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We are living in Australia but heading to Europe to campervan around for about two years. I am looking for suitable phone/data or data only packages that won't cost an arm and a leg. We are expecting to free camp quite a bit so won't be near WiFi hotspots. Coverage would need to be all over continental Europe as well as the UK.
We won't have a residential address over there which might make it hard to sign up with many of the providers or maybe this isn't a problem?
We have an Iphone 6 and an Iphone 5 as well as a small WiFi device which we can put other SIM cards into. We would want to be able to tether to our computers from the phones. If we could find up around 500MB /day of data that would be good. Phone calls would not be made very often and could be over Skype phone service.
Thanks for any assistance.
Alan
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