Ah merci! Il m'a manqué le zéro!

yw .......................

Strictly not on this thread as the B&You offer is gone. Bought a top up for my Orange simply from willemijns. Top bloke fantastic service. Highly commended

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I'm in the US and my Simyo credit is about to expire. I have a Bouygues recharge number I bought from a tobacco store in France last year, but I don't know if there's a way to use it from the US. Anybody have a suggestion on how I can get it to work?

call 630 (not free outside France)
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compose your ticket code + # key and wait (10 seconds ?)

Thanks much for your help! I was surprised that it worked from the US, but it did work after I got connected to the Bouygues roaming network in the US.

One thing to add to your instructions:

After entering the ticket code + # key, you will get a prompt to enter '1' to complete the transaction or '2' to reject the transaction. You must enter the '1' to have the ticket accepted.

BTW, I bought the Bouygues recharge ticket in France last May with the intention of using it to extend the expiration date of the card. I would recommend that anyone who has one of these cards and wants to keep it active do the same.

For this SIM card, one paid call per year is sufficient. no need to top-up if your credit is sufficient.

the official doc says you receive 2 sms (D-30 and D-7 before closing the account forever)

for me in France, i call 3 seconds every semester (cost 1 cent *2 per year)
my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-son will empty the credit :chair::chair::chair::chair:

That's a good plan. One problem is that I can't find anything on the website that shows when the card will expire or when the last call was placed. That means that you have to track the expiration date yourself. I'm going to be in France briefly at the end of May and I wanted to make sure that the card would still be working when I got there.

Also, I don't see any options for data packages with this card. Is per megabyte billing the only option available?

it is true that they are no expiration infos before the 2 last SMS informations...

they are no data packages on this offer.

With this SIM now being simyo, what is going on with the credit? 5 EUR is only for 15 days or so, which is crap!

I still have 8.84 EUR credit left... I'll try to extend it for as long as possible until a better prepaid offer comes around, but still - I signed up under the original conditions of B&You, not simyo!

The credit on ex-B&You Simyo SIM cards is valid for 365 days since the last balance deduction.

if you bought the card on b&you during the initial offer, the name is simyo but the contract with the same core conditions as b&you remains. period.

http://www.willemijns.com/divers/simyo.htm

As a newcomer to the world of overseas pre-paid deals, I’ve just read the entire B&YOU thread from top to bottom and it’s like a thrilling switchback ride with all its ups and downs! So from what I understand, the original B&YOU offer has closed; but what is the feeling about its successor from SIMYO? Is the latter considered a good (the best?) pre-paid deal for calls and data in France?
Many thanks in advance for comments.
RN7

They are better than SIMYO

FYI An (evident) unofficial sell processing is launched since X weeks on Bouygues Telecom who manages SIMYO.

This offer will disappears in 2 years max (95% probability).

Another name change in progress, please wait i check informations....

New name "Carte prépayée Bouygues Telecom", no core change in expiration
date process..... After 8/26/2015 you must go to bouygues telecom website instead of simyo.fr

I WAIT CONFIRMATION THE 26TH AUGUST.

I've just received the following e-mail from Simyo:

Bonjour ,

Le 12 novembre prochain, Bouygues Telecom cessera définitivement d'exploiter la marque simyo.
A cette occasion, dès le 26 août, votre offre prépayée sera rebaptisée « Carte Prépayée Bouygues Telecom », et vous aurez accès à l'espace client Bouygues Telecom.

Pas d'autres changements pour vous : vous conserverez votre ligne, vos recharges sans durée de validité et la possibilité de recharger dans votre point de vente habituel, par téléphone ou par internet.

Rendez-vous dans l'espace client simyo.fr pour en savoir plus.

L'équipe simyo.

Maybe using the Bouygues website will be better. I live in the US and It would be great if I could use a non-French credit card to recharge. I'm not familiar with the Bouygues website, so I don't know how it will work out.

Thanks for asking us to the change!

new official name "Carte Prépayée Bouygues Telecom sans durée de validité"
so no core change....

