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| Thread ID: 69556 | 2006-06-05 10:35:00 | Europe & cellphones from NZ | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 460637 | 2006-06-05 10:35:00 | I am a Telecom customer (stop laughing! :D ) and I am travelling to Europe later this year for three weeks. I’m doing a bit of a tiki-tour from Germany into Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and back to Germany. I’m spending about a third of my time away in the Czech Republic. My question is: would I be better off getting a Telecom GSM loaner (which I believe is just a diversion from the 027 NZ number) or buying a GSM phone off TradeMe and getting a Czech (or other European) prepaid sim card? Would the GSM phone I bought here in NZ need to be ‘unlocked’? And how could I tell if it was unlocked? The use of the phone would be mainly for texting friends in Europe and maybe the odd call home… I wouldn’t be receiving many (if any) calls from NZ. Any data gratefully received... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 460638 | 2006-06-05 11:11:00 | I am a Telecom customer (stop laughing! :D ) and I am travelling to Europe later this year for three weeks . I’m doing a bit of a tiki-tour from Germany into Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and back to Germany . I’m spending about a third of my time away in the Czech Republic . My question is: would I be better off getting a Telecom GSM loaner (which I believe is just a diversion from the 027 NZ number) or buying a GSM phone off TradeMe and getting a Czech (or other European) prepaid sim card? Would the GSM phone I bought here in NZ need to be ‘unlocked’? And how could I tell if it was unlocked? The use of the phone would be mainly for texting friends in Europe and maybe the odd call home… I wouldn’t be receiving many (if any) calls from NZ . Any data gratefully received . . . Vodafone do not lock their mobile unlike australia . I would buy a 2nd hand GSm mobile and buy a sim card over there . I global roam in hong kong with my vodafone sim card . I sent 10 messages costed me $100 |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 460639 | 2006-06-05 19:52:00 | Vodafone do not lock their mobile unlike australia.I would buy a 2nd hand GSm mobile and buy a sim card over there.I global roam in hong kong with my vodafone sim card.I sent 10 messages costed me $100 Seems expensive to me. Are you sure of your numbers ninjabear. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 460640 | 2006-06-06 03:04:00 | Ah sorry I sent 100 text so that was $100 It was a dollar per text :xmouth: |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 460641 | 2006-06-06 03:10:00 | Calls was quite expensive.It was something like $2 a minute to receive a call and $4 a minute + standard calling rate per minute to make a call.. I sometimes would forget Im on a NZ vodafone sim Card.Lol I suggest you would be better off buying a sim card there I only used my Sim Card in Hk so that if my friends or family in trouble they could ring me.Just incase of emergency |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 460642 | 2006-06-06 03:44:00 | When i went to Holland last year, i used a mates Vodafone cellphone, then just purchased a sim card over there. Be aware that you cannot send text messages to 027 from a European Sim card, but 027 can send text messages to you. You can send text messages from vodafone to vodafone. The sim card cost me 10euro. |
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