German Sim Card
 

What would be the cheapest sim card to pick up in Berlin? I probably won't be making any/much outgoing calls, but would like it for incoming calls.

Thanks

Check out the "How much is a European SIM card..." thread over in Travel Technology. It is the top sticky.

Check on ebay Germany. You will get pre paid cards for one or two Euro

WOW, sounds like a bargin!:)
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Searching ebay under LOOP cards will give you the O2 ones. And I've found them ok.

If you only want them for receiving calls, you should be able to pick one up in most supermarkets.

Aldi as being one of the big ones has good rates (and recently started having ,24 euro per mb for data traffic), as have the others you can pick up.

should be roughly 15 euros or such with some value on it.

as receiving of calls and sms is free it does not really matter which one you choose unless all of your partners are on a special provider where it would make sense to stay in the network.

hth

I'm flying into Berlin, and looks like there is a T-Punkt store at the airport, might just pick one up there, unless it's a huge ripoff

Should be fine - saves you hassle when getting one.

does your mobile support the german network?
otherwise you might just get one simlocked mobile fon with it, cheapest probably for 30 euros.

yea, quad-band, just called t-mobile the other day to request an unlock code, all went through fine, just need to swap in the new sim now.

I did this last November - the cost for the SIM and the included time (I forgot how much) was just under 15 Euros.

Like you plan to do, I used my unlocked U.S. T-Mobile Motorola V330 (quad), and my number was active before I left the store. If you need to refill, you can do so either on the "XTRA" website, or at any T-Punkt store. IIRC unused time is good for one year.

Hi,

I am in a similiar situation except that I am going to Munich . Will be there Friday through Monday and really just need to be able to call home once a day. Would there be one of these T-punkt stores in the Munich airport?

Thanks!

Just checked the airport website and there is mobilcom-Shop München-Flughafen in Terminal 2, Level 03, public area, as well as a few Multitronics stores which might sell sims.

I did a SIM card rental in the airport and got ripoff as they charge you a lot as deposit and never credit back to your credit card. So please buy the SIM card and never ever do the rental.

T-Punkt store at Tegel, 5 euros for the sim, and it came with 10 euros of credit

laspvg, thanks for the warning as I was considering just what you did. Now I will get my US phone unlocked and get a local SIM card.

Cheers