n95 and overseas trip

[trance247]

i am going to holland, spain. belgium, egypt and israel for 4 weeks in june, i am thinking to buy nokia n95 and upload stuff on youtube documenting my trip, is there prepaid data service that will let me use 3g in all or most of those places and not terribly expensive?

 

[pm]

I haven't heard of a prepaid international data plan from anyone in the US. AT&T has a fairly expensive international roaming data plan. Once you are over, you can buy prepaid phonecard SIMs from vendors in each country, but there are very few that will let you use them internationally over all of Europe and the Middle East and data tends not to be high-speed.

The one carrier that I can think of that covers most of the countries that you mentioned is Vodafone. Vodafone has a roaming prepaid card that offers WAP data access if you get their "Prepaid Extras" pack. It will work in Spain, Israel and Egypt, and Belgium, but not - to the best of my knowledge - in Holland. Googling for this, I didn't find a good link... but when I was last in Europe (about 9 months ago) I remember hearing about it. I think they offer UMTS on prepaid as well... but I'm not sure of this. I did some Googling, but I couldn't find many details - you may have more luck.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Vodafone are in Holland. Remember, Holland comes under 'The Netherlands' when searching. They have UMTS 3G there.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

Just get a Vodafone sim card once you are there.

 

[uli2000]

Just use the wifi at a hotspot.

 

[pm]

Thanks for the correction, Dividebyzero. Vodafone is in Holland/The Netherlands - I forgot that they are the same.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: uli2000
Just use the wifi at a hotspot.

i think this would be the best solution.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: pm
Thanks for the correction, Dividebyzero. Vodafone is in Holland/The Netherlands - I forgot that they are the same.

HTH!