Travelling to France, Italy, Greece and Turkey, need sim card advice (please)

Motel75 · 20-04-2010, 09:40

It also depends how much you are planning to use the phone. For occasional short calls within the EU (ie, calling ahead to a hotel or whatever, people from home calling to check if you're OK), it might just make sense to use a SIM from the first country you arrive in for the rest of the time, or the Vodafone (UK?) SIM you mention if you already have one, rather than buy for separate ones. The French ones in particular are not much cheaper to use for outgoing calls than roaming on a foreign one, and are expensive to buy. And a few SIMs offer cheap roaming in Turkey, too, due to the large number of Turks living in Europe.

SFR isn't controlled by Vodafone, unfortunately (Vf has a 44 percent stake), but by Vivendi, which treats it as a "cash cow" (ie, it keeps the prices high).

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Motel75 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 573 Join Date: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Berlin Country:	20-04-2010, 09:40 It also depends how much you are planning to use the phone. For occasional short calls within the EU (ie, calling ahead to a hotel or whatever, people from home calling to check if you're OK), it might just make sense to use a SIM from the first country you arrive in for the rest of the time, or the Vodafone (UK?) SIM you mention if you already have one, rather than buy for separate ones. The French ones in particular are not much cheaper to use for outgoing calls than roaming on a foreign one, and are expensive to buy. And a few SIMs offer cheap roaming in Turkey, too, due to the large number of Turks living in Europe. SFR isn't controlled by Vodafone, unfortunately (Vf has a 44 percent stake), but by Vivendi, which treats it as a "cash cow" (ie, it keeps the prices high). Current DE: Vodafone, Netzklub; PL: Klucz, Virgin; UK: Giffgaff, Vodafone; US: T-Mobile; CA: 7-Eleven; IT: Vodafone; UA: Kyivstar; FR: Bouygues; GR: Vodafone Former DE: Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, Blauworld, 01051mobile, Solomo, Lycamobile, Simyo, Congstar, Fonic, Edeka Mobile, Lidl Mobile; PL: Heyah, Era, Virgin, Sami Swoi, Orange, POP, iPlus, Carrefour Mova, Telepin Mobi, Play, Lycamobile, T-Mobile; UK: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Virgin; US: T-Mobile, AT&T, Lycamobile; CZ: Vodafone, Oskar; ES: Lebara; GR: Vodafone, Wind; UA: Vodafone; IL: Orange; TR: Turkcell