GPRS in France

[feklee]

Originally Posted by DaveRo

Having subscribed I can see nothing on the orange.fr website to tell me how much of my 10Mb I've got left. As to whether Option Internet automatically renews every month - something the helpdesk said suggested it did but I don't know.

Can you unsubscribe from the service online? What happens when the 10MB are used up?

Is there no alternative to Orange to get cheap prepaid GPRS? As it looks, Orange is the largest provider in France, and - at least in Germany - the largest provider is often not the cheapest.

BTW, there's also Vodafone WebSessions which can be used in various countries with a Vodafone SIM card. Cost is about 15 EUR/day which can be a good offer, depending on the usage scenario.

[DaveRo]

Originally Posted by feklee

Can you unsubscribe from the service online? What happens when the 10MB are used up?

AFAICS you can neither subscribe nor unsubscribe online - though the orange.fr website is terrible so it might be there somewhere.

When you use up the 10MB it simply swallows the rest of the credit on the card - in my case 4EUR. As I already said, I found no way to find out my data balance online or via messaging.

Option Internet Plus with a cheap subscription (I think there's one at 7EUR/month) might be more practicable if visiting France a lot but I don't plan to do that.

Dave