Today i'm going to travel to Germany Ulm city, how can i get a mobile number?

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Today i'm going to travel to Germany Ulm city, how can i get a mobile number?

Answer 1

You need to have a u.s. tri band phone (if you have Mobile 1? the carrier that is German that is in the U.S. you will have less problem) so you can use your phone overseas. If you do you go to a telefon mobile store and you request a "chip" that would allow you to use your phone overseas. If you dont and just allow yourself to use your "roaming" feature on you phone, you could end up like me and a few dozen others who would up with bills of $350 and up. IJust for  a few weeks use. The u.s. mobile firms double their fees for people who travel overseas! One guy had a $5k bill from use in London.. If your phone does not work you might have to buy one in which you load (like the Virgin phone here) by buying a telephone loading card. You can get them for 25 or 50 euros. Last but not least if you dont want to do that you can buy a telephone card which you can also pay for and you will stick in the phone and it will deduct the amt you use from your credits.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, there's too little information in your question. I suppose you'll bring your mobile with you, so if it supports European GSM 900/1800 standards (usually these phones are called "quadband" types) you will be able to use your own number, but will have to pay the high roaming fees. So if your mobile is not locked to a specific provider or SIM, go to a mobile shop and buy a German SIM. There are several providers and paying schemes; if you don't have a German bank account, prepaid would be the option of choice. I'm at D2/Vodafone, their quality and network coverage is excellent. D1/T-Mobile is also good, and their rates for calls to the USA might even be lower, but I'm not sure.

Oh, one more thing: Once you have a German mobile phone number, there is no such thing as "airtime" here, so if you get called from another country, it's "caller pays all". But it only works with a German number, and within Germany.

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@agc, you are right, U.S. single or even double bands won't work here, and with tribands, there are restrictions. The only reasonable thing is a quadband, but most modern phones are. My SonyEricsson T610 is now almost five years old, and it's a quadband. -- Don't worry, however, you can buy used mobiles at resonable prices. I wouldn't recommend eBay, because you'll never know what you get (although I bought a reasonable phone there for only 40 euros). But it's better to ask at a store so you can test it and see if it works.