Re: Voda SIM refusing to roam

"Peter" <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I wonder if anybody can shine some light on this strange behaviour.
>
> I have a collection of Voda PAYG SIM cards, which work (with and
> without roaming) in normal phones, in a PCMCIA GPRS adaptor in a
> laptop, and also in a GPRS/3G mini-PCI card in a laptop. In short,
> just as they should.
>
> However, I have a HP4700 PDA with an Audiovox RTM-8000 compactflash
> GPRS adaptor. As far as I can tell, this has never worked when outside
> the UK, and I can't see why.
>
> The PDA (pocket/pc is crap) shows no error message; just says it could
> not connect.
>
> All I can think of is that somehow the CF adaptor's firmware prevents
> roaming, but is that possible? I thought roaming was purely a function
> of the SIM card and what features are enabled on that account on the
> Vodafone computer.
>
> Voda are no help, of course. Their cust service don't know anything.
>
> Can anyone recommend a CF GPRS adaptor which will definitely work
> abroad?

Check the configuration of the device - there are lots of options about
roaming normally including whether to road at all, preferred networks and
bands etc.