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A Message from Pleias, who can't post at the moment for some obscure technical reason:

Owners of mobile phones in greece that are on a prepaid card connection should visit a mobile shop and state their identification in connection with that number otherwise after June 30 their connection will be disabled and they'll lose the money left in the card.
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Little bit of Fred Drift

Thanks Jim/Plieas
Hope you dont mind a little bit of thread drift.

I dont have a greek mobile - I currently use a SIM4Travel for voice calls to blighty but I cant use it for data so can anyone advise if there are any reasonable greek PAYG deals around for data use at the moment. We are back in Greece in a few weeks and would like a backup to WiFi.
Thx
Steve
 
affinite said:
Thanks Jim/Plieas
Hope you dont mind a little bit of thread drift.

I dont have a greek mobile - I currently use a SIM4Travel for voice calls to blighty but I cant use it for data so can anyone advise if there are any reasonable greek PAYG deals around for data use at the moment. We are back in Greece in a few weeks and would like a backup to WiFi.
Thx
Steve
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Not as far as I know. it's contract only. The cheapest one I know of (Voda) is €20's + vat for 20hrs a month on a contract that can be cancelled after 2 months. You will have to have a permanant address as well, letter of occupancy/utillity bill.....

There might be cheaper deals around, no doubt you will be brought upto speed if anyone knows of a better deal.

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Make sure that the shop does it properly:
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/europe/5793-registering-greek-prepaid-sim.html

It should be done online and you should be asked to sign some papers.

You should also be asked whether you want the number in the directory or not - though I wasn't.

affinite said:
I dont have a greek mobile - I currently use a SIM4Travel for voice calls to blighty but I cant use it for data so can anyone advise if there are any reasonable greek PAYG deals around for data use at the moment. We are back in Greece in a few weeks and would like a backup to WiFi.
Thx
Steve
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Depends what volume of data you want.

Cosmote have a new prepaid data offer - 'Internet on the phone 60':
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/europe/2835-greece-hspa-prepaid-postpaid-offers-10.html#post32846
60Mb for 3€

Enough for weather forecasts,
 
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Alyssa said:
WIND also do a PAYG SIM. Cost 10 Euro with 10 Euro credit preloaded.
Two options .....NS 2 (2 days/2GB/7 Euro) or NS 7 (7 days/7GB?/14 Euro)
Got it from WIND shop in Corfu Town about 3 weeks ago.
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NS stands for called 'ADSM Non Stop'. Very simple - activated by sending an SMS.

Details: In English (translation seems to be faulty) and in Greek

Other options here - a bit out of date now.
 
affinite said:
Thanks Jim/Plieas
Hope you dont mind a little bit of thread drift.

I dont have a greek mobile - I currently use a SIM4Travel for voice calls to blighty but I cant use it for data so can anyone advise if there are any reasonable greek PAYG deals around for data use at the moment. We are back in Greece in a few weeks and would like a backup to WiFi.
Thx
Steve
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All the Greek phone companies seem to selling 3G dongles. We found Vodafone to be much cheaper than Wind but didn't try Cosmote. Vodafone was €49 for the dongle including 10 days of use. Vodafone costs are:
2 hours - €3.50
8 hours - €7
24 hours - €10
48 hours - €14
10 days - €19

These are continuous times: once it's turned on it runs until expired. All of the companies seem the same in this respect.

If you have a UK broadband dongle you will need to uninstall it before adding a Greek one. Mine wouldn't play at all until I did, although I didn't try just switching SIM cards.
 
vyv_cox said:
...We found Vodafone to be much cheaper than Wind ...
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I don't think I've ever seen 'Vodafone' and 'cheaper' togther before ;-)

vyv_cox said:
These are continuous times: once it's turned on it runs until expired. All of the companies seem the same in this respect.
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There are time-based tariffs, which expire after a number of days, and volume-based ones which expire after you've used up so many megabytes or gigabytes. The Wind ADSM link I gave above includes both. Cosmote do both too - but finding them on their website would a challenge - and it would probably be only in Greek.

It all depends on what you want to use it for - emails or YouTube (to take the extremes.) .
 
DaveRo said:
I don't think I've ever seen 'Vodafone' and 'cheaper' togther before ;-)


There are time-based tariffs, which expire after a number of days, and volume-based ones which expire after you've used up so many megabytes or gigabytes. The Wind ADSM link I gave above includes both. Cosmote do both too - but finding them on their website would a challenge - and it would probably be only in Greek.

It all depends on what you want to use it for - emails or YouTube (to take the extremes.) .
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Voda....cheapest....Life's full of surpises.

We got an unlocked Huawei dongle off, .....you've guessed it, Ebay for around £30.
There was no problem with Voda just suppling the sim but we did take the contract mentioned in my earlier post.
We then upgraded to 5GB a month for the winter for €27.71 pm and we have left it as is.
But again we can/could cancel the contract after 2 months.

It just goes to show how we get ripped off in the UK with phone contracts and the like......!

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jimbaerselman said:
A Message from Pleias, who can't post at the moment for some obscure technical reason:
Owners of mobile phones in greece that are on a prepaid card connection should visit a mobile shop and state their identification in connection with that number otherwise after June 30 their connection will be disabled and they'll lose the money left in the card.
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Did ours this morning at a general mobile phone shop in in Laki, Leros. They photocopied the ID page in my passport, wrote on it the phone number and SIM number and assured me that was all I needed to do. Just hope they remember to send it on.
 
I have a Huawei dongle supplied by Orange UK. Never used or even installed it. Do I need to get it unlocked before I put my Greek cosmote/Wind/Voda SIM in it ? Can you get them unlocked at those places that unlock phones ?
 
affinite said:
I have a Huawei dongle supplied by Orange UK. Never used or even installed it. Do I need to get it unlocked before I put my Greek cosmote/Wind/Voda SIM in it ? Can you get them unlocked at those places that unlock phones ?
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You can only try, these techno buffs that unlock phones should be able to accommodate you, even if you to try one or two, someone will point you to the person that can.
Good luck.

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affinite said:
I have a Huawei dongle supplied by Orange UK. Never used or even installed it. Do I need to get it unlocked before I put my Greek cosmote/Wind/Voda SIM in it ? Can you get them unlocked at those places that unlock phones ?
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A dongle supplied by Orange is almost certainly SIM locked, and, yes, you need to unlock it.

Google for fonefunshop - I've used them to fix, unlock, and debrand phones - though I've never got a dongle unlocked.
 
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