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Old 4th July 2008 | 17:48
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IO540
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The data rates are an absolute minefield; every network is different and they carefully avoid revealing how much more roaming rates are.

For example Vodafone.co.uk (click on Mobile Internet) offers £1/day unlimited data; this is NON roaming but they don't say so.

Similarly their £7.50/month contract with unlimited ("fair usage") data is NON roaming, but again they don't draw attention to that.

After a lot of work I found a page showing some roaming charges. These vary according to country and which network you roam with. For Austria:

£5 per day for up to 15MB
or £4.99 per MB

and that is just Vodafone. There are other networks, with different charges.

I normally use Virgin for data when I can because they are £5/MB for both roaming and non-roaming but it looks like Voda dropped from £10 to £5/MB recently.

Something worth considering is a contract, rather than PAYG. Not so great for flying usage because this is heavily concentrated into the summer, but if one can get a contract SIM card for one's normal phone, and then use that phone as a GPRS/3G modem, one is at least using the same SIM card for both jobs. Some of the recent contracts have lower cost data than they used to be for a long time.
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