Evening all,

I'll be heading to the EU for a little over 2 weeks in a week or so,
and am in need of some advice.  I'd like to use my FR over there, and
as such need a prepaid SIM.

As for requirements;
1) I'd like to use the same card in Germany (Munich), France
(Toulouse), and Switzerland (Lausanne)
2) I need to be able to make/receive international calls/SMS
3) I'd like to try out some of this newfangled GPRS stuff (N.America
sucks this for reasonable plans).

I'll be arriving in Munich so that'll be where I'll pick up the SIM.

Since a good number of the community are from those areas, I'd like to
ask your advice on a carrier/options for all this.

Any suggestions?

Kind regards,

Toaster

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This should be possible with most pre-paid card. However, roaming costs are
not cheap (although they just got a load less expensive, thanks to the
European Parliament), and you'd certainly pay less if you bought a new card


Again, any decent carrier with offer this.

Regards

Jeff

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in switzerland is no prepaid-card with gprs avaible, as i know. just with 
abonoments.
if i'm wrong, please write it into list, i like to had something like this :) 

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Be careful with the gprs, the costs for roaming data is crazy, 10
euro/Mb is no exception !



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Last time I went to Germany I picked up a blau.de SIM card. The rates are 
reasonable compared to Canadian rates. 2 issues with this are the other 
countries will have high roaming rates and you need to have someone with a 
German credit card or bank account get it for you.

Angus

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The cheapest gprs prepaid in germany is simyo: www.simyo.de 9 c't / MB

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9c/MB? where did you get that from, on [1] they write 24c/MB. I use
medionmobile/alditalk which is the same price per MB.
And they also offer a 24h-flat(throttled to 56kbit/s after 1GB) for 2EUR and a
30-days-flat(throttled after 5GB) for 15EUR.
Especially the 24h-flat is perfect for a day trip and cheaper than a cup of
coffee :D

[1] http://www.simyo.de/de/informieren/mobiles_internet.html

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This is quite interesting, how does getting one work?  Do most shops
carry them?  And can it be combined with voice/SMS operation?

Please bear with me, I looked over the site, but as I don't know any
German the details are elusive (And putting faith in google translate
for monetary related items is not something I enjoy).

I know that when I was in Italy, I could get a SIM with cash and a
passport, is it similar in DE or do I need a local credit card?

Kind regards,

Cameron

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Hi,

I'm in Germany and use "Medionmobile" which is sold at all "Aldi"-Stores
in Germany. Unfortunately their FAQ states you need a permanent
residence address in Germany and they will check whether a person with
the name and address you provide them exists before letting you make
calls. Same appears to be valid for "Fonic" and I assume the others
won't be different

So, no suggestion, just a warning.
Peter


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Qik Roam has a prepaid SIM that works in hundreds of countries.

But I have no idea if anybody has succeeded in getting one working in a 
Freerunner.


http://www.qikroam.com

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