Talk:Germany/@comment-2003:45:4B05:B100:EDB5:12F0:3CE3:4354-20180312212341

Hi! Very informative article, too bad I haven't seen it before getting a sim. I just recently purchased a prepaid SIM, Blau M from Rossman. I initially went to Vodafone but they were charging me 45€, thats for the card + activation. It's the CallYa prepaid with 10€ balance included. So I went to another store, Telekom. The Magenta card is for 10€, free for activation, only, the guy asks for a German passport which of course I don't have, I hold a Philippines passport. Thus, I ended up buying from Rossman. I initially went to have my sim registration via PostIdent video chat, there was no waiting time but they can't validate my passport as it is not in their system and they had me go to the post office for personal validation. So I went to the post office and the whole process is like just 10mins and the lady told me that all is done.

I'm just not sure how long the activation will take though because my SIM card is still locked, or is it normal for brand new sim card here in Germany for it to be locked on purchase and supply a PIN/PUK code or do I have to wait for my network to activate my SIM and unlocked it for me? I've use my phone on different countries already and the SIM that I used weren't locked on purchase.