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    Default Traveling to Europe - SIM options

    Hi, as per the post title what people use these days?
    I plan to go to France for few weeks and need a SIM for few phone calls back home, mainly SMS to France recipients. Some data will be good to use for Uber and occasional internet when traveling by car in country side.



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    Hi fromaron,

    My wife and I travelled to Italy with a dual sim phone. We bought a sim card in Rome - it was okay for phone/sms within Europe. We spoke to a friend in U.K. a few times. Could not get the sim to work for the internet and no phone calls back to Australia. We had an I-Pad which we used for internet surfing and emails instead.

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    Here are your choices:

    Network operators (MNOs):

    Orange: prepaid voice/data SIM card, prepaid data SIM card
    SFR: prepaid voice/data SIM card , prepaid data SIM card
    Bouygues Télécom: prepaid voice/data SIM card
    Free Mobile: contracts, either rolling or prepaid for one month only

    Resellers (MVNOs):

    La Poste Mobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card
    Le French Mobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card (Euro SIM), prepaid data SIM card (Data SIM)
    Lebara mobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card
    Lycamobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card
    Réglo Mobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card
    Syma mobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card
    Vectone mobile: prepaid voice/data SIM card
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    We were in the UK 2 years ago and found 3 UK quite good around Europe. Vodafone Australia allow you overseas roaming access at $5 per utilisation day and you could pick up a cheap plan before you go. Also saves you the hassle in finding sims. You can also look at a Covermore sim.

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    Telstra travel pass for 30 days is $300 unlimited calls and text and 2.2 gig data......

    $10 a day for the convenience of using your own SIM and being contactable on the usual number is not bad. Especially if it's a work phone......

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    Thank you, guys.
    Nice list OC - appreciate it.
    Good idea, hoe. I need to check my phone business plan. I am not sure our business plan allows travel pass - need to check. Thanks for the hint.

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    You can enable roaming and buy the travel pass via the Telstra 24/7 app.

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    Ended up getting an Orange pre-paid SIM card. I found the option was most suitable as Orange offers their customers free wifi hotspots around France - something like 7 mln spots. It worked for me very well as I could use my tablet pretty much everywhere (tablet without SIM card).
    I got myself 20 euro deal which comes with unlimited sms and voice in France plus 1 GB data, as well as wifi hot spots as mentioned before.

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