I know this sound a bit thick but I have never taken my phone abroad and can find no answer on Nokia web site.
This time I need to use my phone as a contact between me my wife and our twelve year old daughter.
also what are the charges and are they the same for a call to my wife/daughter 200 yards away in the same shopping centre as they are to call home? You see er in doors and the sprog have what is commonly called retail syndrome which causes me to have sever open wallet surgery.
bruce
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You can almost certainly use your mobile in France assuming you are setup for international roaming - check with your provide.
To phone home is very expensive - you should find the rates on your network providers home page.
Calling your wife/daughter who are also in France will be more expensive - call from France to UK then UK back to France. It would be cheaper to buy a decent set of walkie talkies to communicate.
If your phone is modern it should be set up for roaming(use abroard) but if you & your family just keep phoning each other all the time like you do in the UK--you will need severe open wallet surgery to the tune of 100s of £s if your pay monthley or if your pay & go your credit will have paid & gorn in a few minutes--the cost is usully over a £ a minute----another trap for the unwary is it costs YOU money to RECIEVE calls on your phone---folk have gorn abroad on holiday--made no calls--just recieved them & got huge bills--the sensible thing to do when takin your phone abroad--(unless your wealthy!) is to text this normally only costs about 20p per text---check with your provider-(O2, Orange etc) what the roaming costs are---
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I did use my phone in France, no problem, i spite of the price. But than we did maintain good phone-discipline. 'Where are you now, we will meet at ....., closed."
There were also some rather long calls back home and to the girl on holiday in Spain (some problems with theft on holiday), those were more expensive.
Due to those longer conversation the total cost was about €40. They say a phoneboot is cheaper, but to my experience in the past having to phone home to parents etc. would cost about the same. You need to buy a phonecard and will finish it anyway, and maybe a second.
Again: how is the phoning discipline.
I am on Virgin Mobile and used my phone a few times when in France this summer. It cost somewhere in the region of 90p per minute which can quickly mount up. I wouldn't recommend using a mobile regularly in France as you will find you need major open wallet surgery when you get home!
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I actually do not know if pay as you go cards are available without telephone, let alone the price. Is suppose it exists, but see how it is in Britain, it will be the same in France in that respect.
The idea is the same as bying a basic prepayphone.
This is a fantastic site and I wonder now what ever did we do before we were introduced to it. Spent hours looking at the telly I expect, yuk.
anyway has anyone else noticed that when one asks a question about a problem or anything else there are always so many good people ready to give so many different bits of excelent advice? and all for free. on some of the questions there are so many different answers that after a couple of days you are back to sqare one. not knowing which piece of advice to take as they all look so good and sensible.
Anyway we have decided NOT to take the mobile phones to France. That has solved the problem. the worst that can happen after all is that I could lose the Missus in some giant hypermarket. Nah, with my luck someone would find her and bring her home again.
Or bring them to be able to phone home in case of emergency only. For the rest you don't use them.
As far as the supermarket is concerned, I suppose you would make a regular arrangement to get back to the car if you loose sight of one another? Or pick another clear location, like the petrolsation at the supermarket. It will be the entrance when visiting a castle etc. In a town: maybe the 'syndicat d'initiative' or tourist board, the bridge across the river through the centre of the town or some church that you can easily see from a distance etc. And I usually carry a card in my pocket with name and adress of the campsite where we are staying. If the whole family does, they can get back somehow. And if they are lost it will be worth that one minute phonecall for one or two pound to agree where to go and meet.
You probably did, but did not realize. Some things seem that obvious that one tends to forget or overlook.
As to the bridge thing: that type of stuff is less common. Those are easy to see and find and easy to ask for objects. One can nearly always find the river in town, and then follow it to the bridge (more bridges in case of a city), even a kid can do it.
In some old towns the city hall also is a good one, or the Head Post Office! That is usually indicated on the signs in town, in Britain as well as in France.
It just depends in the town/city wich object is the best. if you have three big churches asking is difficult, unkess one of their towers is very specific.
Post office HQ nearly always is good one. Actually handing over my son to my ex-wife on a previous holiday in France we decided to meet halfway, in fact each of us driving some 300/350 kms. I was in the Pyrenees and she was in the Vercors. We phoned on the way (yes, mobiled) ann said 'where are you now'. Answer: near that or that city, expect to be about that or that place in about one hour/half an hour. Just one minute at the most. The third call we could decide wich town, near the motorway, we would meet, yes in front of the Post Office. Good parking place, no searching or whatever as it was well indicated. We both drove straight to that spot, just 5 or 10 minutes driving in that particular town. In all I think we phoned for 3 minutes, some three pounds worth ann well spent.
It works. In this case phoned due to the large distance. Being near or in that town we would not have phoned, just agreed to the Post office and go.
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