Comment Re:Never really worked out how it roams (Score 1) 64
If you put in another SIM the Pogo works fine as a phone, but any attempt to view web pages takes you to Pogo's Registration page where you have to sign up for 7.99 UKP a month using your credit card. Then everything works.
Roaming via GSM works by calling Pogo's proxy server in the UK, so it's expensive. But roaming via GPRS is really cheap, because you're connecting to the local network's GPRS gateway, which forwards your packets to the Pogo server for free over the web. The problem is getting GPRS roaming to work at all! But that's the networks' fault. Things are improving now that there's a lot more GPRS phones out there.
>CrapShark (this message written in the UK on a Pogo!)
Roaming via GSM works by calling Pogo's proxy server in the UK, so it's expensive. But roaming via GPRS is really cheap, because you're connecting to the local network's GPRS gateway, which forwards your packets to the Pogo server for free over the web. The problem is getting GPRS roaming to work at all! But that's the networks' fault. Things are improving now that there's a lot more GPRS phones out there.
>CrapShark (this message written in the UK on a Pogo!)
