New data-roaming offer by Wind Italy

[Effendi]

Starting these days a new Wind offer for data is available, called Roaming No Limit (a totally misleading name...).

With a monthly fee of € 3.00 you can have the same tariff for data both in Italy and while roaming on some selected countries, i.e. € 3.00/MB (1KB increments, no set-up fee).

The countries where this offer works are:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA.

No matter which operator you will roam on, only the country counts.

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Another good piece of news comes from TIM.
There's a new rate for data roaming on selected countries: € 0.008/KB (8€/MB)
Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

[dg7feq]

not bad, how can this be switched on/off?

Chris

[Effendi]

The usual way... just send an SMS to the short number 4533 (free while in Italy, € 0.50 abroad) writing: "ROAMING NO LIMIT SI". To deactivate "ROAMING NO LIMIT NO".

[ca-uk]

would this give 3G data?

[Effendi]

Yes, where there's 3G agreement (most of Europe) it works also on 3G.
I can tell you for sure that in the USA it doesn't work on AT&T's 3G net, but surely you have 3G in UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal and probably many more...

[Bossman]

Okay, I just learnt something new. So, there actually has to be 3G agreement, and not just data agreement for foreign sims to roam on 3G if available. My Virgin UK sim roams on AT&T's 3G here without any problems. So does a friend's Tmobile UK sim. You would think as long as a phone has the appropriate bands and there is data agreement, it should be able to use data, 3G or not.

Originally Posted by Effendi

Yes, where there's 3G agreement (most of Europe) it works also on 3G.
I can tell you for sure that in the USA it doesn't work on AT&T's 3G net, but surely you have 3G in UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal and probably many more...

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Bossman

Okay, I just learnt something new. So, there actually has to be 3G agreement, and not just data agreement for foreign sims to roam on 3G if available. My Virgin UK sim roams on AT&T's 3G here without any problems. So does a friend's Tmobile UK sim. You would think as long as a phone has the appropriate bands and there is data agreement, it should be able to use data, 3G or not.

no, the agreements for GSM and 3G are negociated seperately.

Chris

[Effendi]

Most of the times if there's a data agreement it works also on 3G, but since they are 2 different networks (even if with the same net-code) there are different agreements. Wind on AT&T is an example, but there are many more in Europe too...

[wco81]

Still seems a pretty steep tariff. Shouldn't take much to use up a MB.

A device like the iPhone has supposedly boosted mobile data usage so at 3G speeds, you can load several dozen web sites in an hour and use up tens of MBs, no?

[Viva]

Originally Posted by wco81

Still seems a pretty steep tariff. Shouldn't take much to use up a MB.

A device like the iPhone has supposedly boosted mobile data usage so at 3G speeds, you can load several dozen web sites in an hour and use up tens of MBs, no?

This is also my concern .. I am going on Holiday during the next week to Italy and have just found this site. I am still none the wiser after reading through some of the posts.. "Wind" (SIM) from the sticky, etc.. to be easy enough to set up.. but with my iPhone I just wonder how much data it would actually eat up as I tend to browse the net for roughly 20 minutes a day with my iPhone.. so I need to find something similar for use in Italy but as cheap as possible.

Any ideas?