Post by fidobsa on Sept 4, 2016 10:23:14 GMT 1
I lost my last phone at the security check in Budapest airport so had to get a new phone and a new sim card. The old card was Tomato but the local phone shop that deals with Tomato is the VIP shop in Koprivnica. I wanted to get the card from the proper phone shop so they could tell me how to get internet data as well as credit for calls / text messages. I wanted a pay as you go sim rather than a monthly contract but it seems that the VIP sim card I got has to be topped up every month anyway, at least for the data aspect, I'm not sure about the calls. Do they all operate like this or do any of the networks operate a proper pay as you go system where you can use the network until you run out of credit?
In Hungary I used to top up the phone at bank cash machines and it was very easy but in Croatia I have been buying the vouchers which are a nightmare as I always seem to do something wrong. I got one yesterday but have tried and failed about 10 times to do it. I expected to have trouble here at the house as it is a bad signal area but I kept driving round and trying in different places but every time I got a warning saying that it was on roaming. I would accept that then get another error message. I don't know whether you need to still have credit to make the *103 call for topping up; whether all the places I tried had no VIP coverage or if the problem is down to the phone being duel sim. Perhaps it defaults to the Hungarian Vodaphone sim and was trying to do the top up call on that? Do you have to remove the second sim for top ups?
In Hungary I used to top up the phone at bank cash machines and it was very easy but in Croatia I have been buying the vouchers which are a nightmare as I always seem to do something wrong. I got one yesterday but have tried and failed about 10 times to do it. I expected to have trouble here at the house as it is a bad signal area but I kept driving round and trying in different places but every time I got a warning saying that it was on roaming. I would accept that then get another error message. I don't know whether you need to still have credit to make the *103 call for topping up; whether all the places I tried had no VIP coverage or if the problem is down to the phone being duel sim. Perhaps it defaults to the Hungarian Vodaphone sim and was trying to do the top up call on that? Do you have to remove the second sim for top ups?