Travel with Treo 750 WM6 UK & Ireland??

[bille]

I have to go to the UK in a week for about 3 weeks and want to take my Treo 750 WM6, I haven’t used it outside of Australia before and have heard some horror stories about costs if leaving any mobile on International Roaming.

The mobile is unlocked so my thoughts are to get a local UK pre-paid Sim card.

I have to go to London, Bedford, Belfast and possibly across the channel to Paris for a couple of days.
Does anyone have any advice i.e;

1. Is there a single Telco who covers the three regions?

2. Is there a single Telco that covers UK and Ireland as Paris leg may not happen?

3. Are there pre-paid data plans available in UK?

4. I find setting it to Manual GSM (E) works best for where I am in Australia i.e. GSM(900+1800)+UMTS(2100+850) which is the best for UK & Ireland can anyone give me the best settings for the UK & Ireland?

5. I guess I’m after any advice or help anyone can provide BEFORE I leave Australia.


Thanks in advance for reading and any help offered.

[pederb]

Here you can just call AT&T who is my provider and tell them that you are going overseas and they will give you the unlock code so you can buy local prepaid phonecards (cheap)

[jfa]

Since you already unlocked all you need is a gsm prepaid card. Ther are members of this forum and other treo forums who live in England and they should be able to chim in if they are here at ET and let you know. If not go to the treonauts forum and join there or send tazuk or csward a pm and they should be able to help you they are both inb England on vodaphone but should be able to find out what you need to know.