Buying a mobile phone sim (for internet) in France

knightstyle

Look at Leclerc supermarket. Not sure about PAYG but they are cheapest for contracts. See:http://www.leclercmobile.fr/prepaye-reglo-mobile/formules-options/options-sms-internet.aspx

Gloomendoom

If you do find an answer, post it up because I would be interested.

The only time I visit MacDonalds is in France. Just to make use of the free wifi.

NiftyDigits

If your phone is unlocked, then get yourself an 02 PAYG SIM.

When in France and you're on O2 Travel
It costs just £1.99 for a day's worth of data
(up to 25MB).

Pay & Go customers will be charged 28p per
minute to make calls and 7p per minute to
receive calls
Text messages cost 8p per message
(It's always free to receive texts)

Look here

JimmyTheWig

Sounds good, NiftyDigits.
Is that a British O2 deal, or something I buy in France?

I've got an old PAYG O2 sim. I wonder if that will work in my wife's phone.

What is "O2 Travel"?

NiftyDigits

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Sounds good, NiftyDigits.
Is that a British O2 deal, or something I buy in France?

I've got an old PAYG O2 sim. I wonder if that will work in my wife's phone.

What is "O2 Travel"?

Did you not click on my link? Try it.

It's a UK thing and should be automatically applied, though you can opt out.

The 3UK info is here

JimmyTheWig

Sorry. Missed that!

NiftyDigits

You'll need to unlock your phones at some point.

Bob_the_Saver

Gloomendoom wrote: »

If you do find an answer, post it up because I would be interested.

The only time I visit MacDonalds is in France. Just to make use of the free wifi.

The only problem is with restrictions on the power of wi-fi in much of France you'll have to go inside rather than just sit outside in the car park. :eek:

Bob_the_Saver

Some more info from the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19341605

JimmyTheWig

Gloomendoom wrote: »

If you do find an answer, post it up because I would be interested.

No answer, I'm afraid.
Decided that without knowing what sort of coverage we'd get we wouldn't pay out for anything until we got there.
As it happens we had good coverage, pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so my wife paid the £5 a day for Three.
I used the PAYG option and paid out a couple of quid over the whole 12 days - covered a few Facebook updates, checking the football scores and the odd bit of googling.