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Information and Services in Turkey Section => Telephones, Broadband and Mobiles => Topic started by: pasha on October 24, 2010, 11:51:56 AM

Title: Phone registration
Post by: pasha on October 24, 2010, 11:51:56 AM: Does anybody know if you need to have residency to register a UK phone?
Title: Phone registration
Post by: janmack on October 24, 2010, 14:24:50 PM: 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.
Title: Phone registration
Post by: desmartinson on October 24, 2010, 15:14:22 PM: 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). ;)
Title: Phone registration
Post by: pasha on October 24, 2010, 15:54:12 PM: 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.
Title: Phone registration
Post by: pasha on December 10, 2010, 11:23:28 AM: 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. ;)
Title: Phone registration
Post by: The Crinklies on December 26, 2010, 02:30:00 AM: 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.
Title: Phone registration
Post by: tinkerman on December 26, 2010, 06:35:05 AM: any phone shop will do it.
Title: Phone registration
Post by: scouser2 on January 23, 2011, 11:43:53 AM: 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.
Title: Phone registration
Post by: brianthegardener on January 23, 2011, 13:31:24 PM: scouser2 .. you need to have both the phone AND the sim card registered at a Turkcell shop ... not just un locked.
Title: Phone registration
Post by: kayakebab on January 23, 2011, 15:37:50 PM: so is it technially the sim card youre registering, because what if your handset broke within 2 years?
Title: Phone registration
Post by: mercury on January 23, 2011, 17:14:27 PM: I went to register my new all singin all dancing English phone at the vodaphone shop. No probs they said and it worked fine with my sim card that has been in use for 3 years. % weeks later I got a txt saying I had a week to re register it as they were going to cut me off. I went to the shop to learn that as I had only had my other phone regfistered for 1 year and 11 months I had to have it done again. Hubbys was no good because we had returned from the U.K 5 weeks earlier and it has to be a passport used in the last month. Got my friend to register it in her name but was told that as I have residency but she doesnt then I can't put my old sim card in that I have to have a new one even though it is unlocked to any network. Now am faced with letting all 130 people on my sim know I am changing my number. Also banks, etc. pain in the a----e. Also had to pay twice for the registration.:(:-\
Title: Phone registration
Post by: number2 on January 25, 2011, 11:57:56 AM: quote:
Originally posted by 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. ;)

I wanted to put a vodaphone sim in my English Nokia 5800, but it wouldn't work as i'd registerd it with Turkcell in June, i have residency, so i don't think they've given you the correct info on that, i can use it in my Turkish Samsung, i thought i might have had to register my Nokia with vodaphone as well, but couldn't do that either. Alan
Title: Phone registration
Post by: mercury on January 26, 2011, 21:50:11 PM: Registration is for Turkey as a whole Alan. It doesnt matter which shop it is registered at now. It is true that only authorise one sim can be used in a newly registered phone if the person who registers it doesnt have residency. I know because I am now having to change my phone number if I want to use my newly bought phone. 28TL for a new sim is a ridiculous price while I am at it. grrr!!
Title: Phone registration
Post by: Tykatem on April 19, 2011, 14:11:47 PM: quote:
Originally posted by kayakebab

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

Is it possible to de-register a UK mobile phone, then register another?

Pete
Title: Phone registration
Post by: pasha on April 19, 2011, 22:54:15 PM: quote:
Originally posted by Tykatem

quote:
Originally posted by kayakebab

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

Is it possible to de-register a UK mobile phone, then register another?

Pete

No chance, I registered a brand new Iphone 4 in December that later developed a fault, I took it to the UK on my last visit and it was replaced after making an appointment at the apple store.

I made sure that they gave me the relevant paperwork to show that the phone had been replaced due to the fault.

I went to the Turkcell shop to change the IMEI number on my registration only to be told "ONE PHONE, I PASSPORT, 2 YEARS, NO EXCEPTIONS".

So if you lose/break/have your phone stolen you are stumped, they blocked it yesterday and I am now basically stuck with a £500.00 Ipod.:-\