Best GSM card for PC

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I use a Merlin G701 card with great success (try eBay). If you are
travelling I would advise against buying from a network operator like
T-mobile as the card will probably be locked to them. While abroad you'll
want a local SIM card to get lower rates. GPRS can be staggeringly expensive
and using a contract SIM abroad can bring you back to bills of hundreds of
££ just for using email. It's usually much cheaper to buy chunks of GPRS
data in advance, you will probably have to go to the ISPs web site to do
this (catch 22?) but you might get data at about £1 per MB against £5
unbooked. Also, don't use Outlook for email if you can use webmail. Outlook
downloads all the spam etc at high cost. Hope this helps...


"Mike H." <michael10b@msn.com> wrote in message
news:BRs8e.24458$d43.21740@lakeread03...
> I'm getting ready to sign up for T-mobile's data service. I intend to use
it
> for international roaming. Having it for international roaming, I will
find
> myself using it in the US as well. I've noticed that T-mobile tends to
sell
> a single card at any given time. Some have built in antennas, others have
> external antennas. I'm a bit suspicious that the ones with the internal
> antennas like the Sony Ericsson GC79 would have inferior reception, though
> it would be nice to be wrong. I'm open to purchasing an unlocked card from
> another vendor. Any advice?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Mike H.
>
>

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A word of caution. Prepaid GPRS is in its infancy and is often restricted
to limited WAP browsing.If you are going to do internet abroad, consider
Wi-Fi. Boingo and T-Mobile have wifi access in a number of destinations at
no additional charge. Also if your hotel doesn't have wi-fi, consider a
prepaid dialup card. I know that we keep all like to be untethered, but
sometimes dialup still makes sense.

Stu

"Mike H." <michael10b@msn.com> wrote in message
news:UAj9e.26906$d43.26021@lakeread03...
> Thank you Peter. I'll check out this card.
> "Peter Mounsey" <mounseyp@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:gkW8e.9312$443.8168@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
>>I use a Merlin G701 card with great success (try eBay). If you are
>> travelling I would advise against buying from a network operator like
>> T-mobile as the card will probably be locked to them. While abroad you'll
>> want a local SIM card to get lower rates. GPRS can be staggeringly
>> expensive
>> and using a contract SIM abroad can bring you back to bills of hundreds
>> of
>> ££ just for using email. It's usually much cheaper to buy chunks of GPRS
>> data in advance, you will probably have to go to the ISPs web site to do
>> this (catch 22?) but you might get data at about £1 per MB against £5
>> unbooked. Also, don't use Outlook for email if you can use webmail.
>> Outlook
>> downloads all the spam etc at high cost. Hope this helps...
>>
>>
>> "Mike H." <michael10b@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:BRs8e.24458$d43.21740@lakeread03...
>>> I'm getting ready to sign up for T-mobile's data service. I intend to
>>> use
>> it
>>> for international roaming. Having it for international roaming, I will
>> find
>>> myself using it in the US as well. I've noticed that T-mobile tends to
>> sell
>>> a single card at any given time. Some have built in antennas, others
>>> have
>>> external antennas. I'm a bit suspicious that the ones with the internal
>>> antennas like the Sony Ericsson GC79 would have inferior reception,
>>> though
>>> it would be nice to be wrong. I'm open to purchasing an unlocked card
>>> from
>>> another vendor. Any advice?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>
>>> Mike H.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>