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<title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Mobile Phones</title>
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
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<h1>Mobile Phone Use Guide</h1>
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<pre><b>
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Base camp: 00 43 664 763 0255<br>
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Top camp: 00 43 664 582 5229
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</b>
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</pre>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>For some years (including 2018) we have been using the "B-Free" mobile scheme. (In 2011 we tried using another provider which picked up the T-Mobile network, however the reception was not as good as B-Free. B-Free 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 receipt with a printed code or a card with a scratch-off secret number.</p>
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<h3>Annual renewal</h3>
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<p>This has to be done in less than 13 months otherwise it costs a more as you
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essentially have to start from scratch (~EUR10 for a new SIM with EUR5 of
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credit). The phone cannot be used in the last month, but renewal is cheaper
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than starting from scratch.</p>
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<h3>Checking credit</h3>
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<p>The simplest way (which doesn't require understanding a number read out to
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you in German) is to dial <b>*101#</b>. This doesn't actually make a
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call but results in you getting an SMS-like message containing the balance
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details. There's no charge for this.</p>
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<h3>Adding credit</h3>
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<p>If you need to buy more credits for a phone the simplest way is to just ask
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for a "B.Free" top-up at the supermarket checkout (Unimarkt definitely did them
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in 2016). They'll give you a printed receipt with the code to key in. See
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below for how to use it.</p>
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<p>(Other options we've used were:
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<ul>
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<li>go to the Hartlauer shop (on right of road to railway station, not far
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beyond the post office). Wave the phone and ask for a 'B-free Bon'.</li>
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<li>go to post office and ask for B.Free 10 euros for each phone.</li>
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<p>You should be given a aufladecode, which may require scratching off a panel at lower right back of card.)</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Dial <b>0800 664290</b> (if you're lucky someone might have put this in the phone address book possible under the name "Check balance")</li>
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<li>Listen to an audio menu and Press 2 (to select something)</li>
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<li>Then type in number on the scratch panel, followed by #</li>
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<li>Listen to the number read back to you, and press 2 to confirm code is correct.</li>
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<li>Press No twice to end the call.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Tips and Tricks</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>If you're in an area where reception is poor and you need to go to a
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particular spot to check messages, try dialling the balance request
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number (<b>*101#</b>) once there - this usually seems to trigger delivery of any
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pending SMS messages.</li>
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