Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum

Information and Services in Turkey Section => Telephones, Broadband and Mobiles => Topic started by: grendawkin on July 28, 2005, 16:32:55 PM

Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: grendawkin on July 28, 2005, 16:32:55 PM: During our most recent visit to Calis we purchased a TURKCELL SIMM card for our mobile phone. This cost £10 and included 100 units of calls.
This is much cheaper than using your UK phone service, both for calls within Turkey and for calls and texts back to the UK.
Your phone will need to be unlocked to accept the new SIMM Card but most phone shops can do that for a small fee (or maybe free).
When you return to the UK you can simply replace your original Card and all will revert to "as was". You can use your Turkcell card again when you are next in Turkey, as long as it is within 90 Days
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: loz on July 28, 2005, 16:41:33 PM: or leave it with a friend estate agent or maintenance company for those not lucky enough to return in 90days to keep it live.
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: philrose on July 28, 2005, 17:51:27 PM: It's worth pointing out that if you go over 90 days you dont lose any credits on the phone. You only need to top up your phone to reactivate it and you get that lot of credits plus any that were on the phone originaly. My only problem is I keep ending up with more and more credits as I don't use it enough! :)
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: valentine on July 28, 2005, 18:32:31 PM: I know its been covered before but its worth pointing out again that calls from your Turkish sim to a UK landline are incredibly cheap compared to calls from a UK sim. Unfortunately I don't have your problem philrose - I can talk for England!:D:D
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: glennat on July 29, 2005, 10:13:32 AM: Hi Grendawkin,

Whereabouts can you buy these Simms?

Glen
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Post by: number2 on July 29, 2005, 10:27:14 AM: Glen, you get sim card from mobile phone shops, but remember to take your passport. Alan
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: Rimms on July 29, 2005, 10:28:18 AM: Glen,

If you go into Fethiye, there are several mobile phone shops on the main road opposite the main mosque. We use a place in the back street near the fish market.

Phil

I thought that after not using the phone for 90 days, you lost your number ? it seems that this is not the case from what you say?

Rimms
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: sandgrounder on July 29, 2005, 10:42:19 AM: George,

If you buy an "Aria" sim card you can leave it for as long as you want and you don't lose the credits etc. I now keep my Turkish sim in my camera case and as soon as the plane touches down in Turkey i take my english sim out and replace with the Aria one which is still fully working:D

Russ
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: tribalelder on July 29, 2005, 12:19:41 PM: Have had a Starcep simcard for a year now, purchased at a phone shop at the Otogar .....was never asked for passport or any I/D. There must be at least fifty places in Fethiye to get a simcard. :)
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: glennat on July 29, 2005, 13:31:44 PM: Thanks very much.

Strange, needing to present your passport in order to make a phone call. Any ideas why?

Glen
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: philrose on July 29, 2005, 16:16:49 PM: quote:
Originally posted by Rimms

Glen,

If you go into Fethiye, there are several mobile phone shops on the main road opposite the main mosque. We use a place in the back street near the fish market.

Phil

I thought that after not using the phone for 90 days, you lost your number ? it seems that this is not the case from what you say?

Rimms

I have a "My Cep" (think that's how it's spelt) sim and I've gone nearly 6 months and it still reactivated with a top up. Guess it just as case what policy certain companies have. Worth checking out though!
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: Cavfan on July 29, 2005, 22:07:59 PM: I've got the same one as Russ- Aria. It was unused from October last year until May this year and I thought we'd be snookered but it was fine. It costs 11ytl for a top up of 100 credits and each text to a UK phone uses 3 credits. It lasts us ages.
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: canalman on July 30, 2005, 06:29:48 AM: Glennat, you do not need your passport to make a phone call but you do need it when you buy a SIM card as you do for just about anything else in Turkey. It is probalbly part of the Turkish esy of keeping tracks on foreigners in their country.
Pete
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: stuart on July 30, 2005, 15:16:48 PM: phil if your excess credits are a problem you can always transfer them to me!!
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Post by: tribalelder on July 30, 2005, 20:44:19 PM: Must disagree. Unless the rules have changed. I did NOT need my passport to obtain my Simcard. See the earlier post. :)
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: canalman on July 30, 2005, 21:23:47 PM: Tribalelder, I must disagree with you as I was required to have my passport before buying a SIM card. You must have been very lucky!.
Pete
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Post by: Anne on July 30, 2005, 22:48:42 PM: Hubby needed his passport to buy ours last year too Pete
Anne
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Post by: canalman on July 30, 2005, 23:18:41 PM: Thanks Anne, I glad it wasn't just us; we got ours in the Turkcell shop along from the PTT in Fethiye almost opposite the new Mosque.
Pete
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Post by: tribalelder on July 31, 2005, 05:51:01 AM: Thats Turkey for you....Rules are Rules but sometimes they do sometimes they dont:D
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: Mark G on July 31, 2005, 19:54:43 PM: Do you have to have your phone un=blocked to accept one of these Turkish sim cards?

Mark
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: legless on July 31, 2005, 20:18:27 PM: Not Un Blocked 8) 8)

But Un Locked Mark 8)

Ron:D
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: valentine on July 31, 2005, 20:29:47 PM: You can get your phone unlocked when you buy your sim card.
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: kenkay on July 31, 2005, 21:13:36 PM: Hi All
I intended to take the mobile pre my last upgrade, get it unlocked, new SIM card and leave it in Turkey. Just a thought though - how much is it to buy a not too fancy mobile in Turkey?
Cheers
Ken
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: Anne on July 31, 2005, 23:25:42 PM: expensive!
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: lindacarl on July 31, 2005, 23:43:56 PM: We priced up a new mobile in Turkey just over a month ago. Prices are very comparable to here for a basic phone. There was nothing much in it, some were £1-2 more expensive but some were that much cheaper. Our friend Dave priced his all singing & dancing model & that surprisingly was just £5 more than he'd just paid here - after searching here for the best deal he could get.

We ended up just putting a new sim card in the phone - the old Digiturk sim was u/s as it had been 7 months since we used it. If it goes over 6 months then it is switched off & you lose the credits & the sim so have to have a new number.

Phones used to be expensive but we don't think they are any more. Might just have been the ones we looked at but we were looking at top & bottom end & found little difference.
Linda
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: kenkay on August 29, 2005, 23:05:19 PM: Hi
This is an old thread but I have a new question. Do you need to have your English sim card in the phone for the phone shop in Turkey to be able to unlock it? I am thinking of taking an older Nokia to leave out there.
Ken
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: lmaddy on August 30, 2005, 09:19:50 AM: I don't think so as we took an old Nokia - and I don't think we has a sim card init.

Lorraine
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: Anne on August 30, 2005, 12:27:48 PM: No Ken, we just took our phone.
Anne
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: kenkay on August 30, 2005, 20:22:05 PM: Thanks for that folk. I just wondered cos when I turn it on now it just says "insert SIM card" and there does not seem to be access to a menu.
Thanks again
Ken
Title: MOBILE PHONE TURKCELL SIMMCARD
Post by: mikeh on August 30, 2005, 22:03:09 PM: I bought my turkcell sim card last july installed it in an already unlocked phone - one problem thats not been mentioned is when I switched the phone all menu's displayed were in turkish. Furtunately I was able to step thru the menus to find the language one and turn on the english language with the aid of the manual. I could not have done it without manual or a helpful cell phone shop.