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Travelling in Europe -
19-01-2009, 09:29
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 |
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19-01-2009, 11:30
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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 Thailand: truemove (phone+sms+wifi) International: xxSim+372, toggle +44/+49/+41/+31 Phones: Huawei Mate7, Huawei P9 |
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21-01-2009, 04:49
Would this be good for a traveller going across Europe using about 40 KB/hour 24/7?
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21-01-2009, 07:45
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.
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21-01-2009, 07:52
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21-01-2009, 08:09
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
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21-01-2009, 22:37
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.
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22-01-2009, 10:26
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.
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