Re: GSM phone + SIM card?

Hello all,

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:39:46AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:06:20PM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> >
> > Here in the very backward and strange land of CDMA, I have a phone
> > that works fine, but only here. When I'm in most of the rest of the
> > world, I'm phoneless, which makes things kinda tough, so I'm looking
> > for a way to get:
> >
> > 1. An unlocked GSM phone that's just a phone. Simplicity is key.
>
> Go into pretty much any store. Or get it online. It'll be more expensive
> when it's unlocked, of course, but they're everywhere.

Nobody which an old but working dualband phone at home? One which he can
sell to David?

> > 2. Some way to acquire a SIM card, ideally one that will work
> > EU-wide.
>
> Uh, AFAIK, you'll be hard pressed to find one that *doesn't* work EU-wide
> ;-) There are some pre-paid that don't, but most if not all subscriptions
> do.

Don't know about other european countries, but i think, in germany you
have to use your identity card to get a sim card.

Kind regards

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group