Many people bring their mobile phones when they come on holiday to Luxor. Calls to the UK on a UK-based network attract high roaming charges, and the recipient of the call has to pay similar charges to the caller. A simple solution to this is to buy a Holiday Sim Card pack, from the Vodafone shop at the bottom of Television Street. The cost is 25LE, and it will give you an Egyptian phone number, which means that you pay a lower international call charge, and the recipient pays nothing. The card has a life of 6 weeks, and can be topped up with pay-as-you-go cards that are readily available throughout the city. If your phone needs 'unlocking' there are several phone shops where this can be done at a cost of between 30-50LE.
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