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sugarkane59
Joined: 10 Jun 2009
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:01 am Post subject: Pagers |
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Hi,
Is it possible to use pagers in Korea? I basically just want to be able to text short messages - do you know any cellular providers that do this?
Thanks. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| can't you just use your phone to send text messages?? If it's overseas you want to text just send them off the internet |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| I'll sell you my Motorola 삐삐 I bought back in 1994. Yes, I've still got it and my old Motorola phone that is the size of a brick and weighs about the same too. Actually, I wonder if they might actually be worth something in a few more years... |
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sugarkane59
Joined: 10 Jun 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:04 am Post subject: -- |
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Yes, it was pointed out to me that I would be going back to the dark ages, but I thought you couldn't get a contract on a mobile phone if you weren't a proper resident and I don't want to fork out loads for a new pay-as-you-go phone. I wonder if my Nokia would work? I was in Japan on holiday recently and my sim didn't even get a network, but if I just put a Korean one in, maybe it would?
I have a Nokia 6300 - do you think this would work? |
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Carla
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:00 am Post subject: Re: -- |
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| sugarkane59 wrote: |
Yes, it was pointed out to me that I would be going back to the dark ages, but I thought you couldn't get a contract on a mobile phone if you weren't a proper resident and I don't want to fork out loads for a new pay-as-you-go phone. I wonder if my Nokia would work? I was in Japan on holiday recently and my sim didn't even get a network, but if I just put a Korean one in, maybe it would?
I have a Nokia 6300 - do you think this would work? |
Actually, if you are doing texts, pay as you go is pretty cheap. Just the calls get expensive. And that way, you can actually reply. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: Re: -- |
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| sugarkane59 wrote: |
but if I just put a Korean one in, maybe it would?
I have a Nokia 6300 - do you think this would work? |
No, there are no sims in korea it just goes through a network and straight onto the phone, not the sim card like in Ireland and the U.K.
If you don't mind using a pager then you won't mind using an older phone, just go to the phone shop and buy a 2nd hand phone, you will get decent enough ones for less than W100,000 and then just top it up as you go. I rarely used my one, spent about 50,000 in a year and a half and the only reason I topped up that amount is because the time expired on the top up i had previously purchased. |
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