GPRS roaming

[Insider]

For the lucky ones - Send us a picture message of a sunset over the beach...

MTN will commence commercial GPRS Roaming with the following networks:

Cable & Wireless, Anguilla

Cable & Wireless, Antigua

Cable & Wireless, Barbados

Cable & Wireless, Cayman

Cable & Wireless, Dominica

Cable & Wireless, Grenada

Cable & Wireless, Jamaica

Cable & Wireless, Montserrat

Cable & Wireless, St Vincent and the Grenadines

Cable & Wireless, St. Kitts & Nevis

Cable & Wireless, St. Lucia

Cable & Wireless, Turks & Caicos

as from Wednesday, 17 August 2005

 

[Insider]

More networks

MTN will commence commercial GPRS Roaming with the following network:

Bharti Tele_Ventures (Haryana), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Uttar Pradesh West), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Punjab), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Delhi), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Himachal Pradesh), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Rajasthan), India

as from Wednesday, 24 August 2005

And

Cellcom, Israel

as from Thursday, 25 August 2005

 

[Mams]

Cost per MB when roaming?

 

[Insider]

Big bucks on the European networks.

You pay an MTN component (R2/MB max) and then their component (around 6 Euro/MB).

It depends on the network.

 

[Insider]

More networks

MTN will commence commercial GPRS Roaming with the following networks:

Mobilkom, Austria
as from Tuesday, 30 August 2005

and

Orange, UK
as from Tuesday, 30 August 2005

MTN will commence commercial 3G Roaming with the following network:

Mobilkom, Austria
as from Tuesday, 30 August 2005

 

[Sig_sys_7]

MTN will commence commercial GPRS Roaming with the following network:

Bharti Tele_Ventures (Haryana), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Uttar Pradesh West), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Punjab), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Delhi), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Himachal Pradesh), India
Bharti Tele_Ventures (Rajasthan), India

as from Wednesday, 24 August 2005

And

Cellcom, Israel

as from Thursday, 25 August 2005

About time Cellcom was added.
I was sick of orange.

 

[Insider]

MTN will commence commercial GPRS Roaming with the following networks:

Hutchison, Hong Kong
as from Tuesday, 1 September 2005

and

Smartone-Vodafone, Hong Kong
as from Tuesday, 30 August 2005

 

[Insider]

More GPRS partners

MTN will commence commercial GPRS Roaming with the following networks:

Bharti Tele-Ventures, *India
(covering the following Circles; Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh0 Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Chennai)
as from****** Friday, 28 October 2005

Oi (TNL), *Brazil
as from****** Friday, 28 October 2005

New World Mobility, *Hong Kong
as from****** Tuesday, 1 November 2005

Telfort, *Netherlands
as from****** Thursday, 3 November 2005

and

China Mobile, *China
as from****** Tuesday, 8 November 2005

Roaming Agreements(Voice) Active: VC = 311 , MTN = 391, CellC = 320
GPRS Agreements Active: VC = 72 , MTN = 77, CellC = Unknown

 

[murray654]

I see from MTN SP site MTN have a GPRS roaming agreement with VoxMobile Luxembourg. If someone is already abroad, how can they provision their phone for MMS if they forgot to do it before leaving. Do they use *123# like they would right here?

 

[Insider]

*123# will not work while roaming. The application determines your phone type from the IMEI which can only be retrieved from the MTN network MSCs.

You will have to set it up via the call centre by providing them with the phone type and MSISDN.

PS. I would not want to pay the bill for holding on for a call centre agent from Luxembourgh though!