Prepaid data (3G/HSPA) in Slovenia

Effendi · 11-04-2011, 16:51

Prepaid data offers in Slovenia are really high and only available on Mobitel and SiMobil. It's strange since their postpaid offers are rather good, but the prepaid ones really not.

Italian coverage is rather limited since the border is quite mountaineous. Koper has no Italian coverage, while you can get some in Izola or Piran (which should have rather good Croatian signal too). The only town in Slovenia which has rather good coverage from Italian operators is Nova Gorica. Where in Slovenia are you going? Maybe you can get free wifi.

sakr · 12-04-2011, 12:39

You should not really rely on Italian coverage in Piran. Last year in June, during my short visit in this beautiful town, I was not able to log in to any Italian network, although the signal seemed to be quite strong. The reason for this might be too large distance (the limit for GSM is about 35km) or too much interference from Slovenian, Croatian and other Italian GSM base stations. There might be some spots well screened from other interfering signals where you could log in to Italian networks, however definetly this does not apply to the whole town.
It was slightly better with Croatian networks. As far as I remember as I was able to log in to at least one of them (either Vip or T-Mobile, I'm not sure now), however I also don't expect it to work very well everywhere. It was just fine next to the coast, nearby the charming old white church.

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Effendi (Offline) The great Dictator! Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,487 Join Date: 13 Jan 2004 Location: Trieste/Trst Country:	11-04-2011, 16:51 Prepaid data offers in Slovenia are really high and only available on Mobitel and SiMobil. It's strange since their postpaid offers are rather good, but the prepaid ones really not. Italian coverage is rather limited since the border is quite mountaineous. Koper has no Italian coverage, while you can get some in Izola or Piran (which should have rather good Croatian signal too). The only town in Slovenia which has rather good coverage from Italian operators is Nova Gorica. Where in Slovenia are you going? Maybe you can get free wifi. Working Prepaids: IT: Wind, Vodafone IT, UNO Mobile; SM: Prima; UK: 3, Virgin; INT: TravelSIM, Truphone. Deceased Prepaids: CZ: Oskar, Eurotel; SK: Orange; DE: E-Plus, Aldi, Simyo; GE: Geocell; AM: Armentel; PL: Heyah, Plus; LT: Tele2; LV: Amigo; EE: Elisa; UA: Kyivstar; NZ: Vodafone; INT: UM, UM+, ICQSim. GSM/3G Phones: Nokia Lumia 630 dual sim

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sakr (Offline) Member Official Member Posts: 45 Join Date: 02 Aug 2006 Location: Wroclaw Country:	12-04-2011, 12:39 You should not really rely on Italian coverage in Piran. Last year in June, during my short visit in this beautiful town, I was not able to log in to any Italian network, although the signal seemed to be quite strong. The reason for this might be too large distance (the limit for GSM is about 35km) or too much interference from Slovenian, Croatian and other Italian GSM base stations. There might be some spots well screened from other interfering signals where you could log in to Italian networks, however definetly this does not apply to the whole town. It was slightly better with Croatian networks. As far as I remember as I was able to log in to at least one of them (either Vip or T-Mobile, I'm not sure now), however I also don't expect it to work very well everywhere. It was just fine next to the coast, nearby the charming old white church.