Blackberry Roaming SIM

[Stu]

This SIM is not a particularly good deal, but it provides Blackberry prepaid roaming in a number of countries:

http://www.valuesphere.com/intouchsmartcards/gprs.html

Blackberry needs certain ports opened and forwarded to RIM's data center so most prepaid data SIMs don't work. I'm just passing it on because everyone knows a Blackberry junkie.

[catwoman66]

Originally Posted by Stu

This SIM is not a particularly good deal, but it provides Blackberry prepaid roaming in a number of countries:

http://www.valuesphere.com/intouchsmartcards/gprs.html

Blackberry needs certain ports opened and forwarded to RIM's data center so most prepaid data SIMs don't work. I'm just passing it on because everyone knows a Blackberry junkie.

uhm it's still cheaper to use a wind prepaid sim than this, pity I thought I'd found gold

[Stu]

Is Wind's prepaid SIM Blackberry friendly?

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Stu

Is Wind's prepaid SIM Blackberry friendly?

what means Blackberry friendly?
Isnt a full open internet access enough for blackberries?

Chris

[catwoman66]

Originally Posted by Stu

Is Wind's prepaid SIM Blackberry friendly?

All I know is that for the last few months they have a payg monthly plan, and just recently the lowest rates for roaming in Europe and the states, whether they have good reception I don't know, but seeing as I have 2 berries I'm thinking of getting their sim, plus the fact the first 3 months are free, it's worth a go, if I don't like it I'll just cancel my account, I still have Vodafone payg..

[Stu]

No. Blackberry requires special ports open back to Blackberry. For corporate users, you will then have a Blackberry server linked to RIMs server in Canada via a encrypted connection. This is called a BES or Blackberry Enterprise Server connection.

For most individual, you will have a Blackberry Individual Server connection which is basically a personal account on RIM's server programmed to pull your e-mail. You could also have a Blackberry Desktop program running on your machine back home which pushes the e-mail out to you.

Technically a straight data connection cannot handle Blackberry. When Etisilat first offered data service plans, you could connect to Blackberry on a non-Blackberry plan because they left some settings wide open. Maybe Wind is doing the same thing. I don't know.

The reason I plugged this not great Blackberry deal was because most data packages don't handle Blackberry. I don't have a Blackberry (I have Symbian and Windows Mobile devices) so I don't have personal knowledge on this.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Stu

No. Blackberry requires special ports open back to Blackberry. For corporate users, you will then have a Blackberry server linked to RIMs server in Canada via a encrypted connection. This is called a BES or Blackberry Enterprise Server connection.

For most individual, you will have a Blackberry Individual Server connection which is basically a personal account on RIM's server programmed to pull your e-mail. You could also have a Blackberry Desktop program running on your machine back home which pushes the e-mail out to you.

Technically a straight data connection cannot handle Blackberry. When Etisilat first offered data service plans, you could connect to Blackberry on a non-Blackberry plan because they left some settings wide open. Maybe Wind is doing the same thing. I don't know.

The reason I plugged this not great Blackberry deal was because most data packages don't handle Blackberry. I don't have a Blackberry (I have Symbian and Windows Mobile devices) so I don't have personal knowledge on this.

All cards that i have here have no port restrictions at all.
Neiter wind nor our german cards.
In other countries it seems to be more common that they cripple the internet access by proxys or firewalls. But on Wind definetely not. They even assign public IP adresses that you can connect from outside.

Chris

[Stu]

Blackberry is different from most connections and that is what I am not making clear. There has to be a special setup on the cell provider's side. A few providers leave this setup open to all data providers, but it is generally through error or omission, not intentionally. There are a number of posts over on Ho Fo where people are struggling to find ways to use a Blackberry without having a Blackberry plan. Most of these individuals resort to the Google Mail client for Blackberry.