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Mobile Phones in France
Hello all,
I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. In Australia I can purchase a "Red" Vodafone card which is pre paid and can be toped up allowing me to either make or receive national or international calls. Is this the case in France? I have tried their website, but alas it's in French LOL, funny that. Anyway I have a "unlocked phone" and will be using the phone very little. I am not keen on using Global roaming with my own carrier as a friend recently returned from France having done the same thing and had many problems. Thanks In advance Paul |
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Op Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:56:46 +1100 schreef PB&JM:
Hello all, I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. In Australia I can purchase a "Red" Vodafone card which is pre paid and can be toped up allowing me to either make or receive national or international calls. Is this the case in France? I have tried their website, but alas it's in French LOL, funny that. Try this url, it's in english for foreign customers staying in France: http://www.sfr.com/en/index.jsp. Otherwise, your local vendor should be able to tell you if your card works in France. BTW, my (subscribed, Dutch) mobile phone offers the poosibilitie to choose different providers in France. If available, bouytel might be cheaper. Peter Squat Toilets, travel guide about France http://www.hurktoilet.nl/index-en.html |
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"PB&JM" skrev i melding
... Hello all, I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. - - - - Hi. As long as the phone is unlocked your by far cheapest option is to buy a prepaid card locally, put the SIM into your existing phone and after activation you have a local French phone number and may receive and make phonecalls. From past experience I know that some of these activation procedures may be a bit difficult if you do not master the local language, since all messages coming back to you tend never (!) to be anything than what the natives speak. Just buy a card anyway, it does not much matter which one, and have somebody help you. Your hotel receptionist or really anybody will be happy to help. You should be able to buy this already when arriving at CDG, and they will certainly be able to help you there. With a local card you do not pay roaming charges, which may be prohibitive. The whole thing is really ludicrous. If somebody in France calls your Australian phonenumber that call is first routed to your home network on the other side of the planet and then back to France again. Since the French phone company knows in the first place that the number in question is a mobile phone number, they should be able to send a request to the aussie network and ask where that the phone is currently located and place the call directly there. This is not the way GSM has been defined and how it works, and there are probably economic reasons (how to make money) for that. IH change freejunk to freesurf for mail |
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I have bought an Orange SIM in the past (although I've let it expire) and
the Orange shop staff have been very accomodating in respect of getting it to work. Lee. "PB&JM" wrote in message ... Hello all, I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. In Australia I can purchase a "Red" Vodafone card which is pre paid and can be toped up allowing me to either make or receive national or international calls. Is this the case in France? I have tried their website, but alas it's in French LOL, funny that. Anyway I have a "unlocked phone" and will be using the phone very little. I am not keen on using Global roaming with my own carrier as a friend recently returned from France having done the same thing and had many problems. Thanks In advance Paul |
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SFR do that, click :
http://www.sfr.com/en/index.jsp Eric "PB&JM" a écrit dans le message de ... Hello all, I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. In Australia I can purchase a "Red" Vodafone card which is pre paid and can be toped up allowing me to either make or receive national or international calls. Is this the case in France? I have tried their website, but alas it's in French LOL, funny that. Anyway I have a "unlocked phone" and will be using the phone very little. I am not keen on using Global roaming with my own carrier as a friend recently returned from France having done the same thing and had many problems. Thanks In advance Paul |
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Will be in Paris for a week in April.
