tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31566440551376394822024-03-05T07:06:41.902+02:00pay as you go and prepaid phones in EuropeI am writing this blog to tell you all about the different top up methods of prepaid (pay-as-you-go) plans (online and offline) in case you find yourself abroad and need to get or charge your credit on your sim card.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119983516449756875noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156644055137639482.post-75270697482390767202012-06-25T15:47:00.000+03:002012-09-19T15:19:19.151+03:00How you can top up mobile credit online with Fonmoney in Romania<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKKpL3_Mu7JZmBFZv0px-6BpHVeztWxL2pm0sArwPrEvRUf_01Z23Tfb9ROiQi0PTKRycdijo82mELl1yl3XZTVY3Kn9UMYPI6mTcNX1z9f1RA09Z0TUyiGgZ1sVfhhJA7SLVVaaZ6jw/s1600/pay_as_you_go.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKKpL3_Mu7JZmBFZv0px-6BpHVeztWxL2pm0sArwPrEvRUf_01Z23Tfb9ROiQi0PTKRycdijo82mELl1yl3XZTVY3Kn9UMYPI6mTcNX1z9f1RA09Z0TUyiGgZ1sVfhhJA7SLVVaaZ6jw/s1600/pay_as_you_go.jpg" /></a>In my earlier <a href="http://pay-as-you-go-around-the-world.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/pay-as-you-go-and-prepaid-in-romania.html">post</a>, I discussed the
different mobile network providers in Romania and the prepaid (pay-as-you-go)
plans they offer. As I did my research I found it quite intriguing, that
nowadays it is possible to top up airtime and credit on your prepaid phone and
pay-as-you-go plans in Romania online. In this article <b>I want to explore the
pros and cons of these online top up sites that operate in Romania.</b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">First of all, I want to explore the reason
why anybody would top up credit online in Romania. First of all,
some people will do it on the go, meaning they will just top up their prepaid credit with a smartphone, when they notice they are running low on credit or airtime. Second, some people might live in an area, in Romania, where the possibility
to top up credit is to far away for it to be convenient or people find it simply more
convenient to top up their credit on their prepaid card online at home. Then
there are many people who live outside of Romania. They are probably the ones
they truly want to use their service to top up credit in Romania online. They
will have relatives, friends or spouses who live in Romania. They have the
possibility to help out their friends and relatives in Romania with a </span>online top up
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<span lang="EN-US">But all that aside, <b>what really counts is
fees and availability,</b> when you top up credit online in Romania. Of course there is always a transaction fee when you top
up prepaid credit online. The industries standard is between 25% and 50% per online credit top up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first one I want to explore is <b>top up credit online with Fonmoney</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fonmoney is the newest player on the
market! First thing I noticed, is that they have a really cool and fun designed
website and it has a fresh look to it. They make it really easy for the user to
top up airtime and credit online. They are also the only ones who allow you to top up credit on your pay-as-you-go plan on all for networks: Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania and Cosmote Romania. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fonmoney is also charging per credit top up
way below its competition! Where others charge up to 50% per online top up, Fonmoney only charges up to 10% per online top up! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On Fonmoney.com you also very often get
bonus credit and extra credit when you top up your Romanian prepaid or
pay-as-you-go credit. Also Fonmoney is operated in many different languages,
including Romanian, which makes it easy to top up credit online for Romanians. They
also accept most common cards and payment methods and others such as paysafe for online credit top ups. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second one in line is <b>top up credit online with ezetop</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They have been online for quite a while.
Their site is easy enough to understand and to follow the steps but it’s nothing
fancy. Also the site is only featured in 4 languages, not including Romanian,
which could make it difficult for some Romanians to top up credit online in Romania.
They are also the ones that charge </span>roughly between 25% and 40% per online top up. Rule
of thumb here, the more credit you top up the lower the percentage of fees you got to
pay per top up of credit. On ezetop you
can only top up your credit or credit for Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania.
