Talk:Germany/@comment-4350173-20110826085229

After wasting a fair bit of time trying to sort out a SIM etc. for a trip to Germany, here are a few suggestions: - unlock your phone a bit in advance of the trip as it may take some days to sort out - a fair number of these operators' SIMs are available at a wide range of retailers, but if you are using an iPhone or another device that needs a micro-SIM bear in mind that at the moment they are hard to get except by ordering online or over the phone. However note that the fonic SIM has perforations so it can be broken out as a micro SIM - if you are ordering online you will need a German delivery address; whether this works with a foreign (e.g. UK) credit card I don't know - Google Chrome browser will ask you if you want to translate German web pages and does a good job with the forms you need to fill in when registering/ordering etc. on the operator's web site - if the thought of cutting a SIM down to a micro-SIM; or of trying to sort out ordering or registration on a German website is just too much hassle then the best bet might be to go for something like T-Mobile. Next time that's what I'd try first since it would probably be much less hassle (hopefully they would have micro-SIM in their shops and fully enable/unlock it on the spot). Daily internet access at 1€ / day is good value for short trips, and if you mainly use Skype for calls then the higher call prices compared with the online operators won't make much difference if any. The other big operators probably have similar PAYG tariff.

Viel Spass!