Roaming Abroad

Does any UK network offer special deals, options or benefits in connection
with overseas data roaming charges? I'm especially interested in USA, which
means roaming to ATT or T-Mobile or some virtual networks that use their
infrastructure. Or does anyone know of an affordable (cheap) US data plan for
small usage (maybe 100 MB per month or so) without an annual contract?

Tony

On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:06:18 -0500, Dennis Ferguson <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> There is nothing else that I know of. For a traveler getting data service in
> the US sucks. Straight Talk service on AT&T is the best possibility I've seen
> mentioned anywhere, but it seems to be science fiction at this point.

Thanks for the suggestions. I just took a look at the Straight Talk site and
it seems that service is not available without using a phone that they
supply. I entered the IMEI of one of my own phones into the activation site,
where I presume one would buy a plan https://www.straighttalk.com/Activate,
and was told "The Serial Number you entered was not found in our system."

Tony

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:48:51 -0500, Dennis Ferguson <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> Yes, they are still selling CDMA service only on the web site (US CDMA
> phones don't have SIM cards, the carrier activates the phone itself which
> is why it wants the phone's serial number). Oh, well.

Straight Talk's present incarnation appears to be a virtual network using
Verizon Wireless towers - hence CDMA. If and when ATT Mobility starts to
provide bandwidth to Walmart for its Straight Talk then maybe those ATT SIMs
will work in my unlocked phones.

Tony