Leeber if you do buy one and it works let us all know and we can do the refer a friend thing to spread the wealth a little bit!!
that was indeed my plan unless someone else beats me to it.
Leeber if you do buy one and it works let us all know and we can do the refer a friend thing to spread the wealth a little bit!!
Thought about going for this when we upgraded to the Tech Pack BUT as we travel to Europe a lot understand dear old Vodafone would charge an arm and a leg for this service. The option being buy local Sims which I cannot be bothered with. Anyone found a cheep solution for Euro travellers?.
I have no intention of paying Vodafone £3 a day. We are in Europe circa 100 days a year mainly personal and use local wifi or as now I am using an SFR sim in my iPad which cost me 9 Euros a month!
It is about time mobile operators stopped cheating us in the uk!,,
obviously, the euro traveller isn't designed for people like you. just get a local operator sim.
it costs billions to build and millions a day to run a mobile network. people forget that. tariff pricing should be simpler though and agreed its about time the operators joined forces to simplifying charging across euro borders.
I've now got my ovivo sim through and it seems to work a treat in my smartphone, haven't had an advert yet!
Cemerson - have popped you a mail
Have you got your car yet, Itguy? Had a chance to put the sim in?
no, but that's still what a full sized SIM is! The one people usually call 'standard' size is actually the mini-SIM, and is what you need for the A3 (assuming the 4G version is the same, which I don't know for sure).
Oh and I used a standard sim
So I got one of these PAYG 3 sim's, where its 1p mb. Put it into the sim card slot and try Audi connect in the car. Seems to to a loading thing then says every time tho service in unavailable. I check the data usage on the menu options and it has used some data and I can use Google Earth on the sat nag (I assume this uses data). Am I doing something wrong?
Oh and I used a standard sim, have no idea where you lot are getting nano and micro sims from.
That is very strange re Audi Connect. Just a thought, are you sure you have good 3G signal where you're trying to use it? The satellite imagery might be cached, but obviously Audi Connect needs a real time connection in order for it to work. My 3 PAYG sim works absolutely fine with it. I love this sim/deal. The best bit is, you get 150mb free when you top up £10 and I'm still using that. I have done 450 miles (approx) and it's used about 75mb of my free allowance. If I had paid for it, then it would have cost me 75p. Not bad.
I def have 3g signal cause it says on the screen. I have also occasionally seen 4g come up to. Just wandering should i put the sim into a phone before putting into the car?
Is it easy enough to see data used and credit remaining (assuming payg) from the car menus?