Iphone abroad

Skidmcmarx

Hey guys need a little advice.

I'll be going to France for a week in a few days and really need the use of my iphone for recieving calls, texts, and sending texts mostly. Not much in the way of voice calls. All to and from Ireland. Not local numbers

I'm currently on meteor and their roaming rates in france are RIDICULOUS.

I was wondering if someone could suggest an alternative. I'll happily buy a new sim either here or abroad.

Thanks in advance
Ritchie

Tom Dunne

Please read the sticky titled IPHONE THREADS ARE NOT TO BE STARTED IN THIS FORUM.

Tom Dunne

Ok, as has been pointed out to me, this isn't technically an iPhone specific thread, more a roaming question.

Go for it so.

mk6705

Skidmcmarx wrote: »

Hey guys need a little advice.

I'll be going to France for a week in a few days and really need the use of my iphone for recieving calls, texts, and sending texts mostly. Not much in the way of voice calls. All to and from Ireland. Not local numbers

I'm currently on meteor and their roaming rates in france are RIDICULOUS.

I was wondering if someone could suggest an alternative. I'll happily buy a new sim either here or abroad.

Thanks in advance
Ritchie

If you had a phone other than an iPhone you could install cabbage mobile on it and text home for about two cent. If there is a similar application for iPhones you could use that but I'm unaware of that.

seamus

Meteor's roaming rates are slightly better than O2 or Vodafone, except for texts which are 10c dearer on Meteor.

So if you're going to be sending a lot of texts, maybe get a prepay SIM from O2 and use that.

If you have access to a wireless connection over there, you can use eirtext to send texts from your meteor number.

messagemaster

(IPHONE)Does anyone know what the cost of send email and using internet would be abroad?

seamus

Using which operator? Roaming charges are on their websites.

Skidmcmarx

Thanks for the replies guys. Im currently using eirtext to send messages on my home WIFI which works great but i'm not sure what level of WIFI i'll have where i'm staying.

@Seamus, thanks for the suggestion, i might have a look into O2's rates

Random

You could use Eirtext over GPRS? Surely it would still be cheaper than SMS?

Skidmcmarx

To be honest i'm not sure. Meteor says its €10 per mb. Roughly how large is a 2 part SMS?

Hagar

All the McDonalds over here and lots of regular cafes offer free wi-fi internet access. That may help a bit if you use webmail etc.

Random

Skidmcmarx wrote: »

To be honest i'm not sure. Meteor says its €10 per mb. Roughly how large is a 2 part SMS?

Check what the billing increments are. If you're billed per KB then it'll be only 2 or 3c usually.

mk6705

Random wrote: »

You could use Eirtext over GPRS? Surely it would still be cheaper than SMS?

While using Cabbage in Spain it cost 2 cent each time, but I don't know how efficient Eirtext is.