Does anyone know of a reasonably priced French Sim card, preferably pay as you go and where any balance isn't lost. I did buy a United mobile card, but tho' it seemed a good idea at the time-- no charge for receiving calls the snag is that the number is a Lichtenstein mobile  so not very good for people phoning you. Fortunately we have 2 phones so we can use this card up for outgoing calls but it would be good to get a French one. Anyway be warned it is important to know what kind of  number you receive with the Sim. It's a bit like the service for getting faxes by email-- no charge to the receiver but an0870 number for the sender!!

reggie wrote on Jul 21^st, 2006 at 1:25pm:

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced French Sim card, preferably pay as you go and where any balance isn't lost. I did buy a United mobile card, but tho' it seemed a good idea at the time-- no charge for receiving calls the snag is that the number is a Lichtenstein mobile  so not very good for people phoning you. Fortunately we have 2 phones so we can use this card up for outgoing calls but it would be good to get a French one. Anyway be warned it is important to know what kind of  number you receive with the Sim. It's a bit like the service for getting faxes by email-- no charge to the receiver but an0870 number for the sender!!

A French friend of mine has usedthe 'Ma Puce' option at http://www.debitel.fr/ but I don't know if you need to be a French resident. As a true follower of this site you will wish to avoid the 'No. Azur' but there is an e-mail address.

By the way, if like me you use eFax as your fax-e-mail provider you can now ask them for an 01x number thereby striking another blow for freedom and avoiding the 0870 trap for your correspondents

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced French Sim card, preferably pay as you go and where any balance isn't lost. I did buy a United mobile card,


why dont u try one of the new free roaming companies like

www.simplytravelsim.com
www.0044.co.uk/&;
www.sim4travel.com/

madeleine wrote on Jul 21^st, 2006 at 3:25pm:

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced French Sim card, preferably pay as you go and where any balance isn't lost. I did buy a United mobile card, why dont u try one of the new free roaming companies like

He already has one of those.

France has 3 main networks and about a dozen virtual operators. The tariffs are not as competitive as here, so I'd suggest callback with it, to make calls from 10 or 12 pence a minute

Most French SIMs are shorter lived than we are used to, depending on top-ups to stay valid. But NRJ Mobile has a similar condition to UK SIMs: use every 6 months

Study them at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/france.html

andy9 wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 2:19am:

Most French SIMs are shorter lived than we are used to, depending on top-ups to stay valid. But NRJ Mobile has a similar condition to UK SIMs: use every 6 months Study them at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/france.html

I believe NRJ may have shortened the validity condition, now similar to the others


apologies for bumping the thread, I meant to merely edit the other post