Talk:France/@comment-82.123.181.172-20120407063155/@comment-212.194.216.221-20120407232827

Congrats! I've had the opposite experience as you today.. Went to the Orange near our hotel here in Boulogne and was the first customer today (Holy Saturday) at 10am. I was told from the get go that it would take 24 hours to activate the card before I could add the Internet.. I wanted to get the Internet Max for 1 month so I could give it to my parents who are visiting in a couple weeks after I used it for a few days.. And of course they were correct. They seemed to have activated it in store (I watched them and they gave me a printout confirming they put it in the system), took a copy of my passport and local address (hotel) here. It's now 1:26am on Easter Sunday and I still cannot activate Internet Max through the on screen #123# menu. I get something to the notion of "please go back to the store you purchased the SIM from and show proper ID" (which signals to me that registration is still pending..) I hope this is done by tomorrow because we leave on Tuesday! argh, what a waste if not! I've been trying hourly with data turned off..