[johnacraft]

First, thanks a terrific web site. There is an incredible amount of user information here.

Now, my question: in looking over the French prepaid offerings, two of the providers - SFR and NRJ - offer a EuroCent "per connection" rate for GPRS. Would someone be kind enough to help me compare this "per connection" fee to a per-KB rate?

For example, does this mean that a single transaction with my mail server is 24 or 30 EuroCents, whether there is no email or 100 emails with attachments?

And if I'm browsing the web, does every "click" cost another connection charge?

It seems that if I'm doing mainly email checks, that this is a great deal, but not so much for web surfing.

Finally, is there any special registration required to use GPRS, and can that be activated where I purchase the SIM (for example, the Nice-Cote d'Azur aeroport)?

Any insight you can give me will be appreciated.

JAC