Originally Posted by
Majuki
As for international roaming, it is EDGE in theory, but most of the time you can get better speeds.
More specifically, it's 3G data, rate limited to EDGE speeds. This in practice is a lot faster than EDGE ever was. I've found it just fine for most things, including email, web surfing, Google maps, and apps. It's not going to be suitable for media downloads, like from the iTunes store, or app purchases/updates in most cases.