cheap mobile phone

Hi Saznaz

We bought our mobile phone in Eroski in Cartagena in the "Phone House" franchise for €45 which included €20 credit.

We used it at Christmas & made 4 UK calls & 3 Republic of Ireland calls, with all calls lasting at least 10 minutes & the whole lot cost us €8.

It is on the Happy Movil network & we were able to add credit via the cash machines of La Caixa Bank & it was really easy to do.

Noreen

We bought Movistar sim cards and put 20€ credit on each phone, last June/July.

I thought, as in the UK, the credit would last for "ever", (unless we used it up obviously!)

But, I got a text, in Spanish, in December saying "you can no longer make calls or texts from this phone as your credit has expired"

It seems that with Movistar, don't know about other providers, your credit expires after a period.

Gutted!

Our 40€ credit just got swallowed up in Movistars vast profits.

Does anyone know of a provider where there is no expiry time for credit?

Thanks,

We bought a cheap mobile from Movistar but luckily the lady in the shop explained that the credit has a 6 month time limit.  We topped up the credit as we'd used it a lot and it also reminded us on the phone when that top up would expire.  I agree that it's a bit naughty and like the car hire 'extras' extracting as much as possible from the public.

Oh well, everyone learns by experience.

Never mind, I will top them up next visit and keep it topped up this time.

thanks for the info............