Yeah, ho YouTube. I am super gianky in today's video. I'm gonna talk to you about phone plans here in Spain The prepaid option is more for those people that are coming to visit Spain or any country in Europe and the contract option Is for the people that are gonna be spending an extended amount of time in this country I have experienced with both so that being said, let's get into the video Number one the prepaid option first thing I'm gonna say about this is Beware of the people trying to sell you prepaid phone lines in the airport These sales techniques are very aggressive. You ever gonna tack with cream? Man, you'll be walking out of nowhere. You want to say I'm cream? I'm cream is good is from Israel. It's good cream Not gonna lie when I got off the plane my mom was like I'm just gonna go buy a phone line Look, there's a phone carrier right there. So we go over to the phone carrier and they're all nice You they learn you in with a false sense of security. They speak English everything is great and Then they hit you with like this giant price like 200 euros for a 30-day plan I don't even remember how many gigabytes of data it gives you or even how many minutes it gives you But when I saw the price I was like mom that's 200 euros. That's like $250 Sorry, but no now it really all depends on how long you're gonna be in that country and I can't speak for all airports because I haven't been to all the airports But what happens to me was that when I went over to the train station outside of the airport There was a booth and this booth was advertising SIM cards So I went over to the booth and I was talking to the person that worked there and it turns out they sold SIM cards and phone plans as well the only difference was Their price was 20 euros for the exact same plan that I was gonna buy in the airport for 200 euros You don't really need to be a mathematician or anything to understand what 20 times ten is right? The prepaid phone line that I bought was called Vodafone and I've been using Vodafone for about a month now My prepaid line is gonna expire next week and I forgot to say this at the beginning of the video Please check with your current phone carrier to see if they offer data roaming if your current phone carrier Offers data roaming in the countries you want to go to you won't need to buy a prepaid phone line Which brings me to number two the contract? There are plenty of phone companies that offer services to foreigners that want to spend time in Europe over here But what I recommend is this one Oh two, I don't know if that has something to do with like air and oxygen and breathing The reason that I recommend this company is more than just the price phone companies in Spain tend to range from about 10 euros a month to 20 euros a month and It's human pretext to always search for the cheapest option up front But rather than searching for the cheapest option in the short run I recommend assessing your goals and choosing a long-term plan because I actually went to another phone company I forget what it was called, but it was like 15 euros a month for a similar plan to what I'm buying right now However, it did not offer data roaming the reason why you always want to make sure that your phone carrier has data Romain is because if it doesn't every time you go to a new country You're going to have to buy a new prepaid phone plan and for someone like me They want to go to a bunch of countries in Europe and doesn't want to keep having to buy new SIM cards Oh two was the right choice because it does have data roaming in countries outside of Spain Most phone lines that you buy in Spain only work in Spain And I'm not talking about minutes. I'm talking about data I recommend doing some research into phone companies for yourself because yeah 20 euros I guess it's more on the expensive side But when you assess everything that this 20 euros is getting you Which if I open this pamphlet will tell me I get 20 gigabytes of data a month Which is a crazy amount? I get to use it in all European countries with my data roaming ability And honestly speaking that extra five euros that I'm paying per month is really just for a piece of mind And piece of mind is a very important thing when living abroad To my knowledge they're located in medium arts I don't know if medium art is all over Europe, but it's definitely in Spain Are these like giant convenience stores that resemble bus by over in America? The first time we're on I wasn't sure because I was still hunting for that low price model I was like an extra five euros a month nah a slide Let me see if I can get 15 or 10 euros The second time I was pretty sold on 02 But when I got there I didn't have my passport and I didn't have my bank account number Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing really important information here If you want to open up a steady line in Spain or in Europe you're going to need to have a bank account number Which means you're going to need to open a bank account in the country you're living in Now I don't know if this is for all phone lines, but it is for O2 Not only that I super recommend bringing everything in person The third time that I went to medium-market I had all my documents I was already I was like yeah that's going to do this I got there and I didn't bring the physical copies of my passport Now why do you need to do this? Because they need to make photo copies of your passport and your NIE number Your NIE number is a number that the Spanish government is going to give you when you get over here on your visa It has a letter and seven numbers in between followed by another letter Really really really important I recommend taking pictures of both your passport and your NIE number on your phones Make sure that the whole thing is there not just like a cutoff because I have that today And now we have to take another picture and send it to an email they gave me So you don't have to always take your passport with you wherever you're going But in this instance, please do you're going to have to be doing this in Spanish or the language of whatever country you're in So make sure you have google translate in your pocket and make sure you have time because the process might take somewhere from 30 minutes to an hour That's pretty much it for the phone plans here in Spain just to recap everything before you go to any country outside of your home country Be sure to check that your current phone provider has data roaming Unless you're in suspending 200 euros for something you can spend 20 euros for beware of the tourist drops And three O2 is the company to go to That's it for the video today youtube if you like this video this video helps you out Don't forget to smash that like button Like's really help me out Subscribe to the channel if you're new really trying to get to 100,000 before on 25 24 right now Leave a comment because I love responding to your comments with ganky energy and positivity But most importantly share this video with your friends We need to get the good word of positive thinking out there to his man. 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