Talk:France/@comment-217.20.178.217-20160317182928

I got Free mobile SIM from automated vending machine in Chambery in 10 minutes. I intended to use it for our holiday in French Alps, according to their coverage map we should have had 3G at the place we were staying. In fact, phone could see 3G 'Free' network but download speeds were non-existent, we constantly got 0 (!) on speedtest. Then I had an idea to switch phone to Orange network (as stated here Free mobile has roaming agreement with them). Then speedtest showed decent speeds (1-5 Mbps down, 0.5 - 1.5 up) but some sites (e.g. Facebook) just took forever to load! Though we used tethering and on the master device sometimes it worked okay, sometimes not. I had constant speed problems with majority of the sites on the laptop. Seems like they are doing this on purpose to avoid huge Orange roaming bills. I have 50 Gb of super slow internet such nonsense! According to some forums Free should work fast on 4G so I'm looking forward to testing it in Paris. To sum it up: Free 4G should be good but not tested by me, Free 3G can be a problem out of big cities, Orange 3G roaming has issues.