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<span lang="EN-US">Last but not
least: <b>Top up credit online with TransferTo</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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online for quite a while, too. Their site is probably the most basic out of the
three. You can only top up credit in English. It also shows a lot of
bugs, when I tried it out and when you type in the wrong phone number there is
simply no button to reload the site or go one step back. Just like ezetop you
can only top up credit on Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania. They
charge you a fee between 25% and 50% per top up of credit in Romania, also
depending on the amount you top up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>In conclusion</b>, if
you want to top up airtime or credit online to a Romanian prepaid or pay-as-you-go phone, I would
have to go with <a href="http://www.fonmoney.com/en/top-up-in-romania" target="_blank">fonmoney.com for Romania</a>, since its easy to top up credit online, the site is in
Romanian and they charge the lowest fee per online top up of credit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119983516449756875noreply@blogger.com1Bucharest, Romania44.437711 26.097366944.347011 25.9394384 44.528411 26.2552954tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156644055137639482.post-4689434060993603662012-06-12T12:24:00.000+03:002013-04-26T14:42:02.030+03:00Pay-As-You-Go and Prepaid Top Up in Turkey<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Turkey is a big country and when you travel there, it is definitely worth getting yourself a pay as you go plan ASAP, otherwise the roaming will cost you a fortune. Even though Turkey is a huge country it only has three big mobile phone providers, but at least they </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">all offer a pay as you go plan (prepaid)</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. Since the carriers are big companies, they make it real easy for you to top up pay as you go, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">online</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> and</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> offline</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. And the best part about is that in Turkey, every time you top up your phone, you get a lot of credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> for your money. In Turkey the providers seem to offer the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> plan over the credit plan. A rule of thumb is </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">the more you top up, the more credit</b><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> you will get</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, hence the unit of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> you top up will become cheaper and cheaper, the more you pay. So it's pretty much the same, as a </span><a href="http://pay-as-you-go-around-the-world.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/pay-as-you-go-and-prepaid-in-romania.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">top up of credit </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">online in Romania</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This is the list of mobile carriers and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> granted when you <b>top up your prepaid in Turkey</b>: </span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Turkcell Turkey (GSM) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Market leader in Turkey with 34,3 million customers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For every TL 30 top up Turkcell grants you 100 </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">kontör</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">(usage units) of credit, which converts to TL 0.30 of top up per credit unit.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With Vodafone Turkey you get the most </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> per top up, since you get 250 </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">kontör</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">of credit for a TL 24 top up.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">They have 12.4 million subscribers</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">When you top up TL 50 you will get 100 </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">kontör</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">of credit, which converts to TL.0.30 of top up per credit unit.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Traditionally, in Turkey, you will have to top up your pay as you go </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> offline. Turkcell on the other hand has expanded its operations to German, and you can top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">online and offline</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> in Germany. Officially, you can only top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> for Avea and Vodafone offline. But here again there is the chance to use one of the mobile service providers such as fonmoney.com to top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> online. Alternatively you can top up with transferto but they don’t seem to have a partnership with Avea and are the more expensive choice (25%-50% per </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> top up), where as fonemoney.com only charges between 7.5% and 10% for every prepaid top up of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you want to purchase your pay as you go </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> plan you just have to choose one of the three Turkish providers. They have shops all around Turkey, especially in the bigger cities like Istanbul and Ankara, where you also top up, but be aware that each of them has a different coverage density. Especially to top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in the countryside can be a challenge, so to top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> online might be interesting. But all in all you will have no problems buying your pay as you go plan anywhere in Turkey. In Turkey you always need to register your sim, even when you just get a pay as you go (prepaid) plan, hence you will need some identification.