O2 european Travel

[Anonymous]

I used this service a couple of years ago.  The service says Unlimited Data but speed may vary with usage.   This was in Greece roaming on OTE (Cosmote)

I found that after a short time the speed changed to a crawl - and that was it for the day.  I thought it was just Greece - the country was in a state of collapse.  But other users on the next door boat had a full speed signla on 3G much better than you get in the UK.

I got a very wishy washy anwer from O2 saying that daily usage was capped at 100MB.  According to my phone logs, I never got anthything near that.

Is this a common problem? Daily connectivity is essential for Marine forecast email etc.  Or would I be better off buying a Cosmote Data Sim.

[MI5]

Buy a local sim without doubt.
O2 travel data is completely useless!

[jonsie]

Data speeds seem to vary between 0.1 and 0.2.....

[Anonymous]

In Turkey I use a local Turkcel sim (data only) 15GB cost 80TL (£10).  I make all my calls using the mifi hotspot from it using TUGO.   

I was thinking of buying an O2 data sim and using it in the same way to cover Greece Croatia and Italy.  The price looks OK and I really dont  use very much.  But I cannot get a straight answer out of O2 as to when they throttle you back (it was unusable in Greece as if Os was treated as a second class supplier by Cosmote).   

Looking at Cosmotes website, either I dont understand it or they are very very expensive!

[MI5]

100Mb on contracts is supposed to be the slow down point (50Mb on PAYG) but real life experience tells us different.
As I said, it's pretty much unusable except for downloading email headers.

[jonsie]

Local sim is always the way to go. I have one here and get 10GB for around £6 depends on the exchange rate. Compare that to an unusable £4.99 a day or £6/MB. No brainer !