Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Telephones, Broadband and Mobiles => Topic started by: KayteeLouise on June 25, 2008, 11:08:10 AM
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I'm thinking about buying a turkish sim when im next over there as 50p per texts to someone else in turkey is just stupid!
Is it as simple as just buying a sim and topping up?
Will i need to unlock my phone?
Do i need to buy a turkish phone?
Thanks :D
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We use a service called `Oneroam` check it out on the internet, although I never text sure its cheaper than 50p.
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If you're going to put a Turkish SIM in a UK phone, you have to get the phone registered for use in Turkey. To register the phone you'll need to show your passport. Registration only costs 5 YTL.
However, it can take as long as 3 weeks for the registration to go through the system so you might find it easier to buy a new or second-hand Turkish phone.
You also have to show your passport to buy a SIM, whether it's for a UK or Turkish phone.
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We have had a phone registered but it still got locked by Turkcell. In the end we just bought the cheapest phone we could from a Turkcell shop.
Migros was about £30 for cheapest phone a few weeks ago.
Last year we paid £40 for the cheapest Nokia you could get for about £15 in U.K.
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Phones so expensive there :/
So best bet is to buy a cheap turkish phone and go from there?
:) Thankyou.
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Also
what the minimum you need to put on you're phone to keep it working,
as i will want to use it everytime i go out but only out 2 or 3 times a year :)
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You can go to the Fatura Bank and buy just 5 Turkcell kontors at a time if you want.
I think you have to use the phone at least once every 3 months though.
Most people get round that by leaving the phone with a friend in Turkey and getting them to send a text message every so often.
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Im going to have to teach my self the kontors still confuses me. lol
I will see if i can leave it with some family over there :)
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I think you have to put kontors on the phone evey 3mth, i can't remember what it is, but there's a number to phone from the mobile, and a voice will tell you the date you have to top up before, if you don't top it up, it will be cut off. Alan
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If you don't top the phone up within 3 months, you are unable to make out going calls but you can receive incoming calls. You are then given a further 3 months before the line is cut off. In total you have 6 months from topping up until the line is cut off.
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We last used our Turkcell phone in Oct 30 last year, then topped up in uk in Jan but top up did not register. Then in the end of may this year we topped up again cos we could not make calls from it and we got the credit we put on in the uk added automatically.
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Okay :)
so buy new phone and make sure it's topped up every 3 months
Thanks