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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / September 2005Prepaid roamin'
Which pre-paid carrier has the best coverage for OS roamin'. Is Vodafone still the only one offering OS roamimg? Thanks, D, Optus prepaid does some countrys as well > Which pre-paid carrier has the best coverage for OS roamin'. > Is Vodafone still the only one offering OS roamimg? > > Thanks, > > D, Optus has the best prepaid roaming arrangements including Fiji, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA, Spain with NZ and others coming soon. Check the website at http://www.optus.com.au/portal/site/personal/menuitem.9b38bb3dfffbeae30f7416058c 8ac7a0/?vgnextoid=979c1308f0054010VgnVCM10000029a67c0aRCRD Vodafone has had int roaming for ages i'd stick with them Vodafone are worldwide !!! (Cheaper as well) speaking of int roaming i've got a UK Voda Sim , Nz Voda Sim , and Germany Voda Sim , and they all work fine here , haven't had a problem at all :) and the best thing about them is that you can recharge them with an Australian Vodafone recharge voucher. > Optus has the best prepaid roaming arrangements including Fiji, > Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA, Spain with NZ and others coming soon. > Check the website at http://www.optus.com.au/portal/site/personal/menuitem.9b38bb3dfffbeae30f7416 058c8ac7a0/?vgnextoid=979c1308f0054010VgnVCM10000029a67c0aRCRD > Vodafone are worldwide !!! Not really. Plenty of countries where they do not have a presence. those countries being? > > Vodafone are worldwide !!! > > Not really. > > Plenty of countries where they do not have a presence. > those countries being? EXTREMELY strange question!!! but here's your answer. All the country code areas where vodafone is NOT present (not sorted) Canada Aruba The Marianas The Faroe Islands Saipan Anguilla Greenland Guam Antigua Antarktis Bahamas Christmas Island Barbados Coco Islands Bermuda Norfolk Island Cayman Islands Andorra Brunei Darussalam Dominica Nauru Dominican rep Gibraltar Papua New Guinea Grenada Tonga Jamaica Luxembourg Salomon Islands US Virgin Islands Vanuatu Br Virgin Islands Montserrat Wallis & Futuna Puerto Rico Cook Islands St Lucia Niue Island St Vincent Am Samoa Islands St Christopher/Nevis Bulgaria W Samoa Islands Trinidad & Tobago Kiribati Turk & Caico Islands New Caledonia Latvia Tuvalu Morocco French Polynesia West Sahara Moldavia Micronesian Fed Algeria Monaco Marshall Islands Tunisia San Marino Russia Libya Serbia/Montenegro Ukraine Gambia Belarussia Senegal Armenia Mauritania Bosnia-Hercegovina Georgia Mali Macedonia Kazachstan Rep Guinea Tadzjikistan Ivory Coast Turkmenistan Burkina Faso Uzbekistan Niger Liechtenstein Togo South Korea Benin Slovakia Vietnam Mauritius North Korea Liberia Sierra Leone Macau Ghana Cambodia Norway Laos Chad Central African rep Inmarsat Atlantic E Cameroon Falkland Islands Inmarsat Pacific Kap Verde Islands Belize Inmarsat Indian Oc. Sao Tomé & Principe Guatemala Inmarsat Atlantic W Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Bangladesh Gabon Honduras Taiwan Congo Nicaragua Turkey Congo (ex Zaire) Costa Rica India Angola Panama Pakistan Guinea-Bissau St Pierre et Miquelon Sri Lanka Diego Garcia Haiti Burma (Myanmar) Ascension Peru The Maldives The Seychelles Mexico Lebanon Sudan Cuba Jordan Rwanda Argentina Syria Ethiopia Brazil Iraq Somalia Chile Djibouti Colombia Saudi-Arabia Venezuela Yemen Arabrep Aden Tanzania Guadeloupe Oman Uganda Bolivia Un Arab Emirates Burundi Guyana Israel Mozambique Ecuador Zambia French Guyana Qatar Madagascar Paraguay Bhutan Reunion Martinique Mongolia Zimbabwe Surinam Nepal Namibia Uruguay Iran Malawi The Netherl. Antilles Azerbajdzjan Lesotho Malaysia Kirgistan Botswana Swaziland Indonesia Mayotte Philippines The Comores Antarktis St Helena Eritrea Thailand sh.t, no Vodafone? Well there goes my holiday to Guadeloupe.... Regards NJMcK >> those countries being? > [quoted text clipped - 194 lines] > Eritrea > Thailand > those countries being? China, Bangladesh, South America etc etc etc. > > those countries being? > > China, Bangladesh, South America etc etc etc. actually they are present in China (China