Talk:France/@comment-69.126.75.20-20110919123040

Just back from France. I bought a Mobicart SIM from Orange for my US-locked iPhone 4 and here's my experience. I had great success getting 'registered' (name & address) and topped up at the Orange store in Lecourbe, where the agent I worked with spoke great english. He offered to set up Internet Max for me on my iPhone but I declined as I needed to get my Gevey Pro adapter working to unlock my US phone first. After the unlock I stepped through the options and THOUGHT Internet Max was working, and I had received a text letting me know my registration had been processed, I had to go to an Orange store in Bordeaux to get the staff to call and actually purchase Internet Max. I don't know what the problem was. Everything worked fine for internet. I tried using VPN to prevent credits being drained for using email but that didn't seem to work, which is odd. I then arrived at my final destination and found I had no Wifi so I turned on tethering to use my laptop through the iPhone. Within 5-10 minutes my SIM seems to have been deactivated, with the phone saying "No Signal". I deactivated tethering. I went to several Orange stores during my remaining travels but found the dreaded "No English" staff who were effectively no help at all. I'd love to know what happened, and I saw that while my SIM didn't work their computers said I still had approx $3 Euros credit on the account. DO NOT TETHER on the iPhone 4 or you may be summarily disconnected.