Bandwidth pig traveling in Spain and Germany for 4 weeks

[familytruckster]

I thought I would share this see what people's take it. I leave in a couple weeks for Spain. will be there for 1 weeks then Germany then back to Spain for 2 weeks. ATT International is CRAP.... I have friends at Carriers in Spain so I pinged them.

SPAIN - first off the whole "movistar iPad data plan is free" as long as you have a smart phone. Here is the real story. you pay 39 Euros for 5 GB then the sim in your smartphone and the sim in the ipad SHARE the 5 GB. Once you hit that on 2 devices (or the lower priced lower limits) then they rate limit your connectivity to 128kbps. So it is not free. So far I think my solution is to land in Spain. Buy the 39 Euro/5 GB plan for my iPad3G. Should be plenty and cheaper than ATT's 200 USD/200MB....
movistar comes with wifi access too.
I found a site with these in it too. May look into these over there.
Spain Vodafone €17,40/mo for 250 MB, €37,12/mo for unlimited
Spain Orange €3,50/day for unlimited, €35/mo for unlimited



GERMANY - I have not figured out yet.
Germany O2 €10/mo for 200 MB, €15/mo for 1 GB, €25/mo for unlimited
Germany Vodafone €19,95/mo for 200 MB, €29,95/mo for unlimited (fair use applies)

Anyone swapped the microsim in EU and had any issues bouncing around like this?

Some links. http://gigaom.com/2010/05/10/ipad-data-plan-guide/

 

[Jaro65]

You could also try Boingo for whenever you're around WiFi hotspots.

 

[familytruckster]

All the providers I found give you wifi included....same logic as ATT to get people onto terrestrial nx10G core as quick as possible. I definitely need 3g in car over there.