Here I am sat in beautiful San Casciano in the middle of Italy just south of Florence. I managed to find a little bar to sit in whilst I gaze out across the rolling fields of Tuscany. It’s siesta time at the minute — most of the shops are shut and, crucially, so is the only decent place that serves pizza.
I thought I’d use this opportunity to test out the 3UK USB Modem that I got a few weeks go. If you recall, it’s a tenner a month for a ‘fair use’ gig of data per month. Since I’m in Italy, I get to take advantage of 3’s ‘3 Like Home’ plan (at least, I sincerely HOPE I do with the Modem package) meaning that any data I use here in Italy is included as normal — since I’m roaming on 3 Italy.
If I was roaming in a country without an incumbent 3 network, I would not be feeling so smug. In fact this blog post would have cost a good amount of cash paid to T-Mobile to cover the data costs.
I’m pleased to report that there is, generally speaking, a super ‘3 ITA’ (”3 Italy”) signal, wherever I go. My Nokia E61i, currently with my main 3UK account, has been loving it. I’ve been Google Mapping, emailing and browsing like-no-tomorrow.
The data speeds here in the middle of nowhere (although Leonardo Da Vinci was born somewhere near here I think) are excellent and compare well to the UK speeds. Love it.
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Comment by nathan on 20 October 2007:
I used it back in August when in Rome, they had 3.5G coverage which meant super fast access with no roaming costs!
Comment by Robert on 3 March 2008:
I have just recently been in Sardinia. I found connecting a little difficult but once connected the modem operated well. Speed is a little slow there at the moment for graphics files, but after all the hassles of getting the modem running on my Apple Powerbook in the first instance it was a relief that it worked.