I am currently with orange on PAYG and have found that there
international coverage is rubbish, which uk provider offers the best
international coverage on PAYG. looking for mainly at far East
coverage

Cheers

Phil

On 8 Jun, 12:04, Phil  wrote:
> I am currently with orange on PAYG and have found that there
> international coverage is rubbish, which uk provider offers the best
> international coverage on PAYG. looking for mainly at far East
> coverage
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil

my advise would be to have a look at t-mobile.
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/going-abroad/details-by-country/
for info.  Their UK service and features might not be superb but they
seem to have done ok with their roaming.

I know vodafone contract coverage is pretty good for voice/text
coverage but their pay as you go service is pretty poor also. (Even
contract GPRS roaming is very limited with vodafone...mostly
restricted to the 1 vodafone network in most EU countries which I find
most bizzare seeing as T-Mobile have 3G roaming on nearly all EU
networks.)

"Phil"  wrote in message
news:42d77b69-28d8-4a75-88e9-cc749c548a1d@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>I am currently with orange on PAYG and have found that there
> international coverage is rubbish, which uk provider offers the best
> international coverage on PAYG. looking for mainly at far East
> coverage
> Cheers
> Phil
>
Do you mean roaming abroad, or calling international from the UK?

Steve Terry

"James Lewis"  wrote in message
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> I know vodafone contract coverage is pretty good for voice/text
> coverage but their pay as you go service is pretty poor also.

Eh? Why would there be a difference?

Besides Vodafone let you roam on any foreign network you can find.

--
Andy

On 2008-06-09, Andy Pandy <spam8times@wonderful.spam.invalid> wrote:
>
> "James Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:c2ef20d3-c581-4341-bac6-5d9c3bdac035@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> I know vodafone contract coverage is pretty good for voice/text
>> coverage but their pay as you go service is pretty poor also.
>
> Eh? Why would there be a difference?

PAYG requires different accounting, and not all foreign networks seem
to be willing or able to do that with all roaming partners.

> Besides Vodafone let you roam on any foreign network you can find.

Vodafone has holes.  From a quick scan I don't see Korea or Costa
Rica in their country list, for example, and I'd be quite surprised
if all the other countries they list actually worked with a PAYG SIM.
I don't know of any overseas PAYG SIM which works with either of
the China mobile networks, for example.

Dennis Ferguson