Originally Posted by losta

I'm sure if they were doing something illegal AT&T would sue them in a minute. I am trying to decide if I want to go with iphonetrip for $285 (3 weeks in Italy) or AT&T international data for $199+. I know with iphonetrip it would be a finite amount and I wouldn't have to worry about data usage at all. But I wonder if it would just be easier to stick with my AT&T.

How could there be a potential for a megabill, you remove your AT&T sim card?

Originally Posted by wco81

For Italy, definitely go with local SIM. They have some of the lowest prepaid data prices anywhere, with good fast networks, usually better than the Wifi offered at many hotels.

It is complicated though, as you have to get a codice fiscale to get a SIM.

Info. at prepaidgsm.net.

It sounds like iPhonetrip would be competitive for France and maybe Spain and when you're going to more than one country.

But for a single country with a competitive mobile market like Italy, you can save a lot of money, probably get away with 20 Euros or so for a couple of weeks.

iPhonetrip would be more useful too if you can use their SIMs on Mifis to get multiple devices online, which is what XCom Global offers. XCom appears to be using local SIMs though so if you go to more than one country, then it becomes way more expensive.