Greece: Cosmote and Wind prepaid data

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tri39 said:
Can anyone recommend a shop in Preveza/Levkas/Nidri where I can buy a MiFi and data card.!?
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I've never used a 'mifi' device (i.e. a dedicated standalone mobile wireless access point) but since nobody's answered this ...

1 Cosmote sell these things but they seem absurdly expensive (72€ for 4 hours?).
http://www.cosmote.gr/cosmoportal/c...HDV&sku=20265986&catName=Pocket_Wi-Fi_Prs&s=0
I expect Voda and Wind do something similar but you need to trawl their websites and do a lot of google-translating to work out what's available.

2 The cheap way of doing it is with your own unlocked device and a local PAYG SIM card such as the ones in my OP - either with your own mifi device or a phone. I know nothing about the former but I've used a mobile phone as a hotspot (Nokia N95 8GB with JoikuSpot app) on Turkcell. You could buy such a phone on eBay - about £30? (An iPhone can be used as a hotspot, but not with all SIMs; this has been mentioned on YBW before - but I don't think anybody has mentioned using a Greek PAYG SIM in one.)

3 The challenge with using PAYG cards that are meant for phones is that you often have to activate and subscribe to data using SMS. That's easy for a phone but a challenge for a tablet (I can't do it with our iPad without jailbreaking it - I have to move the SIM into a phone to subscribe).

4 I'm sure that all the main operators have big shops in Preveza. The trick is to know exactly what you want before you go in. (Then they'll tell you it doesn't exist ;-). Voda shops are the most customer-friendly, and OTE the least in my experience. (But have the best coverage.)

Good luck
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Vodafone give me 5Gb for €14.99/month on a dedicated data cellular SIM which I can use in a Huawei cellular USB modem, a mobile phone or a mi-fi device.

Three years ago WIND gave me, on their Free2Go PAYG SIM, a year's free mobile data at no charge (the offer only lasted 6 weeks). All these are/were Greek SIMs purchased in Greece. I have also used TIM (in Italy), Bouygues in France and TMobile in Croatia.

When I'm on the boat my usage is a modest 2.5 - 3.5Gb/month - when in the UK about 12 - 25Gb/month.

Judicious enquiry always produces considerably cheaper rate than the ones headlined at the start of the thread. One problem is that the Sales Offices are frequently unaware of the best offers (the Bouygues was through their telesales), (TMobile through their HO in Croatia), the Vodafone through the business telesales office in Kerkyra.
 
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