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 either:

• go to the Hartlauer shop oppositeUnimarkt/Konsum. Wave the phone and ask for a 'B-free Bon'.
• go to postoffice and ask for B.Free 10 euros for each phone.

You should be given a aufladecode, (this may requiw scratching off a panel at lower right back of card)

• Dial 0800 664290 (if you're lucky someone might have put this in the phone address book possible under the name "Check balance")
• Listen to an audio menu and Press 2 (to select something)
• Then type in number on the scratch panel, followed by #
• Listen to the number read back to you, and press 2 to confirm code is correct.
• Press No twice to end the call.

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