I’m going on vacation soon and have been considering my options for mobile data\/Internet in Europe. <\/p>\n
Plan A was to prepurchase data from Rogers Wireless as they offer discounts<\/a> when you do this. Well a 57% savings is great but when the roaming data charges are large enough to be obscene, 57% is still WAY too much. Without trying I use over 100MB\/month and will probably use more while traveling. That would cost me over $1,000CA while in Europe.<\/p>\n Plan B involved unlocking my iPhone<\/a> and getting a prepaid account with a Eueopean provider. Alas I have the 5.09 bootloader and so can’t easily unlock my phone. <\/p>\n Plan C is to either buy a USB modem and unlock it or get one from the European provider I use. Then plug that into the Cradlepoint PHS300<\/a> so I can connect my iPhone via WiFi. The advantage of this is that I can take an Eye-Fi with me as well. <\/p>\n Plan D is to use the hotels Internet connection and free hotspots. The disadvantage to this is not having access to the iPhone Map application while wandering around. <\/p>\n So I think Plan D is my obvious default choice but I’m going to try and implement Plan C. My reason for this is that I can get a prepaid data account from O2<\/a> with unlimited usage for 40\u20ac. The question is whether I can get a reasonably priced GSM data stick. I can get one in Europe for 70\u20ac but I don’t know the make and so can’t confirm it would work with the PHS300. I can also use the PHS300 while at home so the cost for it isn’t single use. I also think it would be pretty neat to have an ongoing photo gallery of my trip that is essentially updated in real time. I’m also considering blogging a bit but may not. I started this post on my iPhone just to test the WordPress application but quickly realized many limitations. If I do post, it will be text only and pretty brief. I’m more likely to tweet frequently from @lcoker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m going on vacation soon and have been considering my options for mobile data\/Internet in Europe. Plan A was to prepurchase data from Rogers Wireless as they offer discounts when you do this. Well a 57% savings is great but when the roaming data charges are large enough to be obscene, 57% is still WAY … <\/p>\n