25.1.13

*New* Phones

Our SIM cards finally arrived from 3.dk today. Happy times.

They wouldn't sell us a plan in the store because we had neither a Danish passport nor a Danish drivers license. Stupid worthless American passport. And the Danes wonder why others find them xenophobic!

Weirdly, we were allowed to purchase phones via the interwebs. Success.


It will be difficult to get comfortable with the "rhythm" of Danish phone numbers. I'm obviously used to the one.two.three...four.five...six.seven. I mean there are other ways to provide American phone numbers, but the previous is just how my brain works.

Here it's 4 sets of 2, for a total of - you guessed it - 8 digits. They are always written in pairs, but I'm not sure how people acutally say / hear them.

It is pretty awesome that we can still use our dinosaur iPhones. Plans are ridiculously cheap here if you already have a phone - we'll cut our bill by $100 / mo compared to our ATT plan. If you "buy" a phone through the mobile phone company, the cost is built into your monthly payment - usually, IIRC, for six months. 

That could easily take a a 130 dkk plan to 300 dkk. Thanks ancient 3GS!

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