Edited by author 07-01-2003 09:41 AM
How much does it cost to shift a megabyte of data from London to Madrid?

If you do it via the Internet, you won't even notice it amongst your normal charges. Even if you dial up, rather than using broadeband, you won't be able to spot the charge. The most predatory dialup "free" ISP will charge something like 50 cents a minute, and a meg shifts in less than five minutes.

But if you ask a phone company to shift it, somehow, they can't do it for less than around $12 a megabyte. A ripoff.

Guy,

Here's the countries I promised where the current Vodafone UK GPRS roaming promotion is available.

The promotion is a 60 percent discount on standard
roaming rates, meaning you pay 3.50 pounds per Mb, as opposed to 8.75 pounds per Mb. The countries are:

Vodafone D2 - Germany
Vodafone Airtel - Spain
SFR - France
Vodafone Ireland
Vodafone Libertel - Netherlands
Vodafone Omnitel - Italy
Vodafone Panafon - Greece
Vodafone Hungary
Vodafone Telecel - Portugal
Europolitan - Sweden
Radiolinja - Finland & Estonia

Steven, PR consultant to Vodafone

It would seem to be important to make sure you select the right carrier, then. I found that I had to use Movistar when I was working in Andalucia, in the Granada district, a couple of months back - and the bill made my eyes water.

As far as I can remember, I couldn't get Vodafone in that region (a town called Orgiva)?

Guy

Hopefully with the "all you can eat" offer, they will have the capacity to back it up.. Since Or*nge improved my GPRS allocation I freq