How can I get a mobile prepaid number from abroad?

alvaro893 · Post by **alvaro893** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:19 pm

Hello people!

I'm going to move to Finland next month, so I'd like get a mobile prepaid number (just SIM card) by post to my country (Spain) because I must be available when I arrive there. Is it possible? can some mobile network operator in Finland do it?
thanks!

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riku2 · Post by **riku2** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:12 pm

find a computer shop that does mail order for overseas customers. they sell the prepaid subscription sims but I don't know which finnish computer stores do mail order for customers outside of finland.

some possibles

http://www.mikromaja.fi/
http://www.beesting.fi/
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/

I'm not sure how prepaid sims are registered on the network. it might be that first registration must be done in Finland, so the card would not actually work in your phone until you get to finland. After that you might be able to travel abroad with it, but not before first registration.

Adrian42 · Post by **Adrian42** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:20 pm

riku2 wrote:I'm not sure how prepaid sims are registered on the network. it might be that first registration must be done in Finland, so the card would not actually work in your phone until you get to finland. After that you might be able to travel abroad with it, but not before first registration.

Only if it supports roaming at all.

A few years ago DNA prepaid did not support it.

alvaro893 · Post by **alvaro893** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:06 am

riku2 wrote:find a computer shop that does mail order for overseas customers. they sell the prepaid subscription sims but I don't know which finnish computer stores do mail order for customers outside of finland.

some possibles

http://www.mikromaja.fi/
http://www.beesting.fi/
http://www.verkkokauppa.com/

I'm not sure how prepaid sims are registered on the network. it might be that first registration must be done in Finland, so the card would not actually work in your phone until you get to finland. After that you might be able to travel abroad with it, but not before first registration.

thank you very much for the links. yes, I know that it don't work until I get to Finland (it does not a problem). I was searching in your links but I did not find mobile SIMs prepaid on these links.

riku2 · Post by **riku2** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:30 am

http://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/ ... at-PrePaid

Keravalainen · Post by **Keravalainen** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:32 am

Hi!
You actually don't need to buy the subscription before you arrive in Finland. When you arrive at Helsinki airport, you can buy a prepaid subscription in one of the coveniece stores there. Alepa is located in the arrivals hall, right after customs. R-kioski is on thr 2nd floor in the depature hall. The subscrition is operational immediately - no requirement for registration.

alvaro893 · Post by **alvaro893** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:31 am

riku2 wrote:http://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/ ... at-PrePaid

thanks I don't thought search "PrePaid"

Keravalainen wrote:Hi!
You actually don't need to buy the subscription before you arrive in Finland. When you arrive at Helsinki airport, you can buy a prepaid subscription in one of the coveniece stores there. Alepa is located in the arrivals hall, right after customs. R-kioski is on thr 2nd floor in the depature hall. The subscrition is operational immediately - no requirement for registration.

oh! thanks for the information. it's easy to see that you are Finnish

Keravalainen · Post by **Keravalainen** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:19 pm

Hi!
Yes, Alvaro, that's correct, and sorry for the typos. I'm Finnish, and we Finns tend to write our post in the Internet using a Nokia E7 phone, sitting in a summer cottage with no electricity in Hirvensalmi. Therefore some typos occur - the keys in the phone are so @$## small for my thick fingers.
- You're very observant.

alvaro893 · Post by **alvaro893** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:24 pm

Keravalainen wrote:Hi!
Yes, Alvaro, that's correct, and sorry for the typos. I'm Finnish, and we Finns tend to write our post in the Internet using a Nokia E7 phone, sitting in a summer cottage with no electricity in Hirvensalmi. Therefore some typos occur - the keys in the phone are so @$## small for my thick fingers.
- You're very observant.

E7 great mobile phone! (I like the Nokia phones without Windows). English is not my native language so the truth is that I do not see your typos, I guess you are Finnish because you know very good the Helsinki's Airport, your name seems to be FInnish and your Finland's Flag in your signature

and is quite possible that I have many typos than you. (my English is quite bad, specially speaking English)
By the way, how do you recharging your E7 with no electricity?

Näkemiin!

007 · Post by **007** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:23 pm

alvaro893 wrote:... how do you recharging your E7 with no electricity?

using a car charger, when there's no electricity at cottage.

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