Get a mobile phone quickly.

Get a Mobile Phone quickly so you can start building that local contact list.You should expect to be asked for your number all the time be diligent about how you hand the phone number out or you may find that you begin to receive un-wanted telephone calls possibly at all hours of the day or night.

If you’re here in Egypt on a permanent basis, I recommend you precede to one of the nearest mobile phone retailers. That belongs to one of the three primary service providers, located within Egypt. The three services providers are (Mobinil, Vodafone and Etisalat) you can obtain a sim-card from any of the service providers mentioned. The cost of sim-cards may be from seven to fifteen Le based on the selected provider.

I recommend buying a second charger for work place use, this will only cost approximately fifteen Le.Be sure you put it away when your done charging the phone.They tend to grow legs in the local work place.

You're then ready for a prepackaged mobile device which should come with an available charger and battery. And only requires three steps to make the device operational. All the steps are straight forward and the retail shop will most likely take care of them during the purchase process.

All three services are sort of competitively priced within reason and offer an assortment of packages. Both Mobinil and Vodafone currently have better overall coverage of Egypt then etisalat when calling a person on one of the other networks. This situation may effectively be corrected over the next year or so when it's corrected. I will then consider switching my provider to etisalat based on pricing alone. But for now I recommend either of the other two services.

You will most likely need to pay attention to the process of charging the phone with a prepaid calling card. These pre- paid cards are widely used across Egypt and readily available from a wide assortment of shops or directly from the service providers. Another general rule is that foreign nationals are not normally given a phone line that results in a monthly itemized statement or bill for the account unless it's guaranteed by a local company, in written form on company letter head which you're being employed by during your stay in Egypt.

The last step you need to perform after you return home, is plug in the charger then charge the battery overnight.