Simyo Spain €5/month data (upto 500MB)

[inquisitor]

Originally Posted by pete_l

[*]Here's the killer. The data link is GPRS only. Not 3G: just modem speeds of 3 or 4 kByte/second. Simyo never tell you this and it's not at all obvious from the stuff they send you. One small giveaway is that you have to set the APN to gprs-service.com

Since I'm in need of Spanish SIM for a 3-weeks-stay in Gran Canaria, I checked several Spanish websites (e.g. Simyo lanza su tarifa plana de internet) including simyo's, where it clearly states, that bandwidth amounts to 3.6 MBit/s. Also the coverage map of simyo explicitly shows 3G coverage.
The APN "gprs-service.com" also applies for simyo's postpaid data plan (€ 24.99/month sin impuestos), which definitley provides HSDPA-speed.
Did you guys just happen to be outside of 3G coverage or was the serving cell just congested?