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gmmour · 15-07-2007, 01:51

Hi,
A new Wind F2G (PAYG) SIM card costs 5€ and gives you 5€ of airtime (1€ every month for the five first months provided that you top-up at least once per month).

The XML parsing error (at least in Opera) is prevalent but you just have to click on the "reparse page as HTML" tag and it will work, but it is annoying...

The Wind proxy makes the connection quite slower and latencies longer...
Opera mini is great and doesn't have problems because it first passes and filters the pages you request through Opera's own servers so the pages that arrive on your phone are preformated by Opera and images shrinked in order for them to download fast and easy on your mobile. Some time Opera Mini freaks out but I think that's a problem of the Opera servers, as at the same time the GPRS connection through the laptop works fine...

Bluetooth is the best solution to get good signal.

Finally, Wind has EDGE support installed on all base stations since 2004 but they have never given it to the public for their own unknown reasons, some say they don't have adequate backbone in rural Greece for that... Probably they didn't bother since they offered 3G in cities where they have interest by business users but it would be great for them to offer EDGE everywhere on their GSM footprint!

Cosmote recently announced they covered 80% of their network with 3GSM and they're planning to have a complete network overlay with 3GSM by the end of the year, which means that Cosmote will cover the entire country with 3GSM! Wind and Vodafone GR are not even close to that, covering only cities!!!

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gmmour (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 92 Join Date: 03 Oct 2006 Country:	15-07-2007, 01:51 Hi, A new Wind F2G (PAYG) SIM card costs 5€ and gives you 5€ of airtime (1€ every month for the five first months provided that you top-up at least once per month). The XML parsing error (at least in Opera) is prevalent but you just have to click on the "reparse page as HTML" tag and it will work, but it is annoying... The Wind proxy makes the connection quite slower and latencies longer... Opera mini is great and doesn't have problems because it first passes and filters the pages you request through Opera's own servers so the pages that arrive on your phone are preformated by Opera and images shrinked in order for them to download fast and easy on your mobile. Some time Opera Mini freaks out but I think that's a problem of the Opera servers, as at the same time the GPRS connection through the laptop works fine... Bluetooth is the best solution to get good signal. Finally, Wind has EDGE support installed on all base stations since 2004 but they have never given it to the public for their own unknown reasons, some say they don't have adequate backbone in rural Greece for that... Probably they didn't bother since they offered 3G in cities where they have interest by business users but it would be great for them to offer EDGE everywhere on their GSM footprint! Cosmote recently announced they covered 80% of their network with 3GSM and they're planning to have a complete network overlay with 3GSM by the end of the year, which means that Cosmote will cover the entire country with 3GSM! Wind and Vodafone GR are not even close to that, covering only cities!!!