How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
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How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
I REALLY need to make some calls today. I arrived a week ago and bought a SIM card from the bus driver to hotel for $5. It’s expired. It can’t be topped up. I was in Cambodia all of ten minutes before getting scammed.
Hotel staff says they won’t get me a SIM card. No deliveries are allowed here. What can I do to get a SIM card?
Hotel staff says they won’t get me a SIM card. No deliveries are allowed here. What can I do to get a SIM card?
Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
Nothing. Use the Wifi in your quarantine place to call with skype, viber or whatever.chrisjones wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:31 am I REALLY need to make some calls today. I arrived a week ago and bought a SIM card from the bus driver to hotel for $5. It’s expired. It can’t be topped up. I was in Cambodia all of ten minutes before getting scammed.
Hotel staff says they won’t get me a SIM card. No deliveries are allowed here. What can I do to get a SIM card?
Are you 100% sure the sim expired?
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Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
Yes I am sure. I have a $1top up card but it won’t top up and I chatted with Metphone and they say it’s deactivated and I have to go in person to their office.
I have to call my family and they don’t use Skype.
I have to call my family and they don’t use Skype.
Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
Maybe e-mail them? You can voice call with Skype too if you buy credit.chrisjones wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:40 am Yes I am sure. I have a $1top up card but it won’t top up and I chatted with Metphone and they say it’s deactivated and I have to go in person to their office.
I have to call my family and they don’t use Skype.
Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
when you move overseas not everything works like back home as your finding out, facebook messenger, skype, whatsapp, email people use to communicate with those back home, all this should be sorted before you left. Plan and have a backup plan, good thing is once out of quarantine you can throw back lots of 50c beerschrisjones wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:40 am Yes I am sure. I have a $1top up card but it won’t top up and I chatted with Metphone and they say it’s deactivated and I have to go in person to their office.
I have to call my family and they don’t use Skype.
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Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
If you have the Wing app, you can order online. Have it delivered to reception.
Alternatively, if you have an iPhone, you can buy and download a cheap eSIM on the Airalo app
https://www.airalo.com/
Or you can ask someone to buy an eSIM at Cellcard and send you a picture of the QR. You can then install the eSIM on your phone.
Edit... I see. If absolutely no deliveries allowed but if you have an iPhone, you can ask someone to buy an eSIM, then send you a picture of the QR which you can then use to install on your phone.
Alternatively, if you have an iPhone, you can buy and download a cheap eSIM on the Airalo app
https://www.airalo.com/
Or you can ask someone to buy an eSIM at Cellcard and send you a picture of the QR. You can then install the eSIM on your phone.
Edit... I see. If absolutely no deliveries allowed but if you have an iPhone, you can ask someone to buy an eSIM, then send you a picture of the QR which you can then use to install on your phone.
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Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
I have never heard of an esim. How does it work? The phone can make and receive calls with no physical sim installed? Can I buy it myself online? Or do I need someone else to buy it?
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Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
Where are you? I'm on the case. I could also try topping up your sim via my wing account but the funds will probably go out of my account and not onto your card.
Hotel?
Hotel?
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Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
Yep.. it's a normal sim in e-format. Works on Google Pixel phones and iPhoneschrisjones wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:13 am I have never heard of an esim. How does it work? The phone can make and receive calls with no physical sim installed? Can I buy it myself online? Or do I need someone else to buy it?
https://cellulardata.ubigi.com/help-cen ... -esim-ios/
You can call and receive calls, send and receive text/SMS messages, subscribe to data packages just like any other regular sim card. I'm using so I know what I'm talking about. As you can see, I have 5 sims on my phone. Only 1 is a physical sim. The rest are of course eSIMs.
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Re: How can I get a SIM card in quarantine?
From the website it doesn’t look like a normal sim at all. It says you don’t even get a phone number. It’s data only. I have internet access at the hotel, a data only sim does not help me one bit.
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