Travelling in Europe
 

Hi there,

My first time on the forum and instantly I have a question. I am using a tracker in my car and will travel around in Europe. To avoid roaming charges I wonder if a European SIM DATA card exist which can be used in the Western part of Europe ?

Many thanks for a reply.

Best regards
Rolly

For tracking devices our customers often use Base Belgium Prepaid-cards.
They charge 2.5 or 3.5 Euro per MB in most european networks, charged by 1k intervals.
BASE : freedom of speech - Roaming tariffs

list of networks with 2.5 and 3.5 euro per MB:
http://www.base.be/01/MyDocuments/da...tariffs_en.pdf


As trackers usually dont send a lot of data this works fine.
Cards like United-Mobile also offer data coverage but charge in 100k chunks -which can be very unfortunate when using tracking devices.

Chris

Would this be good for a traveller going across Europe using about 40 KB/hour 24/7?

The problem is that most of those "challengers" networks don't have good coverage so you could often find yourself with the coverage of other networks paying more.

Well 3.5 €/MB is way better than the roaming rates my home operator charges: 15.36 USD/MB!

we programmed a blacklist in our devices that only takes the advantage and challanger networks. The coverage using this is not bad at all and they use about 10€ a month for 24/7 truck tracking :)

I'm curious - about how little bandwidth are those 'trackers' using? I know when I try to get directions with Google Maps, a lot of data is used due to new map tiles loading up on every action.

no, these trackers _send_ the GPS positions to a internet server which processes and displays the data. E.g. for delivery trucks or other logistics services as well as for security reasons. One position update to the internet only takes a few bytes.