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can I use my mobile in France?

I know this sound a bit thick but I have never taken my phone abroad and can find no answer on Nokia web site.

This time I need to use my phone as a contact between me my wife and our twelve year old daughter.

also what are the charges and are they the same for a call to my wife/daughter  200 yards away in the same shopping centre as they are to call home? You see er in doors and the sprog have what is commonly called retail syndrome which causes me to have sever open wallet surgery.

bruce

how do you get an elephant into the fridge?

You can almost certainly use your mobile in France assuming you are setup for international roaming - check with your provide.

To phone home is very expensive - you should find the rates on your network providers home page.

Calling your wife/daughter who are also in France will be more expensive - call from France to UK then UK back to France. It would be cheaper to buy a decent set of walkie talkies to communicate.

great advice thanks Jim. I'll get down to argus in the morning

bruce

going to check O2 but still like the walkie talky type of thing

Personally I prefer to find a bar and wait for the return of the women but that would be dearer than phoning at the rate they spend.

you wouldn't believe what a 12 year old can spend when she gets in a clothes or shoe shop.

she even sugested the other day that if I gave her a card on my account she wouldn't have to keep bothering me for money.

I should Coco

bruce

Thanks every one for the advice

bruce

am I a vegitarian if I eat salad with my steak?

Just a thought but could you buy pay as you go sim cards in france and use those to call each other?

you would need the security code for your phone but should work

This is a fantastic site and I wonder now what ever did we do before we were introduced to it. Spent hours looking at the telly I expect, yuk.

anyway has anyone else noticed that when one asks a question about a problem or anything else there are always so many good people ready to give so many different bits of excelent advice? and all for free. on some of the questions there are so many different answers that after a couple of days you are back to sqare one. not knowing which piece of advice to take as they all look so good and sensible.

Anyway we have decided NOT to take the mobile phones to France. That has solved the problem. the worst that can happen after all is that I could lose the Missus in some giant hypermarket. Nah, with my luck someone would find her and bring her home again.

Thanks you lot

bruce 

brilliant wlee why didn't I thi nk of that.

bruce