GPRS with Z600/PowerBook in Europe

[Rob Parker]

Hi, folks.

I'm traveling in the UK and Italy right now and would like to know if 
these pre-paid SIM cards that you can buy from various mobile phone 
carriers are capable of GPRS data services that I can use to check my 
POP3 email accounts from my PowerBook. I do it at home with T-Mobile 
but can't seem to get it to work in London. I'm only here for a day 
so it's not really all that important, but I'd like to get it working 
for the week to follow in Italy. WAP and voice calls work fine in 
London with my US T-Mobile account, but when I try to connect with my 
PowerBook using Ross Barkman's scripts 
<http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html> I get a message that the GPRS 
...

Holy crap! I just tried connecting again so I could report the exact 
error code from the phone and the damn thing connected! I was able to 
check my email. Unbelievable! It is connected using the US settings 
listed on Ross' page. I didn't think it was possible.

OK, so my next question is this. I've successfully connected to GPRS 
using my US T-Mobile settings in London. I'll be charged a premium 
for that, I'm sure. There's no T-Mobile service in Italy...I'll 
probably use a prepaid TIM or Vodaphone SIM. Will I have to make 
changes to my actual phone settings or just the APN and login 
information that Ross has so kindly provided?

I remember setting up the phone for use at home and I can do it again 
when I get back to the States so it may be easiest to restore the 
factory phone settings and start all over.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Kind regards,

Rob Parker