Buying Turkish Mobile Phone Advice please

[Roy]

Who better to ask
Considering buying a cheap turkish mobile phone (Turkcell) for the duration of being here (6 months) rather than using phone cards - any comment or advice appreciated. Apparently you can buy one at Turkcell at the end of the main road just up from Tansas for about 220 lira with sim card & 40 lira credit, - of course unless anyone knows better.
Thanks in advance.

[don]

no need just register your uk mobile . You have to do it in marmaris turksel shop last dollmus stop take your passport with you.

[don]

sorry forgot to add you need sim free phone if you have not got one phones for you do sim free phone for less than 10 pounds pay as u go much cheaper than in turkey.you can register one phone every two years .

[Katiehutchinson_1991]

complicated process but turkish phones arent the cheapest to buy
if you have an old english mobile then as Don said you can take it over and have it registered as a turkish phone in the shops in marmaris
this must be registered to a british passport with someone that is over 18 and you can only register one phone every 2 years
once the phone is registered as turkish it cant be changed back
also it takes about 10 days to activate it so you wont be able to use it straight away
also there will be cheaper phones than 220tl go into marmaris they will have a much better selection
hope this helps
i have done the process myself of registering the phone so if you need to know anything else please dont hesitate to ask
xxx

[JT]

Katie you may have made an erroer in reporting that once you register it for a Turkish sim it can't be changed back

I think people will take from that, they can't use it with any other countries sim card i:e UK but of course you can

[Roy]

Thanks Katie & others, think I have got a good deal for much much less but will find out more tomorrow, turkish friend thinks he will get the phone cheaper for me. Was also told it costs a lot of money to register your old phone, is this correct Katie?

[JT]

Go to whatever phone service provider you want to use in Marmaris with your passport, I personally use Avea as I pay 40 lira per month for unlimited texts (which I dont use) unlimited internet and 2000 minutes to any network in Turkey and Turkish landlines

Give them your passport and fill in the form and most are switched on now within the hour.

You can buy a cheap Turkish Nokia for something like 60 lira so enabling you to keep you UK sim in the other phone at all times unless switching sims all the time wont bother you

[Roy]

Thanks JT, the cheap Nokia is the one I plan to buy (pay as you go), wasn't keen to use my own mobile which is far superior - just incase it got complicated or problematic - cheers.

[Katiehutchinson_1991]

sorry John yeah i might be wrong in that statement
i meant that if you register over your contract phone in the uk then it cant be registered back to the contract phone
i hope that makes more sense i didnt really make it clear
thanks for pointing it out to me
nope Roy they dont charge that much to register it
if i remember correctly it was 15tl or something like that
not much
xxx

[Katiehutchinson_1991]

if your on turkish vodafone you can pay 10tl a month and it gives you
2000 texts to any other turkish phone on turkcell and avea networks
and 10,000 texts to any other turkish vodafone user
this is what i do
xxx

[x-raki-girl-x]

What are the options if ur going for 2weeks? i wanted something withe free internet so i can use whatsapp.