Report on using Orange Mobicarte in France

[jsteinhu]

Originally Posted by jsteinhu

I purchased an activated card from the ebay.fr seller discussed on this thread. When the sim arrived I was able to SMS another local phone using it and create an orange.fr account. However, several days later when I log in I get the following message whenever I try to do anything useful like add Internet Max. Suggestions?

I got to France with this never resolved. The Orange store was unable to add my identity to the SIM card because of something wrong with the way the card was in the syste. I eventually purchased a new card, activated it, waited 20 hours for the identity flag to be set (they checked my passport at the store) and bought internet max. Does anyone know if it takes exactly 48 hours or UP TO 48 hours to be activated? Is there a way to tell if it is active yet? It does show up in the account website.

Also for others reading, if you want to use the website interface, the initial password takes about 20 hours to be sent to you as a SMS even if you are in France.