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first time you shop for your <a href="http://www.fonmoney.com/blog/turkeys-mobile-and-top-up-landscape/" target="_blank">pay as you go plan in Turkey</a>, you will get some initial </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> that you can use up. From there on you will have to top up your pay as you go (prepaid) plan in one of the shops or alternatively just top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> online with one of the mobile service providers. Keep your eyes open for special offers for more </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, which come and go like the seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Note that, in Turkey, your sim pay as you go plan will expire once you didn't top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> for some time (usually between 6 months and 1 year) and your </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> will have to be used up every month. Hence your </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> on a pay as you go plan will require a monthly top up. Alternatively you can top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">credit</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> and discard it when you don't need it anymore.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">So make sure you know what you need, how much you are going to make use of your </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> while in Turkey, so you know how much</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> you need to top up. You will get more </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> the more you top up, but only top up </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">credit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> according to your needs. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119983516449756875noreply@blogger.com1Ankara, Türkei39.92077 32.8541139.725925499999995 32.538253 40.1156145 33.169967tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156644055137639482.post-4845128128538954982012-06-08T14:31:00.000+03:002012-06-12T15:54:32.263+03:00Smartphone + Prepaid Feasible In Romania?<br />
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So how about using a Smartphone with a
prepaid or pay-as-you-go plan in Romania? Most of mobile network providers
around the world are trying to lure their customers into getting the newest and
most desirable smartphone combined with a not so cheap contract, which binds
the customer to the company for a long period of time!</div>
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you have other options, with todays focus on Romania. If you don’t set yourself
the standard of always having the newest phone but instead just wanting something
that does the job and doesn’t cost you a fortune, there are some quite cool
offers out there!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will start off with Vodafone Romania:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They are the only ones offering a proper
<a href="https://www.vodafone.ro/shop/vodafone-smart-pachet-prepaid.pr"><span style="color: black;">package</span></a>,
including a prepaid card, with some credit/airtime, and a <a href="http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/what/devices/vodafone_smart.html"><span style="color: black;">Vodafone Smart</span></a>,
which is one of Vodafone’s in-house mobile phones. The Android touchscreen
phone is good enough to brows the Internet, watch and make videos, find your
way round (GPS) and play music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The best part really is the prepaid card
(pay-as-you-go plan) that comes along! It comes charged with 3000 network
credit/sms, 75 min of credit to other networks or international minutes. You
also get 250 MB to surf the net, which is sufficient for a decent amount of
traffic. All this you get for just 7 euros. Every time you run out of minutes a
bandwidth just top up your prepaid plan and you're good to go again. Also as I
mentioned in my first <a href="http://pay-as-you-go-around-the-world.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/pay-as-you-go-and-prepaid-in-romania.html"><span style="color: black;">article</span></a>, you can top up your credit on Vodafone Romania’s website. Vodafone sells the
package for just 99</span><span lang="DE">€ plus you
get a 10€ recharge voucher. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in line is Orange Romania:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Orange doesn’t offer a complete package so
you have to piece the parts together. We will start off with the phone. The
cheapest one, that is out there ATM, would be the Motorola <a href="http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/MOTOROLA-DEFY-MINI-XW-EN"><span style="color: black;">Defy Mini</span></a>.
It is an Android phone, equipped with a camera, GPS service and touchscreen. I
think it’s a cool mobile phone since it is supposed to withstand a lot and is
waterproof, which is useful for a messy guy like myself. Orange sells the phone
161.20</span><span lang="DE">€</span><span lang="EN-US">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then you will have to get a prepaid plan
with Orange, starting at 5</span><span lang="DE">€</span><span lang="EN-US"> euros and it will get you 3000 min of credit and 3000 sms on their
network plus 75 min of credit and 75 sms to other networks and international.
This is a slightly better deal then Vodafone has to offer! BUT you still have
to add on an Internet option, where the plan gets costly. It starts at 2</span><span lang="DE">€</span><span lang="EN-US"> for 10 MB of inclusive
traffic, which is not a lot. You would have to get at least 100 MB, which cost
4</span><span lang="DE">€</span><span lang="EN-US"> or
better 500 MB for 6</span><span lang="DE">€. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cosmote Romania offers
you a cool list of prepaid plans with different bonus options. The most
valuable one for this discussion is the Cartela Vibe option. Once you charge it
up with at least 5<span lang="DE">€</span> you will activate the Xpand extra-option, which
gives you 75 national and international min of credit, 75 sms national, 3000
min of credit and sms in the Cosmote Romania network and on top of that 75 MB
mobile data traffic! That is pretty cheap. Now you just have to add a mobile
phone, where I would recommend the Motorola Defy. Cosmote doesn’t seem to state
any prices on their website so you would have to run down to the shops to check
for the best deal. But as mentioned above, the Motorola Defy is a solid mobile
phone that does the trick. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Last but not least is Digi.Mobile Romania:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Digi.Mobile Romania is
one of the few network providers who don’t seem to offer any mobile phones.
