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I use Ipass. This is an international roaming scheme for both wireless and dial-up (it started as a dial-up roaming scheme back in the 1990s). It comes free with my home broadband package, but can also be bought stand-alone for a small monthly subscription. Actual usage is charged on a pay-as-you-go basis and is added to my monthly broadband bill. A worldwide list of Ipass resellers can be found here

heres another option with no monthly fees: http://www.bamnet.com/

When there is no WiFi and I absolutely must have email access, I can use my T-Mobile RAZR as a wireless modem for my laptop throughout the world (except maybe Japan). The last time was sitting on the tarmac at MUC. Is that what you need, email access?

Quote: Originally Posted by redburgundy When there is no WiFi and I absolutely must have email access, I can use my T-Mobile RAZR as a wireless modem for my laptop throughout the world (except maybe Japan). The last time was sitting on the tarmac at MUC. Is that what you need, email access? you may want to get a blackberry plan with unlimited international data plan should come out to about $60-70/month

Quote: Originally Posted by cpx you may want to get a blackberry plan with unlimited international data plan should come out to about $60-70/month This is a hydra response. First, the guy from Verizon didn't know what he was talking about. Verizon offers an international wireless dataplan with a hybrid card that does EVDO in the US and UMTS in Europe. The plan gives you unlimited (using Verizon's horid definition of the term) in the...

I apologize if this has been covered before, but could not find it using the search function. I would like to find a wireless broadband internet service which will allow me to roam internationally. I will mainly use it in the US, but need to be able to crank it up overseas when I don't have other options and connect. Verizon and Sprint/Nextel CSRs both told me that they cannot do that. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, TJ

I just asked about this on prepaid gsm... Some countries offer UMTS which is fairly fast. EDGE and GPRS is fairly slow though - about par on dialup... http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/ind...?showtopic=1718

What do you want to use the broadband for? Browsing? File transfers? E-mail? Is this a want or a need ? How many countries are you going to visit and how long will you have in each one? In general, my advice is to buy local prepaid cards. Cingular and T-mobile can do what you want but you're talking about $15/mb. Quite a few countries offer prepaid solutions that are reasonable. Vodafone in Spain offers 1GB data for €60. Compared to 4MB...