i need data sim , anyone want to rent his sim card?

[Olivier Staiger]

howdy,i should be chasing in late April, all of May and much of June. i need unlimited data sim card. international roaming data is expensive... and coverage map is limited. is there a service for unlimited data prepaid plan for visitors? or, anyone has a data sim card he dont use for a few weeks and wants to rent to me ? which is best data coverage out there, cingular-ATT ?if i buy a iphone and sign data plan, is the sim card useable in another phone/PDA ?the goal is to stream live pix and vids with Nokia N95 with kyte and qik.

 

[Mark Blue]

Olivier - You can tranfer a SIM card from one handset to another, as long as the handset is "unlocked". When you buy a phone/smartphone/PDA from a certain carrier it will be locked to their network. If you buy the same unit from an online internet provider and you buy it "unlocked" then it won't be locked to any particular carrier, but it will cost you more. Just make sure the SIM card, handset, and carrier are all compatible. Most in the US are either CDMA or GSM carriers. TMobile is a GSM carrier, but their data protocol (EDGE) isn't as fast as the CDMA carriers (EVDO).

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Olivier Staiger]

EVDO seems good with Verizon but i would have to get a new phone with it and the few EVDO phones they offer don't run the application I want. So I have to go with GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G SIM technology, to use with my Nokia N95.

best data coverage in the Plains , seems to me , is from ATT cingular.

anyone can get me a MEDIAMAX 200 data plan from cingular ? share ?

i do get international roaming with my swiss SIM in the Plains, but it is very costly, and most of all the coverage map is much smaller ( they do not offer the same coverage as for national clients) and is limited to GPRS ( no EDGE, no 3G). that is why I really want a cingular data plan to use in my phone

 

[Scott Weberpal]

I think you'll find Sprint or AllTel much more reliable (and faster!!) in the plains. With alltel and sprint, nearly all of Kansas is covered in EVDO, along with most of E. NE and parts of OK and TX. Much of the rest of the plains is well blanketed by their 1xRTT with very few coverage gaps. Your best bet is to get an aircard use it while you're here, and then pay the early termination fee when you're done.

 

[mike scantlin]

as someone who has had ATT and Spring data cards, I can tell you that sprint is much more reliable. In OK, KS, and CO. I had it for the trip to Denver last week and it was amazing how good the signal was. with a 13bdi Antenna

 

[J Kinkaid]

as someone who has had ATT and Spring data cards, I can tell you that sprint is much more reliable. In OK, KS, and CO. I had it for the trip to Denver last week and it was amazing how good the signal was. with a 13bdi Antenna

It's a shame that Sprint has almost no coverage in the deep south along with verizion. I guess that for now I will be stuck with Edge untill we get a massive 3G rollout by the end of 2008. 3g is the future not EVDO !



Media max 200 is dead and all data plans from ATT now have a limit of 5 gigs.