Nonetheless they do have some prepaid or pay-as-you-go plans, which allow you
to surf the net. You just have to buy the phone elsewhere (and get it unblocked
elsewhere, for that matter)! Digi.Mobile allows you to charge up your phone for
any amount you would like, since they don’t offer any packages of credit, but
their rates a reasonable, since they only charge you 1.24 cents per minute into
their own lines and fixed lines. Rates are higher to other networks. BUT they
offer you for just 4.96<span lang="DE">€</span><span lang="DE"> </span>unlimited traffic data rate of 7.2 MB, which is quite an offer. I wouldn’t
recommend DigiMobile as a pay-as-you-go plan since they have the least amount
of subscribers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All in all I would
have to go with the Vodafone plan, since they are the only ones truly targeting
the prepaid customers with a great package! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119983516449756875noreply@blogger.com0Bucharest, Romania44.437711 26.097366944.347011 25.9394384 44.528411 26.2552954tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156644055137639482.post-82467566783727698232012-06-01T12:03:00.002+03:002012-09-19T15:20:15.208+03:00Pay-As-You-Go and Prepaid Top Up in Romania<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZyrS4BjrjHfGR7XZeTpwFF3hLKwCK4TS1kWqgZSbWyS__ONvUdDM0tDVsK1L66ogkKsSgwpXIgKl3QSc53orsaPklgqR0eGKuu1rHgQOZEoWOehwYpawE0LcTem31NvNkVUbJbd6h2OA/s1600/Romania.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Here you can find out where and how to top up your romanian sim" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZyrS4BjrjHfGR7XZeTpwFF3hLKwCK4TS1kWqgZSbWyS__ONvUdDM0tDVsK1L66ogkKsSgwpXIgKl3QSc53orsaPklgqR0eGKuu1rHgQOZEoWOehwYpawE0LcTem31NvNkVUbJbd6h2OA/s1600/Romania.png" title="Prepaid Top Ups in Romania" /></a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">If
you have ever been travelling in Eastern Europe, you might have noticed that
the roaming fees are killing your cashflow or provide an ugly surprise when you
return, just because you didn’t get yourself a pay as you go sim card. Luckily
enough, Romania offers you a <b>wide range of pay as you go plans</b> by different
operators with multiple ways to charge your credit off and online, making it
really easy to top up at your convenience. In most cases, every time you <b>top up in Romania</b>, you even get a <b>bonus paid in airtime</b> (free calling
minutes) or even extra charge of mobile credit when you recharge your pay as
you go plan.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This
is the list of mobile carriers and bonuses granted when you top up 10€ on your
phone in Romania:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Orange
Romania (GSM)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Market
Leader in Romania, with more than 10 Million subscribers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Bonus:
every time you top up, you get 0,60€ mobile credit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Vodafone
Romania (GSM)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">7.6
Million subscribers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Bonus:
every time you top up, you get 0,40€ mobile credit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Cosmote
Romania (CDMA 2000)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">6.5
Million subscribers (Cosmote offers a CDMA 2000 network, so you might be lucky,
if you own an American CDMA phone), Cosmote is mainly focused on prepaid (pay
as you go) plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Bonus:
every time you top up your pay as you go plan, you get 50 minutes of airtime /
sms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Digi.Mobile
Romania (GSM)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">1.3
Million Subscribers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I’m
not quite sure if they offer you any bonus when you top up your pay as you go
plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You
can top up Vodafone on their website, but for the other operators you have to
find independent service providers like Fonmoney.com to top up your sim. There
are some international top up providers like transferto and ezetop, but they
usually charge you between 25% and 50% fee. Fonmoney charges only between 7.5%
and 10% for every top up, so they are the ones with the lowest fee on the
market. To top up your airtime in the countryside can be tedious, so charging your prepaid phone will be easiest online. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Please
keep in mind: after you top up your credit on your phone, the operator sends
you a message showing you your account balance.<span style="color: red;"> Please notice that the carrier
always deducts the VAT from your account balance</span>. <b>If you charge 10€ after
fees the carrier shows 8,06€ of pay as you go credit. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It's
quiet easy to get sim cards in Bukarest, just go to one of the many operator
stores to buy a sim card. Most of the carriers have an exhausting retail
network in Romania. You can practically buy the sim at any corner and recharge
your phone online. Most of the time, when you buy a pay as you go plan, you
wont have to top up the card immediately, as it will already come charged with
some credit. Please keep in mind that in
Romania, the carriers deactivate your sim after a certain time if you don't top
up on a regular bases. So you have to recharge your phone every month, if you
want to keep on making calls. Otherwise your sim switches to a passive mode,
this means that you can only receive calls, but you can't make any yourself.
After one year your sim card expires. Some carrier in Romania offer you the
possibility to extend the life time, without having to top up, against a small
fee (about 1,00€), in case you want to keep the number and credit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">When
you top up online or offline, try to top up higher amounts (like 10€, average
top up in Romania is less than 5€) to benefit from the incentives (free air
time, mobile credit, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07119983516449756875noreply@blogger.com5Bukarest45.943161 24.9667643.117624500000005 19.913049 48.7686975 30.020471