[1st-mile-nm] Data Access Costs in Europe

[Steve Ross]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that has been ONLY for Blackberry -- the
deal RIM wanted..

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Edward Angel <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:

> So has verizon.
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> On Apr 24, 2011, at 7:37 PM, John Brown wrote:
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>  ATT has always unlocked all of our blackberry gsm phones with no fuss or
> muss
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> It is mainly just profiteering. I'm on T-Mobile, which is owned by Deutsch
> Telecom anyway. If I roam on a T-Mobile SIM or buy a local SIm card, my
> rates are 30% higher than they were a year ago, in dollar terms, because the
> dollar has fallen against the euro.  What I tend to do is use Skype and a
> Vonage softphone on my netbook, and call on a comparatively cheap pure wifi
> network instead.
>
> But T-Mobile unblocked my phone so I can use the alien SIM! Verizon can't
> (in its GSM-capable worldphones) and AT&T won't.
>
> Steve
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> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Bill Feiereisen <Bill at feiereisen.net>
> wrote:
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>
> I just returned from a business trip to Europe where I was faced with the
> exorbitant costs of data access that have (apparently) been worked out
> between my (two) American cell providers (AT&T and Verizon) and the local
> mobile companies.
>
> On my last trip last year my only data access, other than local wifi, was
> on my Verizon blackberry. At that time I could buy an international data
> package with unlimited data for about $20/month.
>
> In the meantime I have acquired an AT&T iPhone and a Verizon hotspot and
> was hoping to buy an equivalent plan for each, The good folks at Verizon
> told me that the plans changed on January 11, 2011 to limit the amount of
> data to the smart phone and that the costs are now astronomical. Both the
> phone and the hotspot are now limited to rates of about $100 for 75 MB. This
> is so counter productive that it hardly makes sense to buy the data access
> at all.
>
> Does anyone know what has happened and why this pricing has become so
> punitive? Is this just a result of bad negotiations between US and the
> European providers?
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