[BTM] GPRS with Z600/PowerBook in Europe

[David DelMonte]

Rob, I believe that if the local provider has GPRS, it will work. I 
haven't found the service widespread yet - it isn't in Greece where I 
am.

David

On May 15, 2004, at 8:14 PM, Rob Parker wrote:

> 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
>
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