I just had a question about buying a cell phone to use in Spain. I will be in Barcelona for a month, and then after that month I will be in Toledo until about June. So, if I buy my phone and get my number for that phone in Barcelona, will I have the same rate all over Spain, or will my rate be changed since I have the phone from Barcelona but will be using it in a different part of Spain?
Thanks.
Posts: 21 | Location: chicago | Registered: 15 August 2005
in spain cell phone numbers have no area codes and no roaming.
cost of calls is the same no matter where you call.
for example, it would cost you the same to call from your cell in barclona to your friends cell in the same city as it would for you to call from your cell to the cell of someone in the canary islands.
all makes sense if you consider that spain is about the size of a mid-sized to large state in the u.s.a. so pretty easy to wire for one big happy cell network.
for detailed info on call plans and rates of all 3 major ops. here, see www.spainsim.com/siminfo
that's what i figured but i just wanted to be sure. i had amena when i was in spain as a student, so i'll investigate which plan is best for me at the link. again, thanks for the info.
Posts: 21 | Location: chicago | Registered: 15 August 2005
ok, if you will have only the cell on pay as you go and no landline and will call back home, get on vodafone.
you can use their "vitamina 60x1" plan with a eurodirect calling card to call back to the u.s.a., canada and most of europe for 40 cents connection for up to an hour plus the minutes on the eurodirect card (800 minutes for a 6 euro card).
so, if you called back home for 30 minutes, the call would cost you 40 cents from your vodafone credit plus 22.5 cents (30 minutes at .075 cents/min.) from the eurodirect card for a total of 62.5 cents for 30 minutes back home, and from YOUR CELL PHONE!
1. After getting used and abused by Telefónica, I just had a really good experience with Vodafone's customer service (lost phone--don't ask). We go to the store on Calle de Toledo (number 41, I think--it's between the church of San Isidro and the La Latina stop on the east side of the street).
2. The jercard-euro-long-distance-whatever that he sells is amazing. I can almost never use all the minutes. I just don't know how it can be so cheap.
3. We're seriously grateful for having unlocked all of our phones (though jer, of course). It saved our asses when the above-mentioned losing-of-the-phone happened. Just got a new SIM made for the lost phone number from Vodafone (took about five minutes and was FREE), popped it into one of our other phones and it worked immediately--without losing any messages, missed calls, voicemail, etc.
Posts: 1079 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 10 December 2002
Would that jer-card-long-distance etc thingie work for me then? I have a vodafone contract phone which I have had for ever and ever. Could I save money (for another visit to madrid!) on phoning a landline from my mobile? Would it work out cheaper than the land to land calls I make to my mother? Does it work in the opposite direction?
Oh dear I can already see jer's reply about reading his website
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