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Hi, my wife and I were advised to purchase sims cards each in Spain. We are coming to Spain for a 3 month stay in Feb, Mar & Apr. We have been advised that a local sim card could be more cost efficient. Our present provider O2 only allows 63 days as "being reasonable".
1 Which sim card would you recommend?
2 Can we still keep our existing mob numbers? This would be essential.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Steve
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:14am
Any of the UK pay as you go sim such as Lebara works fine in Spain though your mobile number would be different.
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 7:42am
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We use Lobster Mobile You buy a month at a time & don't buy when you don't need it, e.g when away from Spain - number retained so long as you buy once a year. There are various data plans available
Cannot say how costs pan out for regular use, we don't use it much at all, as our time in Spain is included within our UK providers monthly plan, so we only have it for when you are required to have a Spanish number - deliveries of larger &/or signed for items usually
A different SIM comes with a different number, if retaining your UK number is essential, I cannot see how a different SIM will work for you
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 3:23pm
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Lobster-i agree with other post
Phone to uk Usa etc free -good value and I,ve used them since I came here
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:00pm
Steve34 wrote on Wed Aug 9, 2023 9:04pm:
Hi, my wife and I were advised to purchase sims cards each in Spain. We are coming to Spain for a 3 month stay in Feb, Mar & Apr. We have been advised that a local sim card could be more cost efficient. Our present provider O2 only allows 63 days as "being reasonable"....
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1 Which sim card would you recommend?
2 Can we still keep our existing mob numbers? This would be essential.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Steve
If your UK SIM has free usage in Spain, just use that, no need for a second SIM
Andrew14 wrote on Thu Aug 10, 2023 7:42am:
We use Lobster Mobile You buy a month at a time & don't buy when you don't need it, e.g when away from Spain - number retained so long as you buy once a year. There are various data plans available
Cannot say how costs pan out for regular use, we don't use it much at all, as our time in Spain is included within our UK providers monthly plan, so we only have it for when you are required to have a Spanish number - deliveries of larger &/or signed for items usually...
Read more...
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A different SIM comes with a different number, if retaining your UK number is essential, I cannot see how a different SIM will work for you
I entirely agree.
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