Prepaid SIM or roam in UK??

On 2007-04-02, Purple Moose <purple-moose DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the great info!! It looks like Vodafone offers some
> decent deals. Are they a separate network from TMO? I know TMO bought
> Vodafone here in the US.

Vodafone is separate, and by reputation has very good coverage in the UK.
Vodafone owns not-quite-half of Verizon Wireless.

> Anyway, if this link works, it shows a Vodafone card via eBay that seems to
> include all the right stuff....

That looks fine to me. The thing I have no knowledge of is whether
you get data access on prepaid and, if so, what it costs. The data
bit is the (only) thing where T-Mobile UK might have an advantage.

Dennis Ferguson

Purple Moose <purple-moose DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns9905CDE82A911purplemoosegmailcom@66.250.146.128:

> Are they a separate network from TMO? I know TMO bought
> Vodafone here in the US.

DOH!! A quick net lookup and I found that Vodafone owns 1/2 of Verizon.
My mistake.

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In article <Xns9905CDE82A911purplemoosegmailcom RemoveThis @66.250.146.128>, Purple Moose wrote:

> Thanks for all the great info!! It looks like Vodafone offers some
> decent deals. Are they a separate network from TMO? I know TMO bought
> Vodafone here in the US.

Yes, they're separate, and no, T-Mo did not buy Vodafone here.

As far as I know, Vodafone is still the 45% partner in Verizon
Wireless, Verizon being the 55% partner. Vodafone bought AirTouch in
the late 90's and merged it with Verizon's former GTE Wireless and
Bell Atlantic properties. T-Mobile had already bought VoiceStream,
which at the time was the #1 US GSM network, and rebranded the
service.

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