Talk:O2 Germany/@comment-195.50.183.227-20170909080931

Purchased a pair of O2 SIMs after arriving in Frankfurt yesterday. Had a bit of trouble, but eventually made it work.

First O2 store we tried said they were out of SIMs, and directed us to Saturn.

Found a second O2 store, and they were willing to sell us prepaid SIMs but told us it would be cheaper at Saturn (10 Euro for SIM with the Smart Plan at Saturn vs. 10 Euro for the SIM plus 15 Euro for the All-In plan at O2). I got the impression the O2 stores didn't want to sell us prepaid SIMs.

Got to Saturn. Very busy, but had a sales person activate a pair of SIMs on the Smart plan using our passports and hotel address. 10 Euro each. We thought we were done.

Put the SIMs in our phones. Took about an hour before the registration completed. I did not turn off cellular data, because I saw the sales person select the Smart data package. Unfortunataly, there seems to be a timing issue when starting up the account: - phone started using data. I was charge 0.99 euro for 30MB on the default tariff. - account automatically attempted to add the Smart tariff for 9.99, but my balance was now 9.01, and it failed. O2 sent me a text message.

I then had to purchase a 15 euro top up (smallest available) to be able to purchase a data plan. More expensive than I wanted, but it's working now.