Question by party girl pauline: Can you use 3G mobile broadband in Spain?
I am going to Galicia in northern Spain for 6 months, and was wondering if you can use mobile broadband there.
Best answer:
Answer by sewrobb
Where ever there is a mobile network you can have broadband.
However DO NOT take a dongle from the UK and use it. You will be paying for International Data Transfer rates which can be up to £4.50 per Mb. People have come home to bills up to £20,000 for just doing that as has been shown on BBC’s Watchdog in the past!
Get a Pay as You Go dongle locally and use that.
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Agree with other answers, but Vodafone’s mobile broadband is £8.50+vat per day when you take it abroad, which works out around the same, or cheaper than using an internet cafe or a hotspot.
Might be ok to keep you going for a few days, but the best bet will be to get a local pay as you go mobile broadband service when you arrive. Spain has some of the cheapest rates in Europe.
If you have a contract with them dont use it in spain you will get a horrendous bill when you get home. It will work regardless of it being contract or pay as you go, but you will have your credit eaten away quiclky, or else youll get a big bill. LIke sewerrob said try using a local one when you get there.