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INTERNATIONAL CALLING
While being in Spain, either for holidays or for longer periods, you may wish
to call your family and friends at home as well as your new friends in Spain .
Furthermore it will be very important to be available by phone, when buying
Spanish property, looking for work in Spain or when even starting your own
business in Spain.
 One possibility is to have a Spanish mobile phone.
You must not necessarily buy a mobile phone in Spain as you can normally use
your old one, provided that it is a GSM one what it will probably be if you are
a European citizen or if you bought your mobile phone in any European country.
GSM is the Global System for Mobile Communications, originally a European
standard for digital mobile telephony, it is today one of the leading digital
cellular systems in use in over 100 countries. In case that you are no
EU-citizen you should check whether you can use your mobile phone in Spain and
other European countries before you start your trip or even your new live in
Spain. In the case that your mobile does not work in Europe you should consider
buying or renting a new one. When you are staying in Spain for a shorter period
it is advisable to rent a mobile phone if you feel you need one. In case that
your stay in Spain will last longer than 6 weeks at any rate it will be cheaper
to buy a Spanish mobile phone.
When you are buying your Spanish mobile phone, you should first decide whether
you prefer to have a mobile phone contract or a prepaid-card. Then you should
choose a provider, the three biggest in Spain are Telefónica Movistar, Vodafone
and Amena. If you are contracting a mobile phone service the price you will
have to pay to take and keep the phone is cheaper than buying a mobile phone
with a prepaid-card and also the call rates you have to pay per minute are
quite a bit cheaper. The disadvantages of a contract are that you have to
provide some security to the provider, as for example a bank account and your
NIE number ( Número de Identidad de Extranjero ). You have also to pay
a monthly service charge for having a contract but this charge is normally not
too expensive.
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