How can I get a prepay SIM card before going to Greece?
I'm going to Greece with my girlfriend, but she's going for a conference and I'm just tagging along.
I'd like to get a couple of prepaid SIM cards before I go so that she can get in touch with me when she'd finished with the conference.
Is there a way to get prepaid SIM cards for Greece from the UK?
I've looked at Holiday Phone, but their prices seem extortionate compared to what I've managed to piece together from various websites which seem to only have been half localized.
Internet would be a plus but it's not a requirement.
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I after extensive research, I bought a prepaid SIM card from www.maxroam.com for roaming around Europe.
I am traveling around Eastern Europe (in Bulgaria right now). The prepaid SIM is based out of Ireland I believe.
Acquiring a prepaid SIM specifically for Greece I imagine would involve walking into the mobile store and physically signing papers.
My guess is your best bet is contacting someone in Greece to do that for you. If you are dead set on getting a prepaid SIM specifically for Greece, perhaps hiring a virtual assistant in Athens for this task?
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Can I buy a Greek SIM card online?
Buy your Greece sim card online If you want to make it all easy then just order a sim card for traveling to Greece online. This international prepaid sim card will be send to your home address before your trip and is pre-activated.Which SIM card is best in Greece?
If you want to buy the best SIM card in Greece, I recommend going with COSMOTE or What's Up. COSMOTE has the best overall network, with the best coverage and fastest speeds \u2013 even for 5G NR. What's Up is a COSMOTE sub-brand with slightly lower prices but full access to the COSMOTE network.Can you buy prepaid SIM cards at the airport?
Most international airports will have an official phone company kiosk in the airport. If you need a local SIM, head straight there after you land. You can also buy pre-loaded, local SIM cards on Amazon so you can start using your phone immediately after you land in your destination.How much is the SIM card in Greece?
Prepaid SIM Costs The SIM card itself costs five euros (with no credit) in store, and you'll need to top it up with a minimum of \u20ac10 before you can use it. The default package has 250 minutes of calls and 500MB of data, valid for a month, which costs \u20ac8.50.Buying a Sim Card for Greece at Athens Airport 🇬🇷
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For the benefit of any travellers who come to an EU country from outside the EU, please note that as of July 2017 there are two new EU regulation, which are good and bad at the same time.
The good part is that within the EU roaming fees are pretty much abandoned. That means if you travel through multiple EU countries pick one SIM card for your Internet needs and it will do. It will also work well when it comes to outgoing calls. Just you will be assigned a GSM number from the country the SIM card belongs to which means it may be expensive for other people to call you. If this is not an issue, you'd be fine ...
Except ...
The rules on making sure each SIM card is clearly registered to a person have become stricter. In the past you often could buy a SIM card in a kiosk, a supermarket or even from a vending machine, register it with your name and a pretty arbitrary address (use a phone dictionary or google any address) and you'd be all set. Now they want to see papers.
That has led to for example some supermarkets to even stop selling SIM cards as they don't want to go through that hassle. You'll not have an issue to walk into any GSM shop, show your passwort and have a card activated for you, but as the original poster wrote: It means to know where to find one, finding it open ...
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