4/11/2024 0 Comments Dordogne france map november 2018![]() ![]() When I got to Santarem was told that I had used all the data? How? I bought another card for Eu 20, with a Portuguese provider, NOS, this was a data only card with unlimited data so I could use What's App anywhere along the Portuguese part of the Camino. It stopped working after five days although I had hardly used it. I had been advised to buy a SIM at the Vodaphone booth for my iPhone X when I landed at Lisbon. When I got home, I just popped my old SIM card back in, so make sure you save your original SIM card. If you don’t want to do it through the app, you can top it off at most stores and gas stations in Spain. To add more time or data, or renew after 30 days when it expires, you can just do it through their app tied to a credit card. That’s 2,000 minutes to talk to someone in the States if that’s what you want to do! It is great too if you have a mapping program, like I use, because you don’t worry about not having enough data. The plan I will get is €25 for 20 gb of data and 2,000 minutes of international and national minutes calling, and 750 minutes to other Lebara numbers. I am going back to Spain and doing my fourth Camino in August and just looked up Lebara’s plans and they haven’t changed much. You will still have all your contacts and apps on your phone! It’s simple! With Lebara the SIM card was part of the original cost. ![]() You can easily do it yourself, but she popped out my original card and put in the Lebara one and I was ready to go in few minutes. I actually got my SIM card from a vendor in front of the Orange store in Madrid. I am surprised by how few people know about Lebara cell service, it is great and cheap! I have used it twice on Caminos, the last time May, 2019, when I trekked the Camino de Madrid to Santiago. It makes life on the Camino easier and more pleasurable. Seriously, I don’t know why anyone would use any other service that is so much more expensive, and with less data and call time. Having the large amount of data was great for me because I used the live Camino Madrid map app and it kept me from getting lost in those unmarked and remote places. You do have to install their sims card, but you still have all your data, contacts, etc., on your cell phone, so you can still use your phone like normal. But, once to add more time for €5 or so, you keep all your unused data and call time from the previous month. If you use up the data or talk time, which I did because I was there more than a month, you can just add on more directly from the app, or even at a store, gas station, etc. It’s 4G, but works well in almost all the places from Madrid to Sahagun, to Santiago. Yes, that’s right! That includes calling time in Spain. Lebara has numerous different plans, and the one I had was €20, which gave me 20gb of data and 1,000 minutes international calling time for one month. Make sure you save your old card, and just pop it back in when your done. It took five minutes for her to pop in the Lebara sims card, and I was good to go. I had used it on a previous Camino and loved it, and when I got to Madrid I just signed up with a sales vendor that was actually outside the Orange store at the Plaza. On my last Camino in May/June, Camino de Madrid/Camino Francis, I used Lebara for the second time on a Camino. I am surprised that no one has mentioned Lebara. We can help with that too.īy the way, if you are using T-mobile or Google Fi in the US I think you are good to go without having to get a new SIM card at all. So, as mentioned earlier, if your phone is able to run on a GSM cellular network and is unlocked you can put in a Spanish SIM card. Your provider can also unlock it for a bit. When you can switch compatible cards in your phone at will your phone is deemed unlocked. Sometimes you have had to use their service for a certain length of time before they will allow this. If you do have a GSM card or can use one the next thing to ask is if your carrier will allow you to put in a different SIM card for a vacation. You can still make calls over WiFi (once connected) using various apps. If not it looks like you will not be able to use the phone the regular way in Spain using the cell network. If currently using CDMA ask if the phone would work if the card were replaced with a GSM one. Check with your phone carrier to see if it is working on a GSM network or a CDMA network. ![]()
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