Originally Posted by
Dubai Stu
There is a thread on the Lonely Planet Travel Tech forum about someone who has been repeatedly refused the right to purchase a data enabled prepaid SIM without a phone at both Orange and SFR stores. In additional to the 48 hour data waits, they seem to be saying that they no longer do SIM only sales. I have not verified it and am passing it on without recourse.
That wasn't my experience at all. I walked into the Orange store on Place de la Madeleine and, ten minutes later, walked out with a working data SIM card.