Report on using Orange Mobicarte in France

[gaztelugatxe]

Originally Posted by jb9

I am late to this thread, but still have a question about incoming international calls to my Orange SIM Card GSM phone. I am going to Corsica (France) in a week and wanted to verify that if I am on the Orange France network, will I be able to receive free incoming international calls? Thanks!

Hello jb9

Yes, if you have a Orange FR SIM Card and you have Orange FR Signal you will NOT pay for any call you receive. In Europe you don´t pay anything to receive phone calls unless you are in another country (roaming) or near a foreign border and your phone loses your home operator signal and gets signal from a foreign operator.

Regards,

[bluespruce]

So after having a less than stellar experience with Lebara, I've finally given into the Orange empire.

I left this morning for Italy for a week, and I was silly enough to not top up my account or buy the European data plan before I left, and I only have EUR 3 left in my account. I've tried purchasing more credit through my account on orange.fr, but my Visa gets declined each time. I obviously haven't found any Orange recharge cards in Italy, but would anyone know of a way in which I can recharge my account (either through my Visa, Paypal, or perhaps the rare retail location that sells Orange recharges) from here?

[scirocco]

The Ebay seller emy351 sells Orange France recharges. She will send you the recharge code by email and you can use the phone menu to add the credit - you don't have to wait for a piece of paper to arrive. Legit seller but charges a premium over the face value of the recharge.

If you buy the Orange France roaming pack for Europe I'd be interested to hear if it works okay. Back in July I used this pack in Italy and it ran out of credit way, way before I had downloaded anything like the data you are supposed to get included.

[bluespruce]

Scirocco, the same thing just happened to me. I bought €20/400 MB of European data roaming that is good for 7 days, and I was planning on using it on vacation in Spain. About six hours after I crossed the border, I received a text message saying that I'd used all of my data. I know I am a fairly big data user, but there's no way I used 400 MB in a matter of hours. Normally, I buy the 500 MB/2 week recharge when I'm in France, and even I don't use all 500 MB in two weeks.

The same exact thing also happened to my boyfriend's phone. His message came about two hours after mine, but there's still no way he used 400 MB of data in a few hours either. If this is a recurring problem with Orange France, then I should have just bought a prepaid Orange Spain SIM to use for the time that I was there.

[scirocco]

Thanks for the feedback bluespruce, sorry that you got ripped off as well but I'm personally pleased to know it wasn't just me doing something wrong.

Although I did wonder if it has got some sort of limitation in the small print, like maybe you can only use plain http browsing and if you click on a streaming media link it will use the credit at some huge rate.

[willemijns]

Originally Posted by scirocco

The Ebay seller emy351 sells Orange France recharges.

i can do the same for your ticket. contact me by PM. +2€ commission per ticket.
see my feedbacks on the "b&you" thread. noone was unhappy.

[flychr]

I still have mobile card and going to france in week 3 Is there a options on the sim for data that is worth to choose before I leave? also has a http://www.europasim.com/en_GB it is better to use?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all
Chr

[UKSTEVE]

French mobile data on pre-pay is always problematic. At 3 euros a day for 500MB the EuropaSIM service is a doddle to use. No brainer really

+Steve

[flychr]

At 3 euros a day for 500MB the EuropaSIM service

you can get 500 gb per day in France with europasim for 3 euro????
chr

[UKSTEVE]

No, 500 megabytes. Not gigabytes