Mobile Phone

When visiting a foreign country, especially for business purposes, you need to stay reachable for your business partners as well as friends and family back in your home country... and, therefore you need your mobile phone. Unfortunately roaming costs can make using your mobile phone cost prohibitive, but there are several solutions which can help you keep your mobile costs low, while you still remain reachable...

 

 

SIM card rental

Instead of buying a SIM card, you can simply rent one during your stay abroad. You also have the possiblity of forwarding your original number, so that people can continue to reach you on your usual number while using a local SIM card.

To find out more about SIM card rental, please click here.

 

SIM card purchase

Of course if you are more often in France, it makes more sense to buy a local SIM card, which you can use during each of your visits. You even have the possiblity to buy a United WorldWide Prepaid GSM SIM card that works in over 80 countries with no roaming charges, if you are travelling a lot and to different countries.

To find out more about buying a SIM card, please click here.

 

Wireless Internet

If you want to use your laptop during your trip to France, you simply need to get yourself a wireless card and you'll be able to use the free wireless internet hotspots which are popping up around Paris.

Thanks to a city-sponsored scheme, over 400 new public hotspots are available around Paris since June, including in parks, libraries, and city museums. These public wifi hotspots will be accessible from 7 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. in most cases. To get a glimpse of where to get wired starting mid-month, you can consult an interactive site map.

 

If you want to read more about free wireless Internet in Paris, please click here.

 

If you don't want to get wet during your trip to France, click here to get more information on Paris' weather!