Looking in hope of finding a 3G provider found "3" a UK based 3G provider price wise looks great for the UK but not Europe
A skype competitor truphone http://www.truphone.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; looks great untill you check the prices call from the UK or USA to about anywhere are very good as is skype at about one tenth of the cost of useing a traditional telecom
I then checked the price of a mobile call from Portugal to France and the price is the same as a call from France to Portugal about 39 cents /min (cant find the rate when i looked just now but its about 39c) using voderphone in Portugal i was able to call during weekends at a fraction of that cost.
I chose Portugal as its a nice place but calling a number there from somewhere outside Portugal costs a fortune as dose calling during weekdays or calling a non voderphone number in Portugal (i chose the super saver voderphone to voderphone)
Before i left the other forum" Lady Jessy" & Lemain" for example used to say they used 3G which made life comfortable.One of "Lady Jessy" s posts sent me then on a search for 3G the post read along the lines "im anchored in a beautif turkish bay loged into the forum & able to post useing 3G" At that time i was happy to have internet connection via a very slow but also useful pactor pc connection
Pactor while being very useful dosnt always work & has use restrictions limiting the time to then, an hour a day later i was shut out for over use finaly agreeing to use the connection between midnight and 6am only
If the USA & UK can offer unlimited 3G for a reasonable price and mobile phone calls from the USA & UK why cant the same service be offered in other European contries????
While in Portugal i was disappointed to find even Mac donalds dont provide free wi-fi only a trial use offered by pt telecom. & "tickets" advertised in shopping centers that the pt shops didnt know about? Locals with an adsl contract could have 2 giga pm wi-fi at say mac donalds or shopping centers only problem the codes given wouldnt conect????
After finding out how many kbts = a megabit=a gigabit & reading the 3G small print 3G cost 210€ per giga ditto Spain & France at 270€ per giga then
I wonder what the cost of 3G via TIM in Italy is today??& which telecoms in Turkey provide 3G???& at what cost??? What i read while looking online in Portugal useing a very slow library PC was that Turkey was not inexpensive??I never found a price just coments that others had found it costly wonder how much it dose cost
dose anyone know of a 3G provider or telecome that offers an afordable 3G or mobile phone deal????
Why only the USA & UK so far??????