Talk:France/@comment-108.77.113.82-20130513165020

The answer is YES. It can be easily done.

I was in France April 24, 2013 to May 10, 2013, and I walked into an Orange shop in Albi, France with my factory-unlocked iPhone and walked out in less than 30 minutes later with a working iPhone on the Orange network. All I needed was my passport and adress of my B&B. The cost? Less than 20 euros. The SIM costs something like 8 euros and I added more talk time for my 3 weeks stay in France and Voila! It was done!! The phone worked during my entire stay in France. No contract. No other fees.

However, I must say the phone is much less useful than I had expected, because the person on the other side of the line most likely will not be speaking English. I was shocked that relatively few people speaks English despite the two country's close proximity to each other and the history of interactions goes back more than 1,000 years.