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The World Mobile Net Q&A Forum

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:14:45 +1000

I've just launched a new feature: the World Mobile Net Q&A Forum. If you have any questions about internet access when travelling overseas, ask them here and hopefully other members of the community will be able to give you advice.

New countries: Western Samoa and Lebanon

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:23:27 +1000

We have now added two new countries to World Mobile Net: Western Samoa and Lebanon. Western Samoa is served by Digicel, and Lebanon has two mobile providers, Alfa and MTC Touch, whose mobile broadband prepaid offers are identical at this point in time.

New country: Serbia

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:32:24 +1100

Serbia is the latest addition to the World Mobile Net database. With three providers covering the entire country, there's a lot of competition, and as a result, prices are low. Just 7 euro for 1Gb of data for two months? That's pretty good.

New country: Cameroon

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:50:09 +1000

I've just uploaded data for Cameroon. There's only one provider who advertises that they provide mobile internet, and sadly, it's GPRS/EDGE only - in a limited number of locations, and the prices are aren't all that great.

Review: Huawei U8150 Ideos Android phone

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:12:30 +1000

At under $200, Huawei's U8150 Ideos Android smartphone was just too good a price to resist; I'd been wanting an Android phone for a while, mostly for development, but also as a portable internet device. And at just 102g, it was lighter than my current Nokia - I had to have it. That was four months ago. So, how has it panned out?