Travelling in Europe

[Rolly]

Hi there,

My first time on the forum and instantly I have a question. I am using a tracker in my car and will travel around in Europe. To avoid roaming charges I wonder if a European SIM DATA card exist which can be used in the Western part of Europe ?

Many thanks for a reply.

Best regards
Rolly

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Rolly

Hi there,

My first time on the forum and instantly I have a question. I am using a tracker in my car and will travel around in Europe. To avoid roaming charges I wonder if a European SIM DATA card exist which can be used in the Western part of Europe ?

Many thanks for a reply.

Best regards
Rolly

For tracking devices our customers often use Base Belgium Prepaid-cards.
They charge 2.5 or 3.5 Euro per MB in most european networks, charged by 1k intervals.
BASE : freedom of speech - Roaming tariffs

list of networks with 2.5 and 3.5 euro per MB:
http://www.base.be/01/MyDocuments/da...tariffs_en.pdf


As trackers usually dont send a lot of data this works fine.
Cards like United-Mobile also offer data coverage but charge in 100k chunks -which can be very unfortunate when using tracking devices.

Chris

[adam917]

Would this be good for a traveller going across Europe using about 40 KB/hour 24/7?

[Effendi]

The problem is that most of those "challengers" networks don't have good coverage so you could often find yourself with the coverage of other networks paying more.

[adam917]

Originally Posted by Effendi

The problem is that most of those "challengers" networks don't have good coverage so you could often find yourself with the coverage of other networks paying more.

Well 3.5 €/MB is way better than the roaming rates my home operator charges: 15.36 USD/MB!

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Effendi

The problem is that most of those "challengers" networks don't have good coverage so you could often find yourself with the coverage of other networks paying more.

we programmed a blacklist in our devices that only takes the advantage and challanger networks. The coverage using this is not bad at all and they use about 10€ a month for 24/7 truck tracking

[adam917]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

we programmed a blacklist in our devices that only takes the advantage and challanger networks. The coverage using this is not bad at all and they use about 10€ a month for 24/7 truck tracking

I'm curious - about how little bandwidth are those 'trackers' using? I know when I try to get directions with Google Maps, a lot of data is used due to new map tiles loading up on every action.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by adam917

I'm curious - about how little bandwidth are those 'trackers' using? I know when I try to get directions with Google Maps, a lot of data is used due to new map tiles loading up on every action.

no, these trackers _send_ the GPS positions to a internet server which processes and displays the data. E.g. for delivery trucks or other logistics services as well as for security reasons. One position update to the internet only takes a few bytes.