Cultured Views

He certainly feels that to be the case. Actually he has owned two mobile phones to date – both were bought in France and both became entirely useless after a while due to the ridiculous conditions attached to pay-as-u-go phones in that country. Basically you buy your phone, you get your number and then you use it as often as you can because if you don’t keep it in credit on a regular basis you lose the phone number – and because my son liked to spend his pocket money on a lot of other things he rarely charged his phone with any credit. Twice this happened – then we would look around for Cheapest Mobile Deals because you then have to buy a new sim card so you get a new number.

Another stupid aspect of owning a pay-as-u-go in France was the time limit on the credit itself – if you don’t use it you lose it, and this can be anywhere from one week to three months. I know a man who bought fifty euros worth of credit for his phone so he would be able to use it when he went on holiday to Spain; he went on holiday three weeks later, went to use the phone only to discover the credit – all fifty euros of it – had expired simply because he did not use it immediately. Yep, this happened to us as well. The French have all these weird rules and conditions attached to aspects of life that you don’t find anywhere else in the world and mobile phones are no exception. So my son is now phone-less for the time being and desperately wants one for Xmas – I told him he is unique among his friends for not having one and to enjoy being different, he told me to cut the psychology and come up with the phone. Here we go again…

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