PrePaids in Europe this summer.

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by borjeg

@richard1000
Yes, there other notations of the recharge cards, but really doesn't help very much if very few shop are carrying them.

You've got to be kidding -- you didn't see a Tabacchi or a kiosk anywhere in Italy?

As for the Passport, you commented on something else. Of course I had a valid passport issued by the officals in my home country, but it is not valid in shops in Germany. Only passports from Germany and some former Soviet Union states are valid in German shop. These are the only ones with an address in.

That's not true at all, although there are always going to be difficult and poorly-informed shop clerks, who are the rule, rather than the exception, in Germany.

If you want a postpaid account, and you are a non-German citizen, you need to present your foreign passport and police registration to prove your address in Germany. It doesn't make any difference if the foreign passport has an address or not (as it would be a foreign address).

But for prepaid there's no such requirement for police registration, only that you show a foreign passport (and sometimes a bank card). They do ask for an address, but your hotel will do. If you were told something else, it was wrong. (When the World Cup was on, Vodafone and T-Mobile both advertised prepaid SIMs to foreign visitors, not something they would do if these were not available to non-residents.)