In case it is of value to someone, in Vienna we bought a SIM card from 'Woww!!'.
Unlimited data for 30 days for €20.
Put it into one phone and also turned on hot spot for the other phone. We then both used it solidly for every thing from Google maps to my daughter's endless need for social media.
Also for streaming Netflix, Prime or whatever to the TV, and Spotify etc. etc.
Apparently we've used +/- 30GB so far.
Very good deal I think, please don't disillusion me.
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Useful!
What's WOWW!!, a website or a shop?
Does it just expire or do you need to cancel it?
Often the problem with "distance" buying (internet) is that you need an address, and I've known hotel addresses not be acceptable (and is olden days, a card with a non-national address).
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>> What's WOWW!!, a website or a shop?
A chain of shops with large yellow shop fronts. Everywhere, including the airport. Probably on the Web as well, I didn't check.
>> Does it just expire or do you need to cancel it?
Just expires. I think you actually cannot renew it even if you wanted to.
>> Often the problem with "distance" buying (internet) is that you need an address,
We had to show a picture ID and they recorded the details. We gave no address or contact details.
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I know nothing about their Internet offerings, we walked into a shop.
But this is them..
wowww.at/
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...that should be WOWWW...
wowww.at
(part corrected by Mark as I typed)
Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Sat 18 Sep 21 at 12:41
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Thank you, I didn't realise I'd got it wrong.
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HAd a thought, Can you still get "burner" phones?
I assume you can, get a cheap phone from Ali express or similar with a Chinese IMEI, and wander into your local Vodaphone shop, hand over a tenner and get a PAYG Sim?
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 18 Sep 21 at 13:25
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Yes, unless it's changed recently.
The last time one of my daughters briefly visited the UK without me, a gentlemen formerly from around here, did exactly that and gave it to her.
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you'd have thought the zippy watchers would have put a stop to that by now.
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Now you've said that, I vaguely remember that there was some SIM activation process, though I have no idea as to what it was.
Or maybe they're just laying traps....
Last edited by: No FM2R on Sat 18 Sep 21 at 15:34
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The difficulty now may be to find a true PAYG card rather than a rolling contract (even if only 30days). I have one from 3 and I'm sure providers like Lebara offer them.
Other question is whether you can top up with cash. Using my 3 card as a burner would be futile as it's linked to my debit card. OTOH there are anonymous pre-paid debit cards.
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The drawback of living in a country where a utility bill is regarded as ID.
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I gave up an EE dongle which was costing me £15/month for 15GB, and got a SMARTY SIM paying £10/month for 30GB. It is 1 month renewable, and you can pause auto renew easily on your account login.
I think it can be paused for 6/12.
I use the phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot to work 2 laptops when we are out & about.
Speed depends on the strength of the phone signal where you are.
It allows EU roaming with a 12GB limit per month.
You can pay differing amounts for less data than 30GB.
I have cut back the data I buy for the last couple of months when I have wanted to revive it for a month.
As a phone you get unlimited calls.
No connection with them, but it is working for me.
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>>a SMARTY SIM paying £10/month for 30GB
Excellent suggestion, thank you.
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>you'd have thought the zippy watchers would have put a stop to that by now.
I think they're busy at the moment trying new and innovative ways of reducing violent crime. An article in a leading news journal today reported that Hampshire police are to receive extra funding.
"It comes as Essex's policing force found that putting officers on 15-minute-long uniformed patrols in crime hotspots, at targeted times, helped cut violent crime.
The force said officers targeted 20 hotspots, each of 150 metres by 150 metres, with short, high-visibility patrols during a pilot last year.
The tactic resulted in a 73.5% drop in violent crime and 31.9% fall in street crime on days when patrols visited, compared with days they did not."
Who would have thought that the presence of uniformed coppers on the streets reduced crime?
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SIM cards - smokie