Yes, one advantage is that you can now use Bouygues Telecom's smartphone apps to check your balance, instead of having to dial 630, which is clumsy as well as being chargeable outside France.

Does anyone know what the latest APN is?

Sorry, I don't know which APN to use. Can you tell me which app you're talking about. The only app I can find that lets you manage your account appears to be an unofficial one. What's the name of the one you're using?

The APN that I successfully used today in France was mmsbouygtel.com (for mainstream internet not MMS).

My B&You SIM cards are not getting 4G, so I asked them to swap them in a Bouygues Telecom shop. They couldn't find me on the system, so I gave up.

Looks like validity is extended by recharging only. So far, placing a call and sending an SMS haven't changed the expiration date, even though the remaining credit changes on the Bouygues website.

http://www.assistance.bouyguesteleco...carte-prepayee
Votre ligne reste ouverte 12 mois à compter de votre dernier rechargement. Vous êtes toujours joignable!


Another thing, the phone was in a drawer for a few weeks, and the first time I switched it on after it had become a Bouygues account it took a while before it was able to do anything (send/receive calls, send messages). I was afraid it had expired, but then after 15 minutes, everything was fine.

Motel75 - it has always displayed an expiry date that is much longer than 365 days since the last chargeable usage. Therefore don't expect it to update each time you use it. They clearly said "vous conserverez votre ligne, vos recharges sans durée de validité".

Unfortunately, I just received an SMS warning me that my line would expire in one month - on the date listed on the website.

"Info 630. Votre ligne est valable jusq'au 19/10/2015. Rechargez en appelant le 630 (gratuit) pour conserver votre numéro!"

There's a discussion (in French) here: http://forum.lesmobiles.com/simyo/fi...10230-100.html

I don't believe there's any permanent problem. Credit on one of my B&You SIM cards disappeared in December 2014 well before the change from Simyo to Bouygues. It was just before a trip to France, so I had to top up by €10. When I complained, they reinstated my original credit, plus my €10 top-up plus a €2 goodwill credit. There is obviously some expiry bug, but they correct it without a fuss

There isn't. A few days after my last post, the expiration date changed to 2018 all by itself. :-)

I'll be in France for 25 days in May and I'm trying to figure out how to get the best deal for this period. I have the old B&YOU/Simyo card which is now the Bouygues card. I'm mostly interested in data and I don't expect to make many telephone calls. I will probably need about 2Gb of data for the entire period.

Does anybody have any suggestions on which offer to take?

Since the beginning, expiration dates are false.... one PAID sms, call or several kilobytes of data and you can keep forever your card....

off-topic here, create a new subject and i will answer u :)

Hello,

a new secret / hidden condition has been added without warning to this offer, i lost my credit due to that !

now, credit is not kept forever even if you call or SMS or does one DATA connexion every year, you need to load new credit (minimum 10€) every 2 years !!!

after 2 SMS warnings one week and 3 days before their own date, you lost credit and maybe you can lost your number...

Thanks for that, willemijns. Still, 5 euros a year is better than any other French offer I'm aware of. It's possible that being the only French offer with generous expiration, they got a large share of "parked" numbers that weren't getting much use.

FYI: On 14th june, roaming will be forbidden with this offer (and the day after, the EU roaming law will apply we know we know we know :dunno::dunno::dunno: )

they push out every prepaid cards / PAYG customers who want to use their SIM card outside France => pay a plan or leave us buddy !

1) You can still call outside France of course

2) This card still works if it stay in France ;)

Thanks for this information! I live in the US and only use this card when I visit France occasionally. I guess that this new policy means that I won't be able to use my SIM card in the US to add a rechargement, send a text, etc. If I can't use the card in the US, then I will have no way to extend my expiration date. Do you have any ideas about a way to extend the expiration date if I'm not in France?

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Super! C'est parfait! Merci.

Well, it's the evening of the 16th here in Berlin, and my Bouygues SIM is still working fine.

And it's still working fine on roaming 10 days later. Did B&You change their mind about this? Willemijns, where was the announcement that they were going to cut off roaming?