Talk:France/@comment-89.159.183.196-20110804151637

Can someone please help? I bought a droid pro global unlocked from Verizon in the U.S. before coming to Paris. The people at the store assured me that it would work with sim cards in all countries overseas. Then I bought an Orange mobicarte. I had done my research and found many successful stories, like the ones here, of people using unlocked phones with the mobicarte. But so far it has not worked for me at all!!! And I've spent way too much time with the people in the Orange store who can't give me a straight story. First, I bought the mobicarte sim and added voice. The lady told me that to add a month of internet for 9 Euros, I just had to press #123# and then follow the instructions. The voice and texting worked fine. But I had no access to data (aside from wifi). Then I tried to press #123# to add the plan for 9 Euros. The first problem, as I later found out, does not have to do with Orange, but with Verizon: They seem to have disabled USSD codes like #123#. So it doesn't work for me to enter this. I did a google search on this and it turns out you have to disable the mobile tracker for USSD codes to work, but unfortunately, I can't find that option on my droid pro. I'm not sure it exists. But regardless of that aside, when I asked Orange to add internet to my card remotely on their computer (without using the #123# process), it still would not work. Both the customer service line and the workers at the Orange store told me that the problem is with the "parameters" of the internet. They couldn't really explain what this means. One guy at the store insisted that it's impossible to have a data plan with an Orange mobicarte on a foreign phone, even if it is unlocked and supports an Orange voice plan. He said that only those smart phones sold at the Orange store will support an Orange data plan. He said that it may be a different situation at different carriers in France, but that is how Orange operates. From the many success stories of using foreign unlocked phones with Orange mobicartes, I pretty sure he's completely wrong. Unless this is a recent development? Any thoughts??? Thanks.