Contractos del mobile a non Ewan, si

I’m still really quite annoyed at not being able to get hold of a Vodafone Spain USB modem. Despite what it says on the website, the lady in the shop down the road was not having any of it.

She didn’t respond well to my pigeon Spanish at all.

I thought of thrusting my credit card at her and pointing to the USB modem in the good old British way but I gave up reasonably quickly.

In future, I reckon the way to go is to get the chaps at Spainsim.com to sort you out. I didn’t really have enough notice for them as they’ll need a day or so to post it to your hotel.

I looked in the Orange shop opposite the Vodafone one. There was no mention whatsoever of data so I didn’t bother even getting engaged in contractos discussions.

I spent most of yesterday trying to get my sodding E61i to work properly. I’ve captured a lot of the carnage from this stag weekend via the E61i’s pretty efficient camera, however I feel like I’ve been walking about with no arms. I can’t believe that 3UK have no data roaming agreements. Surely that’s not the case?

Well I went and had a look at 3UK’s Spanish Coverage. Sure enough. I’m nailed. NOT data coverage.

That’s just hugely, hugely disappointing. Whatever the underlying policy, it’s crazy. I depended on being able to use my 3UK sim properly — and that means both voice and data to me. I was expecting to be nailed for stupid-amounts-per-meg.

Still, here is my solution: I swapped my T-Mobile SIM into my E61i and reconfigured Good Mobile Messaging to work again on that handset with the T-Mobile sim. So all is good in the world.