I checked http://www.sfr.com/en/index.jsp and I get the impression that I can buy a "chip" (prepaid card) for my Nokia 6610 which I purchased in Italy in 2002. I use the Wind service and have an Italy number. Am I correct in assuming that the French "chip" will give me a French number? ABC "Syrah" wrote in message ... SFR do that, click : http://www.sfr.com/en/index.jsp Eric "PB&JM" a écrit dans le message de ... Hello all, I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. In Australia I can purchase a "Red" Vodafone card which is pre paid and can be toped up allowing me to either make or receive national or international calls. Is this the case in France? I have tried their website, but alas it's in French LOL, funny that. Anyway I have a "unlocked phone" and will be using the phone very little. I am not keen on using Global roaming with my own carrier as a friend recently returned from France having done the same thing and had many problems. Thanks In advance Paul |
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For what it is worth, when I am in France I have a mobile phone, Orange,
and I get refills at a TABAC. They issue paper tickers which have the number printed on them. e ABC wrote: Will be in Paris for a week in April. I checked http://www.sfr.com/en/index.jsp and I get the impression that I can buy a "chip" (prepaid card) for my Nokia 6610 which I purchased in Italy in 2002. I use the Wind service and have an Italy number. Am I correct in assuming that the French "chip" will give me a French number? ABC "Syrah" wrote in message ... SFR do that, click : http://www.sfr.com/en/index.jsp Eric "PB&JM" a écrit dans le message de .. . Hello all, I will be travelling to France at the end of the week and have a question regarding "pre-paid" cards for mobile phones. In Australia I can purchase a "Red" Vodafone card which is pre paid and can be toped up allowing me to either make or receive national or international calls. Is this the case in France? I have tried their website, but alas it's in French LOL, funny that. Anyway I have a "unlocked phone" and will be using the phone very little. I am not keen on using Global roaming with my own carrier as a friend recently returned from France having done the same thing and had many problems. Thanks In advance Paul |
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Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in message ...
(ABC) wrote in om: I get the impression that I can buy a "chip" (prepaid card) for my Nokia 6610 which I purchased in Italy in 2002. I use the Wind service and have an Italy number. This is correct as a general rule, _unless_ the Nokia was SIM-locked to Wind. If it is should be evident from the paperwork that came with your Wind contract. My Italian cousin gave me his "chip" in 2001 and said that I can just buy a phone and use it. That's what I did. Am I correct in assuming that the French "chip" will give me a French number? Yes. Incidentally the chip is called a SIM, and it's the "heart" of the GSM mobile phone system. The SIM knows your phone number, the carrier company, its home country, and the pricing model you're subscribed to. It instructs the phone accordingly when inserted. The phone itself is just a disposable piece of hardware, without a SIM it can do nothing. Especially it has no phone number hardwired into it. Regards This trip I will be in Paris just a week, therefore, I won't use all the funds that I put into the service. Can I just use it when I come back again (that's how it works in Italy) or will it expire? I see myself having envelopes marked "France", "Italy", "Germany" etc. with these SIMs for each country :).... Thanks, ABC |
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In article , ABC
wrote: Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in message ... (ABC) wrote in om: I get the impression that I can buy a "chip" (prepaid card) for my Nokia 6610 which I purchased in Italy in 2002. I use the Wind service and have an Italy number. This is correct as a general rule, _unless_ the Nokia was SIM-locked to Wind. If it is should be evident from the paperwork that came with your Wind contract. My Italian cousin gave me his "chip" in 2001 and said that I can just buy a phone and use it. That's what I did. Am I correct in assuming that the French "chip" will give me a French number? Yes. Incidentally the chip is called a SIM, and it's the "heart" of the GSM mobile phone system. The SIM knows your phone number, the carrier company, its home country, and the pricing model you're subscribed to. It instructs the phone accordingly when inserted. The phone itself is just a disposable piece of hardware, without a SIM it can do nothing. Especially it has no phone number hardwired into it. Regards This trip I will be in Paris just a week, therefore, I won't use all the funds that I put into the service. Can I just use it when I come back again (that's how it works in Italy) or will it expire? I see myself having envelopes marked "France", "Italy", "Germany" etc. with these SIMs for each country :).... Thanks, ABC My Italian SIM card is good for a year: just before expiration date I will add a minimal amount to the card so that its life will be extended til I return to Italy next time. In contrast, my US card is good only for a month and the recharging is more expensive .. and rates are higher and incoming calls are not free as in Italy. grrrr billfrogg |
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