Helen

Have a look at www.Net2Roam.com who are owned by GRIC (www.gric.com).
I use www.gric.com when travelling in Europe but my ISP subscription
already provides this. My son took a short term subscription with
Net2Roam on a trip to China and it worked very well.

HTH
Martin Lunt

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> At 07:43 AM 15/05/2003 +0200, Florian wrote:
> >Helen,
> >
> > > Does anyone know of an ISP which offers short-term dialup
Internet
> >services
> > > for strange foreign visitors, with points-of-presence in
Frankfurt, Fulda,
> > > Salzburg and Vienna? Preferably that I can subscribe to via
the Internet,
> > > from here in rural Australia, before I have to depart for the
airport
> >(less
> > > than 24 hours yet).
> >
> >Don't know about the cities in Austria, in Germany we have
Internet by Call,
> >to which you don't have to subscribe.
> >Following a few:
> >
> >Name: Call2Surf
> >Phone: 019193154
> >Username: two@c...
> >Password: two
>
> Thanks for these. Using the above as an example, would I set up
my modem
> to dial-up to that number? And that would get me connected
straight to the
> Internet? So that I could then go and clear my mailboxes, just as
I do
> with my normal ISP account at home?
>
> Sorry for the dumb questions. We don't have anything similar to
that here...
>
> regards,
> Helen