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I turned off my wi-fi card on the iPhone and used for testing purposes only Edge for 3 full days.
My data usage totaled 7MB. At the current ATT International rate the same data transfers would have costed me $140!!!!! In just 3 days , doing nothing more than emails. How are we supposed to travel with an iPhone????
The only plan offered gives you 20MB per month (which is nothing) and cost $24.95 and after that you still pay $20 per meg.
I believe the iPhone can only be effective with an all you can eat international data plan...
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International Data Roaming Plan
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billedark 
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 11:16 PM
I've lived in the US for more than 6 years now, and during that time I've owned about 4 phones with T-Mobile as well as Cingular/ATT. All have been quadband sim locked phones, and whenever I have traveled back to Europe I have simply called up ATT or T-Mobile and told them to have my phone unlocked since I'd like to use a prepaid European plan. They have never protested this, and have always been very accommodating. Of course, I doubt that it will be as easy to do with the iPhone (though no one has ever tried right?), but I'm sure they'll have to give in eventually and start giving out the unlock codes. Hopefully before my next trip to Europe /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
--Thomas R.
--Thomas R.
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CCDouglas
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Posted 03 August 2007 - 07:56 AM
Both ATT and Apple said there was no way to unlock my iPhone while I was in Europe recently, not even temporarily. I asked.
WiFi does not work on the iPhone with many (all?) of the carriers in Europe. Once the carrier connected with my iPhone, which only takes seconds, all programs using WiFi hung. In Safari, the blue bar freezes on new URLs after the h in http. Maps does not work. It is quite frustrating. Turning off all carriers did not work if one had already connected to my iPhone.
My tests were in Austria and Germany using A1, T Mobile, One, and Vodafone. Not all have Edge or Edge everywhere, so the expensive data plan can be irrelevant.
Without a real change in how the carriers in Europe treat WiFi on the iPhone, I do not see how any company Apple partners with is going to useful. The rumor is it will be Vodafone, which was by far the worst of the four I tried.
WiFi does not work on the iPhone with many (all?) of the carriers in Europe. Once the carrier connected with my iPhone, which only takes seconds, all programs using WiFi hung. In Safari, the blue bar freezes on new URLs after the h in http. Maps does not work. It is quite frustrating. Turning off all carriers did not work if one had already connected to my iPhone.
My tests were in Austria and Germany using A1, T Mobile, One, and Vodafone. Not all have Edge or Edge everywhere, so the expensive data plan can be irrelevant.
Without a real change in how the carriers in Europe treat WiFi on the iPhone, I do not see how any company Apple partners with is going to useful. The rumor is it will be Vodafone, which was by far the worst of the four I tried.
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