[ietf78-tech] sims

[joel jaeggli]

On 2010-06-18 10:20, Chris Elliott wrote:
> Randy,
>
> The same AT&T international data plans available for the iPhone are
> available for the iPad. Meaning rather expensive:
>
>    20MB $25
>    50MB $60
> 100MB $120
> 200MB $200

you can get them to add international data at a rather lower rate (about 
15 extra a month, to a smart phone plan). but it's capped at 200MB 
internationaly, mostly it's intended for blackberry users. at the 
nominally 100MB a day that my phone seems to do  if I let it this gets 
retarded rather quickly.

> Would be interesting to compare rates to a locally-acquired data sim.
>
> I've used these plans on a few international trips and even on the
> iPhone it's rather easy to zip through 20MB. Caching helps, for
> example, if you'll be using the Google maps app, while you have wifi
> access bring it up and navigate along your projected route or area at
> various zoom levels.
>
> I may try to do without data this time. 90% of the time I wanted maps/
> gps, and the rest I can probably do without. So I may pay for GPS
> software that covers Maastricht that works off of maps on the phone.
>
> Chris.
>
>
> --
> Chris Elliott
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Randy Bush<randy at psg.com>  wrote:
>
>>> So, in brief, it's possible, it's not cheap, and do bring xacto
>>> knife.
>>
>> and consider just using the wifi
>>
>> thanks, gj
>>
>> randy
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