Doodad • Joke of the Day

[bylo]

DOODAD "is an international SIM card that gives simple, cheap data roaming in 54 countries (and growing) at great, flat rates."

Cheap? Compared to what?

30¢/MB: USA, South Korea, Australia

60¢/MB: China, Canada, UK

90¢/MB: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Martinique, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

$1.20/MB: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Panama, Samoa, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Turks & Caicos

Europe at 90¢/MB ($900/GB) is cheap?

(I suppose compared to what Canadian carriers charge for roaming it is... )

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by bylo

(I suppose compared to what Canadian carriers charge for roaming it is... )

Well,------the SIM is free [$3 shipping!]

I thought this post was spam. But no, it is about financial disaster.
Thanks for bring this to our attention.

Just curious, what is a good Prepaid data rate in Canada for data?

[bylo]

Not a lot of choice. You can get a SpeakOut or PetroCanada SIM for $10, load some money into it and get what they call "Unlimited Mobile Browsing" for $10/month. UMB lets you browse, e-mail and a few other things but it's not unrestricted data. So VoIP won't work for example. (You get around most of that with a proxy or VPN...)

But my reference to Canadian carriers and foreign roaming fees was intended to make Doodad's pricing look good. See e.g.
Dad gets $22,000 data roaming 'shock' from Fido and
Dad talks $22,000 cellphone roaming charge down to $200

These sorts of charges aren't unusual when Canadians take their carrier-locked phones outside Canada.

[JamesBody]

Originally Posted by bylo

DOODAD "is an international SIM card that gives simple, cheap data roaming in 54 countries (and growing) at great, flat rates."

Cheap? Compared to what?
Europe at 90¢/MB ($900/GB) is cheap?

$0.90 per MB is certainly *NOT* cheap by any stretch of the imagination!

I am guessing that his SIM is using a US Roaming Profile - hence the ridiculously high data costs!