- MOST PEOPLE ENDING UP WITH MASSIVE BILLS AFTER THE HOLIDAY
Did you know that you do get charged for receving calls when you are abroad ?
It can be pretty much expensive especially if you have many friends who wants to talk to you often...
So ,what one should do ?
well , you do not answer the calls but only the messages
Or you use phone cards (sold in shops ) and use the phone-boxes ...
Or ,you buy a Turkish mobile with Turkish SIM card ,so the incoming calls will not effect your wallet ...
WERE CAN I TELEPHONE IN MOST ECONOMICAL WAY ?
Well , I would say The Post Office in Sarigerme.
You can buy Phone Cards from the Shops in the Village and use them on phoneboxes provided along the main street of the Village or at the Post Office.I am sure shops in your Hotel do sell too , do I need to mention that it can be expensive ? It can be even more expensive if you do choose to make phonecalls from the reception and you may feel your eyes are flooting out of your skull once you hear the bill
Q: CAN I USE MY MOBILE PHONE IN TURKEY with Turkish Sim Card ?
A: Yes, you can, though if you're planning to stay for more than a few weeks and wish to use a Turkish SIM card in a UK phone, you should bring your receipt and documentation for the phone with you and register it with Turkish Customs on arrival. If you don't do this, you may risk having the connection cut off
If you wish to speak somebody about it , simply visit www.iantek.co.uk
ARE YOU PLANING TO STAY MORE THEN FEW WEEKS ? THEN CARRY ON READING
1. People with ROAMING telephones using a provider from home such as Vodafone are apparently exempt from the new regulations. Thus the following notes apply to phones which will use a Turkish Chip. (the right way to keep costs down.)
2. Turkey has apparently identified a problem where stolen phones are being dumped here, hence the new regulations.
3. Mobiles using a Turkish Chip have to be registered wherever they were purchased or they are likely to be cut off.
4. ASSUMING your phone is not registered then read the following.
5. If you purchased a Turkish phone and have the original receipt then take it to your local Turkcell agent together with your passport and they should be able to register your phone.
6. With any other phone purchased outside Turkey if you have the original receipt then take it plus your passport (one person per passport) to a designated agent which means a Turkcell shop in a county Mugla ,Then they will register your phone.
7. When you enter Turkey from abroad you should see the customs just before leaving the hall. Insist on them signing an entry form. They will have a stack of forms available. They will note the passport number (one phone per passport), the flight number, phone serial number (*#06#)
and will give you a stamped certificate to that effect. A receipt does not seem to be necessary. Note only one phone per passport and you must be there as well. At Ataturk Airport in Istanbul there are signs telling you to register your mobile phone with customs (not sure about DALAMAN Airport ) as you come through the airport, and a desk with two people on it who seem to know about what's going on. A straight GSM phone is free but if a radio is incorporated they appear to charge 20YTL.
8. Now take the Customs certificate plus passport (with the person on the passport present) and phone to one of the designated Turkcell offices and they will register your phone. You do NOT need a receipt of original purchase in this case.
9. FIRST check that you are not already registered. Insist at the local office that they check if you are already Turkcell registered. That could be the case if you had a running contract with spare units last Dec 2005. At that time Turkcell will have deducted 50 units to keep the contract running and will have automatically registered your phone.
10. Also ask the local Turkcell office to check if the Government site has registered your phone. Quite likely they will say it is unregistered even if you are registered with Turkcell. So if you then receive a notice saying you will be cut off you have 2 days in which to ask Turkcell head Office to make sure that the Government site is updated.
11. The site address for the Government is http://imei.tk.gov.tr/