Use prepaid cards in France

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If you spend a long time in France, it is worth purchasing a prepaid card to make phone calls. This is not only cheaper than with the previous cell phone, but also very easy.

With prepaid cards you can make cheap calls abroad.
With prepaid cards you can make cheap calls abroad.

What you need:

  • Cell phone or phone booth
  • Sim card and / or prepaid card

In France you can either Prepaid-Buy cards for your cell phone or phone cards for public payphones.

Prepaid cards for the mobile phone

  1. The French cell phone network is compatible with the German one, which is why it is generally not a problem to use your own cell phone to make calls from France. However, that can quickly turn into money. It is therefore worth buying a SIM card with a French number.
  2. Such SIM cards are available in all orange or France Telecom stores. Before buying, make sure that your mobile phone is not locked to a specific card by SIM lock.
  3. It can also be worthwhile to buy a prepaid mobile phone with a card in France. There are now very cheap offers. A starting credit is then already on the card. In this case, too, you have a French number. When the prepaid card is empty, you can buy a new one at a tobacco shop called tabac. The prepaid cards are called prepaid Mobicartes. You can top up credit between five and 100 euros. Depending on how much credit you buy, you will also receive a free credit.

Phone cards in France

  1. If you don't have a cell phone and don't want to buy one in France, you can grab phone cards and use them at public telephone booths. The so-called télécartes are available at post offices, supermarkets and tabacs and at some metro stations.
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  2. Note that the cards are the cheapest and offer the most talk time, most of them expire after a few days.
  3. Alternatively, you can be called back at public telephone booths. The phone booth number is ten digits long. When calling from the foreign countries, the first number of it, mostly a "0", has to be omitted.

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