Report on using Orange Mobicarte in France

[TraceyJ]

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?



Thanks for your help!

This is exactly the same problem I had about 4 weeks ago. I emailed the seller and he was able to resolve the problem in about 5 working days. He said it wasn't the first time it had happened and he knew what to do to resolve it.

The expected 15 Euros credit was only showing as 5 Euros on the portal until this was resolved.

I was then able to use the card in a mifi type router (namely a 'zoom') for 17 days without any issues on both an iphone and an ipad.

Whilst in France I also bought an orange recharge for my return visit next month and will take the email option as well next time as I'm only there for a week. It was a great solution for me so thanks for the information in this thread.