European 3G charges???

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Hey guys.
I quick question. If I have unlimited internet in the UK as part of my contract, will the price of internet access in Europe, over 3G, be expensive? I'm possibly going away this weekend depending on if we can get passports and flights sorted.
Any help would be appreciated,
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I think it won't be cheap. Just try to find Wi-fi whereever you go.

Thats what I was planning but when I'm out and about it won't be that easy. I forgot to mention I'm on T-Mobile.
 
It's limited due to EU directives but it can become expensive with things like gps and stuff
 
T-Mobile is going to be about £1 per 3Mb on EU data roaming. 3 is the cheapest at £5 for all you can eat.
 
Thanks guys. It sounds like I'll be off Facebook and GTPlanet if I don't have Wifi. :grumpy:
 
Check with your provider, a lot of them recently introduced schemes that give you things like unlimited data for £5 a day. 3 seem to be the best network for it. If your phone is unlocked you could always get a cheap or free 3 sim card just for holiday use.
 
I was in Germany this weekend for the F1 and I got a text from O2 saying it was £1.99 per day for up to 25MB, which isn't unreasonable. I didn't use it but it was good to know.
 
Vodafone sent me a text t'other day saying that I can pay £3/day to use my current price plan abroad - in other words it's like you've never left the country, only you're warmer and the food's better.

Think it's called Euro Traveller or something, but only works on Pay Monthly - just throwing it out there if you happen to be abroad with one of their customers or something.
 
I think there's new EU regulation in place, making providers stop their service until you acknowledge that you've spent more than a certain amount abroad already - wasn't it like that?
 
That is some cheap data roaming charges...
For me, it is $0.02/kb (~$20/MB). That is about $10 to upload one photo to facebook.
 
And while I was on my carrier's website checking the costs to make that post, one of those chat-help windows popped up, so I asked the guy on the other end if there are any packages I can get to make it reasonable. The response - buy a SIM card in Europe. Awesome business model - make a service soooo expensive, the only viable option is to reccomend to your customers not to use it :dopey:
 
And while I was on my carrier's website checking the costs to make that post, one of those chat-help windows popped up, so I asked the guy on the other end if there are any packages I can get to make it reasonable. The response - buy a SIM card in Europe. Awesome business model - make a service soooo expensive, the only viable option is to reccomend to your customers not to use it :dopey:

He's right, tho - and it's awesome because he's really trying to help you instead of helping his company to make more money. ;)
 
The thing is, that is the company line, not the guy on the other side of the keyboard being friendly.
 
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Thats what I was planning but when I'm out and about it won't be that easy. I forgot to mention I'm on T-Mobile.

Find hotels and coffee shops for free wifi.

I don't know what is in on that side of the pond but I'm going to the states next week for holidays and it is $0.01 per KB... So mind if half what Barra said but still extremely expensive. Even texts are $0.25 incoming and outgoing.

I know some companies have international data plan add ons but they aren't cheap either.
 
Thanks for the Responses guys. Decided to go to Monaco on Friday so that will cause some more problems when it comes to this. The hotel has wifi included in the price (I'd bloody hope so!) so it will be fine whilst there. Can anyone recommend places with free wi-fi there?
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Almost every restaurant and bar on Crete had wifi last year. And Crete is the armpit of the butt-crack of Europe.
 
Not every restaurant and hotel here in the UK has wifi. Your best be is to find coffee shops for wifi.
 
I can only tell about Denmark, and here we got free internet in most of the big shopping centres, so you might want to try one of those, if there are any.
 
Just go to a local phone provider in the euro county you visit and buy a pay as you go sim (providing your phone is un locked) I pay 5 euro per month for 100mb per day.
 
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