Talk:France/@comment-88.173.73.98-20100830131449/@comment-193.253.141.64-20100831214339

OK. Internet is charged at 50 cts a minute if you're not on a dataplan. By default, your SIM will never be on any dataplan, and I wouldn't trust store employees to put you on the right one (or any plan, actually). The thing to do, if you have an iPhone or Android is to DISABLE 3G altogether, before you put your SIM in your phone. Otherwise your account will be sucked dry in no time just by the backgrounder services (mail, skype etc). Then you need to use the #123# menu to get your dataplan activated. I'm going to update the description above because I think it's actually not very clear. Calling customer service generally sucks since they charge like over 30 cts a minute. The #123# menu is the way to go since it is written, the 220 menu is spoken which is pretty much impossible for non-French speakers. If you don't speak French all else will be difficult or impossible (even the #123# menu is difficult if you don't speak French).