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Telephone

IMPORTANT NUMBERS
France country code

33

International access code

00

Europe-wide emergency

112

Ambulance (SAMU) 15

Police

17

MOBILE PHONES
• » French mobile phone numbers begin with 06 or 07.
• » France uses GSM 900/1800, which is compatible with the rest of Europe and
Australia but not with the North American GSM 1900 or the totally different system
in Japan (though some North Americans have tri-band phones that work here).
• » Check with your service provider about roaming charges - dialling a mobile
phone from a fixed-line phone or another mobile can be incredibly expensive.
• » It may be cheaper to buy your own French SIM card - and locals you meet are
much more likely to ring you if your number is French.
• » Recharge cards are sold at most tabacs and newsagents.
• » SIMs are available at the ubiquitous outlets run by France's three mobile phone
companies, Bouygues ( www.bouyguestelecom.fr ) , France Telecom's Orange
( www.orange.com ) and SFR ( www.sfr.com , in French) .