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Data roaming in France

When travelling to another country, the cost of roaming on your smartphone can be downright insane – you can rack up thousands of dollars in charges in a week without even knowing it, just by having your handset access your email on a timely basis.

For some of us, access to email is important – it even outweighs the need to access voice services. On most trips, I usually carry two phones – my Nokia E71 which is the emergency batphone and my Nokia E75 which I use for email, navigation, facebook and other on-the-go services. Voice communication on the E75 isn’t important – having access to data is and sadly my carrier doesn’t want to cater to users like me (it impacts their bottom line).

On a recent trip to France, I came accross the same issue – do I spend alot of money to be connected or do I find a better way? Thankfully, with a little bit of research, I was able to find a new service provided by S FR which could be workable.

Enter ‘la Clé Internet 3G+ sans engagement’ … or the 3G Internet stick by S FR with no contract requirement.

Obtaining the stick wasn’t without some discouraging interactions with the staff at some stores. (more after the jump)