# CUCC Expedition Handbook: Mobile Phones

## CUCC Expedition Handbook

# Mobile Phone Use Guide

After many years of using complicated radio systems of varying degrees of complication and reliability, we have finally settled on a foolproof method for communicating callouts from top camp to base camp: mobile phones. Cheap Austrian pay-as-you-go mobiles have sufficiently good reception on the plateau for sending SMS messages, and even occasionally for conversation.

We are using the "B-Free" mobile scheme. This has an annual renewal of the SIM which gets you the phone number and connection (plus some credit). More credit comes in the form of a card with a scratch-off secret number.

### Annual renewal

This has to be done in less than 13 months otherwise it costs a great deal extra (equivalent to starting from scratch). The phone cannot be used in the last month, but renewal is much cheaper than starting from scratch.

### Adding credit

If you need to buy more credits for a phone go to the Hartlauer shop opposite Unimarkt/Konsum. Wave the phone and ask for a 'B-free Bon'.

- Scratch off the panel at lower right back of card
- Dial 0800 664290 (if you're lucky someone might have put this in the phone address book)
- Listen to an audio menu and Press 2 (to select something)
- Then type in number on the scratch panel, followed by #
- Listen to an audio menu and press 2
- Press No twice to end the call.

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