Talk:France/@comment-3564598-20160626194336

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned in the comments, but:

I am currently in Nice. I noticed that things are a bit different here than in Paris, which I visited a couple of years ago. It seems that on Sunday, it is mostly third-party dealer stores that are open, which look very much like the carrier's own stores, and I bumped into the following problems:

1. Orange third-party dealer in large shopping center does not do prepaid anything. None of the other Orange boutiques nearby seem to be open on Sunday.

2. SFR dealer (I think is a dealer, unless "espace SFR" is a general term for stores, corporate or not) wants to charge me 20Eur for a La Carte starter kit. With no credit included. So I would effectively be paying 30Eur for 1GB data alone. Just like Orange, none of the other SFR boutiques nearby seem to be open on Sunday.

The lesson here seems to be that for people arriving on Sunday, either roam from home/elsewhere in Europe or go with a Free/MVNO SIM from a tabac. Or maybe this problem is not present in larger cities?