Phone registration

[pasha]

Does anybody know if you need to have residency to register a UK phone?

[janmack]

Not as far as I know.  Our neighbours (who do not have residency) registered their phones earlier this week.  They just had to show their passports.  They said it cost them 5TL each.

[desmartinson]

not sure if you mean for mobile turkish Pasha, uk mobile will work anywhere in the world, but costs a fortune. if you have an old mobile you can have it unlocked and register it with your passport and they will give you a new number and you,re up and running.if you mean landline phone you need residency or have it in a friends name(turkish).

[pasha]

Thanks for the replies, I registered a phone last year but had residency. I have an unlocked iphone being brought over next week.

I have been told that you can now only register one phone every two years so I will get the person that brings it over to register it.

[pasha]

I went to the Turkcell shop and was told that you do not need residency to register the phone, but you can only authorise 1 sim card to be used in it.
If you have residency you can authorise up to 5 sim cards.  

[The Crinklies]

Help needed please re mobile phone registration - is it only possible to do this at a Turkish airport on the way into the country, or is it possible to do the registration at a Turkcell shop? Thank you.

[tinkerman]

any phone shop will do it.

[scouser2]

I had my mobi unlocked in the U.K. We bought a Turkish sim card and it worked for about 5 weeks. Our phone now says Unregistered Sim. Do I have to have my mobi unlocked here?
Thanks in anticipation.

[brianthegardener]

scouser2 .. you need to have both the phone AND the sim card registered at a Turkcell shop ... not just un locked.

[kayakebab]

so is it technially the sim card youre registering, because what if your handset broke within 2 years?