included in Vodafone-roaming-packages the three most obvious offers to look into would be: - Vodafone Italy: €2,50/day for 50MB, €1/MB afterwards (LINK) - Vodafone Ireland: €2,99/day for 50MB, not sure how much afterwads (LINK) - Blau Germany: €4,99/week for 50MB, can be bought as frequently as you like (LINK) With the Vodafone offers your main problem is when you use up the 50MB. Then you get charged the normal rip-off rates ! With Blau you don't have this problem, but the package is a bit more expensive, but it's valid for a whole week. So you need to think about what amounts of data you are planning to use. If you get problems with the shipping to Brazil, let me know. We're here to help each other after all :) |
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If you combine this with the Meteor Ireland free voice roaming these two Irish SIMs will let you roam Europe with minimum roaming costs. Hard to beat these Irish offers. |
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The 99c rateis for a voice/ SIM that allows up to 50MBdata per day.The 2.99 rate is for a data only SIM intended for dongles. ttp://www.vodafone.ie/offers/free-data-roaming/ I am using the 99c rate travelling in Europe at the moment-it works fine. You can also get a €20 for 30 days rate - advantage plus. |
was just traveling in the UK, Sweden, Norway, and Italy,
for the UK, I like to use an Orange sim card, go for the Camel plan for cheap calls back to the US (or wherever), and you can buy 'extras' for GBP 5 that last a month, eg, 100 mins in the UK, 250 MB in the UK, 30 mins in Western Europe, 4 MB roaming in Europe. not the cheapest outside the UK, but a one-sim card solution. I also use an Abroadband data only sim in a We3G mifi wifi gadget, 59 Euro cent a MB, works almost anywhere there is 3G. happy travels! |
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How much does Mobile Internet while abroad cost? I think I let a SIM lapse - maybe I'll see if they can reactivate |
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The free European data roaming appears to have been a spur-of-the-moment response by Vodafone Ireland to Meteor's free voice roaming. There is a price war going on in Ireland at the moment. The Meteor offer came just before the Summer holiday season, and huge numbers of customers have been defecting from market leader Vodafone to challenger Meteor in order to get the free voice roaming. Vodafone reacted quickly but appear not to have fully updated all sections of their website. The economics of the offer seem dubious as someone using the full 50MB per day could cost Vodafone Ireland €750 in regulated European rates while they would only receive €20 revenue. I dont see how they can keep this ip, but the offer is terrific while it lasts. |
You assume Vodafone are always paying those € 0.50/MB set by the EU to foreign operators, but this is just a price cap not a fixed price, so operators can still agree lower wholesale prices. Even if they didn't have such agreements Vodafone could limit their customers' roaming ability to their own (or partners') networks like they've recently done for German postpaid customers who subsribe to the "ReiseFlat Data" option, which extends validity for any national data option to 22 countries at the disadvantage of being admitted to only one partner network per country.
Actually I expect such tariffs where roaming is limited to certain partner networks to become standard in the mid-term, at least if you head for the lowest roaming rates. Multinational carriers like Vodafone, T-Mobile and Telefonica will start this race as they can let customers roam in their own networks at almost zero costs and alliances of smaller carriers (like the one between KPN, 3 and Play) will join this race sooner or later, too. |
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The differential between the Wholesale cost of 50MB and the 99c daily rate is such that it is hard to see this deal being economical for Vodafone in the medium term. I would say that they will revert to offering special deals if you stay on Vodafone partner networks only. The Vodafone Ireland deal is particularly interesting because there are no restrictions on which European operators you can roam on. You can switch to any operator who has a roaming agreement with Vodafone Ireland. I think that the deal is just a panic reaction to the Meteor Voice roaming offer, and that they have overlooked the risk that Millions of Europeans might exploit it to get free Data roaming across Europe. |
I agree, Vodafone won't make a fortune at € 0.99 for 50MB and this offer is surely driven by competitive pressure. But even today Vodafone can direct their customers into their own networks through the preferred network list (so-called "PLMNsel") stored on their SIM cards (which can also be updated over the air), so upon arrival in another country the majority of customers will wind up on a Vodafone network. Of course some customers will switch to other networks once their phones get outside Vodafone's coverage and so may generate losses, but in the end this is surely cheaper than an exploding customer-churn rate in favour of Meteor.
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How is Switzerland treated in these dealls? Part of Euro roaming or not?
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK (Clearly Ireland is also included by default, as you won't need to roam there) Data costs the same as in Ireland if you are in Ireland or roaming in any of these countries (0.99c per day for up to 50MB). |
Thanks my question was focused on the EU partner states (e.g. those who were not members of the EU, but who had special relations, e.g. Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, etc.).
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