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Martin wrote:

1. Get a simple, unlocked GSM phone on ebay.

2. When you get to your country of destination, go to a mobile phone
store (e.g. Vodafone) and buy a SIM card with prepaid minutes. Do this
for each country.

If you get a Vodafone SIM card and set it to International you get 45
minutes of foreign calls plus 200 free SMS free valid for a month for
every EUR 20 of credit you buy.

Free SIM card sent to an address via
http://landing.vodafone.nl/281112-Fr...id=EMAIL&cms_c
hannel_id=ECRM

Isn't Vodaphone one of the poorer options in terms of pricing and
coverage?


Anyways, these days, you also have to consider data as well.

There's a proposal by the EU to abolish all roaming fees within the EU.
They want to see pan-European carriers and alliances form, so that more
investment is made to improve the networks.

So the member states would have to approve but the industry is against
it and is expected to lobby the individual national govts. to reject the
proposal.

If approved, presumably smaller carriers would get squeezed out or lose
customers who want to travel across borders regularly.