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If you aren't staying long enough to do that, your best bet
is to stick with cell phone service. If you dont have a GSM
phone, you will need one. Then buy a French SIM card that
is pay-as-you-go. They are available from all the telephone
shops and most Tabacs. You can shop around for prices.
The best part is, you get a number (on the SIM card) and
can top it up anonymously. No one knows your number
unless you give it to them. If you stop using the card for
more than a year, it will expire, but you wont have recurring
charged from the phone company if you pay as you go and
don't give them your bank information.
For internet access to your laptop computer or handheld
device, you can either depend on the free services or buy a
pay-as-you-go 3G clé . Id recommend the latter.
Free wii access is available at many of public parks (if it
isnt dead of winter or pouring rain) and libraries (which are
a little hard to i nd) as well as some cafes and restaurants.
Most of them require you go on the internet and agree to
their rules. So after you locate the wii service and select it
with your device, then go to your internet provider site and
the service you have selected will pop up automatically. You
agree to their rules and you then have internet access, for
whatever the specii c time they allow, shared with other users.
You will also i nd “free” wii services that look available.
But they will take you to a place you must sign in. Those
services are another way you can access the internet, with
a subscription, but they are very public, more so than the
parks and restaurants, and not a good place from which to
access your bank account, etc., online.
If you want private internet service wherever you are with
your laptop, buy a 3G clé that looks just like a memory stick
and pops into your computer in the USB port. This is basically
cell phone service for data only, so be sure the service from
the company you choose works well in your home location.
The 3G speed is usually fast enough for things like suri ng
the web and Skype.
NOTE: The 3g clé cannot work with devices lacking a
USB port, like your iPhone or Blackberry from home. They
have their own ways of managing your international life
 
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