THOUGHT: No love for Inbound Roamers - where are the Prepaid plans for Mobile Data?

Published: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:01:07 +0200

All
right, I've just arrived at Seattle for the annual Microsoft MVP Summit. While
I'm normally fine to use my
Vodafone
WebSessions SIM card for international data roaming, unfortunately Vodafone
isn't offering WebSessions in the U.S. because they don't have any GSM/UMTS
shares here (but are a shareholder of Verizon Wireless only). Since I will be in
Seattle again next month, I've visited

AT&T as well as

T-Mobile shops to figure out what my prepaid mobile data options are and
guess what - there are no options! Unlike most (or all?) European carriers, non
of the U.S. carriers offers prepaid SIMs which can be used for real mobile data as
well.
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