Aldi Talk questions for trip to Germany

[dg7feq]

Hello,
you need to do one voicecall to activate the card. Otherwise you can not use GPRS.
You can call to UK - they charge international calls by the second so if you hangup after a few words you dont spend too much money.

Topup is like a scratch card. the code should be provided on the topup card.

Chris

[Effendi]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

you need to do one voicecall to activate the card. Otherwise you can not use GPRS.

talking about GPRS, I had some problems with Aldi and then with Simyo, since I could never use it, always getting an error. The last time I tried it was at Muchen airport last august.

I used my Nokia e65, creating a new connection using these settings:
APN: internet.eplus.de
User: eplus
Pwd: gprs (if I remember well, now I see ****, of course)

With these settings I always got a connection error (I was on 3G). Of course I already used that simcard for voicecalls.
Any idea?

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Effendi

talking about GPRS, I had some problems with Aldi and then with Simyo, since I could never use it, always getting an error. The last time I tried it was at Muchen airport last august.

I used my Nokia e65, creating a new connection using these settings:
APN: internet.eplus.de
User: eplus
Pwd: gprs (if I remember well, now I see ****, of course)

With these settings I always got a connection error (I was on 3G). Of course I already used that simcard for voicecalls.
Any idea?

Hm, these are exactly the correct settings. Note that Simyo can not run on 3G - only on GSM. Aldi can also run on 3G.

Chris

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

Hm, these are exactly the correct settings. Note that Simyo can not run on 3G - only on GSM. Aldi can also run on 3G.

Chris

Not quite -- Simyo can run on 3G, but you need to order a different SIM to do it (for whatever reason), and it costs €10.