Mobile Internet - for use in other countries

[lagermeister]

Does anyone know of a service that provides mobile internet for use in other countries, e.g. england, spain, france. I have been to SAPO but theirs is only for use in Portugal. Any idas?

[HampshireRich]

The company I work for is pan-European and use Orange as their supplier - phones and internet access work across EU and Switzerland.

[lagermeister]

Thanks for that. But I need to take a laptop on business so I need one the sticks or dongles I think???

[charles hewitt]

i use a vodafone connector. Works globally. Costs £8 per day outside of UK.

[Michael Crane]

i use a vodafone connector. Works globally. Costs £8 per day outside of UK.

£8 per day is a whopping £240 odd a month! Is this every day, or just on the days during which you use it?

[charles hewitt]

Sorry, just the days I use it and it is a 24 hr period not calendar days. So I tend to use an afternoon followed by a morning to get 2 days for the price of 1!

[Michael Crane]

That's better! In the UK most hotels I go in charge £15 per 24 hours.

[fmm]

Doing what you are suggesting is perfectly OK with virtually all of the dongles you can buy (including the ones sold in Portugal) but extremely expensive. I think we should club together on the website and get half a dozen of the 22 euro a month dongles which we can "rent" out to members for the time they are in Portugal! I have ended up paying the 22 euros a month even though I will only use mind maybe 4 months of the year. It is the convenience of knowing it works and it still costs less than using my PDA to get emails etc.

[pickwick]

Vodafone UK (business) have a tarif for a datacard (suitable for laptop) that you pay £15 extra for data throughout Europe on top of the tariff you choose for UK data!