Telecom Hong Kong) and South America is NOT a country! It's a continent. There are many countries in South America. >> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, at 10:06:16 [GMT GMT] (20:06:16 Saturday, 17 > September [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > and South America is NOT a country! It's a continent. There are many > countries in South America. And none of the ones I've been to have Vodafone service, and I'm fairly sure that would apply for the whole continent. (Offtopic) I must say Brasil does have a remarkable infrastructure (GSM, TDMA, CDMA), with nationwide EDGE, similar to the United States. Guess it depends on where you are travelling to. I took my vodafone and optus sims to New Zealand. (Optus DOES roam to NZ regardless of what their site says) and unlike stupid Vodafone, Optus did not charge me 25c to RECEIVE a bloody message. Thats right, to receive. Then the idiots claimed i was roaming onto the Telecom NZ network.... I would love to know how a dual band GSM handset can roam onto a CDMA/TDMA network, but u know, whatever they say. Optus delivered messages faster, I had complete control over what calls i wanted to bar etc from the optus zoo website. Advantage of Vodafone over Optus: You can send messages from the vodafone website (even if u are on prepaid) for 25c, (even though this may be a rip off considering its only 160 bytes of data, it is still better than having to send from a phone for 75c. Since optus does not allow prepaid customers to send sms through their website, this meant being stuck with 75c per message. Advantage of Optus over vodafone. You dont have to wait an hour for a stupid vodafone rep to pick up the phone to activate roaming, you can just go to optus zoo and activate it from there. Hope that helps  SignatureUnkit > Advantage of Optus over vodafone. > You dont have to wait an hour for a stupid vodafone rep to pick up the > phone to activate roaming, you can just go to optus zoo and activate it > from there. Yeah, Voda are pretty crap. Martin Dawes at least, sent a 3-page fax to fill in, just for IntRoam. Telstra did it within a minute, over the phone >those countries being? If you analyze their presence, you'll see that it's a very typical European company. Total presence: 40 countries In Europe: 27 In Africa: 3 In Asia: 6 In Oceanic: 3 In America: 1 Signature====================================== phone pages http://borgus.net ---- http://osbymikro.tk ====================================== free sms http://2sms.tk >>those countries being? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >In Oceanic: 3 >In America: 1 USA is bigger than all the preceding combined for mobiles, so who cares about Christmas Island. Where they do have coverage, it tends to me very good compared to the othe players. > USA is bigger than all the preceding combined for mobiles, so who > cares about Christmas Island. Where they do have coverage, it tends to > me very good compared to the othe players. In USA they only have CDMA, not GSM, and not directly but through a share in Verizon Wireless (may have the wrong name here, please feel free to correct / criticise if needed) > >>those countries being? > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > USA is bigger than all the preceding combined for mobiles, so who > cares about Christmas Island. USA is bigger as long as you compare with Christmas Island, but Vodafone nets in Germany, Italy and UK are far bigger than the Verizon net (not even GSM). > Where they do have coverage, it tends to > me very good compared to the othe players. It depends very much on where you are looking. Well... in Hungary it's the smallest net... in Sweden, the smallest as welll, they´re trying to sell it... In most European countries Vodafone is the most expensive alternative, without offering anything extra. >> Where they do have coverage, it tends to >> me very good compared to the othe players. > It depends very much on where you are looking. Well... in Hungary it's the > smallest net... in Sweden, the smallest as welll, theyŽre trying to sell > it... And in Oz the worst coverage by a country mile. |
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