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Any suggestions on best (cheapest) ISP to use through France - canals - for couple months, then into Spain for winter. Using mobile phone and laptop for E-mail & Internet connections.
ponapay
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Use AOL, they have local numbers in most places.
But get a local SIM card for your phone.
I have used AOL and local SIMS throughout Scandinavia and N Europe and find it easy.
ponapay
But get a local SIM card for your phone.
I have used AOL and local SIMS throughout Scandinavia and N Europe and find it easy.
ponapay
halcyon
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Clara.net now covers France, Germany and Spain, as well as the UK.
Try there site for further details, used them for many years witout a problem.
Brian
Try there site for further details, used them for many years witout a problem.
Brian
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I have a free account with Wanadoo, one of the major ISP's in France. At present there is a CD on offer, by picking one up at any UShip French marine store, or go to the Wanadoo website directly. The joint venture between France Telecom, UShip, Bateaux online and Wanadoo is specifically aimed at the boating fraternity, and again is one in the eye for the UK to show that the French are very keen in supporting their leisure marine industry.
It is the mainstay for my floating office when I am at sea.
Try:
www.uship.fr
www.bateaux.fr
http://wanadoo.fr (leave out the www)
It is the mainstay for my floating office when I am at sea.
Try:
www.uship.fr
www.bateaux.fr
http://wanadoo.fr (leave out the www)
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why local SIM?
surely if you are ringing a local number then you connect as if you were in that country using a local number and ringing a local number - I only though costs were excessive when ringing from 'Spain' to the UK or when receiving calls from the UK when in 'Spain'....
In Cyprus local phone operators charge £25 for the SIM alone (in Greece they are free...dunno about other countries) so you have to rack up a fwe quid before seeing a return on the £25....and the card expires after 6 months of non-use so you need to buy a new one every so often anyway
mailto: stefan@athito.com
surely if you are ringing a local number then you connect as if you were in that country using a local number and ringing a local number - I only though costs were excessive when ringing from 'Spain' to the UK or when receiving calls from the UK when in 'Spain'....
In Cyprus local phone operators charge £25 for the SIM alone (in Greece they are free...dunno about other countries) so you have to rack up a fwe quid before seeing a return on the £25....and the card expires after 6 months of non-use so you need to buy a new one every so often anyway
mailto: stefan@athito.com
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Further food for thought.
I have a mobile phone account with Orange France. Two things that I have noticed over the past 6 months
(1) You pay to receive the calls that originate outside of France
(2) You cannot receive text messages from outside of France
Having taken this up with Orange France, which is backed by France Telecom, the response for the two areas of concern are that they would lose control of the income generated from calls/texts at their expense from their own networks.
They are currently looking into this, as with other irregularities, when you have to pay three different network operators for the same call. I understand that the appropriate EU Commission has issued a statement condemning tripartite charging by mobile phone operators.
I have a mobile phone account with Orange France. Two things that I have noticed over the past 6 months
(1) You pay to receive the calls that originate outside of France
(2) You cannot receive text messages from outside of France
Having taken this up with Orange France, which is backed by France Telecom, the response for the two areas of concern are that they would lose control of the income generated from calls/texts at their expense from their own networks.
They are currently looking into this, as with other irregularities, when you have to pay three different network operators for the same call. I understand that the appropriate EU Commission has issued a statement condemning tripartite charging by mobile phone operators.