Originally Posted by
CatJo
Thanks, don't know how I missed that. I may be able to contact a friend who lives in Paris, so perhaps he can sign up for Sosh or SFR's Red and mail the SIM card to me? Don't know if that'll be worth it just to sign up for a month and then cancel as these don't appear to be the typical prepaid product. A pity, it's such a great deal!
Depends on how good the friend is.
There is no red tape in the U.S. that compares with French red tape.
Originally Posted by
CatJo
Given my desire to have an active SIM card upon arrival in Paris, perhaps it's best to pay a premium and buy
one from eBay? The Orange Mobicarte is probably the cheapest option (still trying to decipher their packages, looks like Internet MAX is cheap but then no email access through that?);
LeFrenchMobile could be good too, though relatively expensive, but they'll deliver it to me and have English instructions.
I would not buy a foreign SIM on eBay but maybe that's just me. My advice is that if you have a good friend, have him or her buy the Mobicarte and
activate it in France and then mail it to you.
I am an Orange subscriber and when I got my last SIM mailed to me here in the U.S., it was a major headache to have it activated here since New York is off-network. It took a couple of calls to France.