Giffgaff in the UK has announced that it will no longer support roaming on
Maritime Communications Partner, a network that supplies GSM connectivity via satellite on board ships. From reading a
thread in which giffgaff announced this disconnection, it turns out that a huge number of those working on board cruise ships use giffgaff's £2.50/month Blackberry option because it allows 10MB/day of inclusive data on old Blackberrys. I'm guessing that many of these giffgaff customers are not UK-based. Clearly giffgaff found it cannot afford to give away 300MB/month of data roaming for £2.50/month, particularly on an expensive satellite network like
MCP. However, rather than simply excluding
MCP from its Blackberry option, giffgaff is cancelling its roaming agreement with
MCP altogether.
Can anyone recommend an international SIM card for these many soon-to-be-ex-giffgaff customers? It will need to support data roaming on
MCP.