buying pay-as-you-go phones

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utagaura

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I thought I had an old GSM phone lying around. Can't find it.
My CDMA phone is not going to workt here. if I need to.. can I buy a pay as you go phone in Ibiza? How expensive would it be to buy the phone and the SIM? and how quick?

I would only be making a few calls, not tons every day.

Thanks.
 
cheep PAYG phone is €40 - €60, with usually around €10 of credit on it, just walk in the shop and buy it, works straight off, top it up in shop, garage etc
Would not recommend phoning UK mobiles on it though about €1.50 a min, ( this is vodaphone, movistar may be different but in my view there ain't a lot to choose between them )
Have a good one
Tim
 
Vodafone shops sell Vodafone phones, movistar shops sell movistar phone`s, etc , :-) :-) :-) we also have orange but I have not seen the shop, most people I know have movstar , which supposedly has the best coverage, I have voda which apart from the Santa Agnes road works fine, In August you will sometimes get busy network on all of them (AFAIK) due to the amount of people here,
If you are happy to use your own phone ( and probably lose it ) it is worth going into the shop and asking them to try their sim card in it, my UK O2 phone worked with voda, my daughters spanish orange works with UK O2 sim ????

Have a good one
Tim
 
blackswan555 said:
Vodafone shops sell Vodafone phones, movistar shops sell movistar phone`s, etc , :-) :-) :-) we also have orange but I have not seen the shop, most people I know have movstar , which supposedly has the best coverage, I have voda which apart from the Santa Agnes road works fine, In August you will sometimes get busy network on all of them (AFAIK) due to the amount of people here,
If you are happy to use your own phone ( and probably lose it ) it is worth going into the shop and asking them to try their sim card in it, my UK O2 phone worked with voda, my daughters spanish orange works with UK O2 sim ????

Have a good one
Tim
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Thanks Tim..but our phones don't have SIM cards, we are on a CDMA network not a GSM.
 
CDMA is a different cell phone standard, found mainly in North America, Korea and China but also elsewhere (here in Moscow, for example, we have one major CDMA network but everyone I know uses one of the 3 GSM operators).

CDMA phones work on a chip as opposed to a sim-card. You can't just swap it out.
 
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