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RufusW
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Location: Busan
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 Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:38 am Post subject: Cheapest PAYG in Seoul |
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I presume you can buy a 'Pay As You Go' phone in Korea...so...what's the cheapest one out there at the moment (including SIM card)?
Also, what's the cheapest SIM card available and what cost are looking at for calls to within the country?
Presumably a mobile from India would work fine on Korea's network?
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Cheapest PAYG in Seoul |
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| RufusW wrote: |
I presume you can buy a 'Pay As You Go' phone in Korea...so...what's the cheapest one out there at the moment (including SIM card)?
Also, what's the cheapest SIM card available and what cost are looking at for calls to within the country?
Presumably a mobile from India would work fine on Korea's network?
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated! |
Your Indian phone won't work here.
Phones here do NOT use SIM cards (it is a CDMA network).
You can get used phones for as little as 30k won.
Any phone you buy here can be used for a PAYG phone.
PAYG phones get about 26 minutes of talk time for 10k won.
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RufusW
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Pretty expensive talktime....
Thanks for the info! |
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CentralCali
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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To stretch the talk time, you should buy an international calling card. You can use those for making domestic calls. The number you dial to use the card is a toll-free number, which is great here. Those do not count against your paid minutes. Another advantage of the Korean system is you don't pay for receiving calls either. Your pre-paid minutes have an expiration date, so be sure to slap 10k won on the phone every month.
You can avoid the whole issue by getting a post-pay phone. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:39 am Post subject: Re: Cheapest PAYG in Seoul |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Your Indian phone won't work here. |
With you so far...
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| Phones here do NOT use SIM cards (it is a CDMA network). |
The 3G networks here are UMTS/WCDMA (despite the name, it's the next generation of GSM technology) and they DO use SIM cards (actually USIM, the next generation, but I believe the phones are backward-compatible and can read older SIMs).
BUT... the Korean carriers' systems are locked up tight: you can't just pop a Korean SIM into a non-Korean phone and expect it to work. It won't. There are some recent threads to that effect in this forum. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: Re: Cheapest PAYG in Seoul |
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| Ut videam wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
| Your Indian phone won't work here. |
With you so far...
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| Phones here do NOT use SIM cards (it is a CDMA network). |
The 3G networks here are UMTS/WCDMA (despite the name, it's the next generation of GSM technology) and they DO use SIM cards (actually USIM, the next generation, but I believe the phones are backward-compatible and can read older SIMs).
BUT... the Korean carriers' systems are locked up tight: you can't just pop a Korean SIM into a non-Korean phone and expect it to work. It won't. There are some recent threads to that effect in this forum. |
Bottom line:
The only phones that work in Korea - with a Korean phone number (not global roaming) are Korean phones
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even at that, the PHONE is locked into a particular carrier/company (there is NO option for an unlocked phone).
If you want to change companies you have to change phones too (but you can take your number with you).
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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