telkom sms roaming

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My daughter is in south korea and she need south africa sms's .
I did ask telkom to add sms roaming on the phone, they say it is activated. She install the sim, restart phone, it does not see a network.
Does someone have advice.

Option B is to do a sim swop, add roaming on the local phone, then courier the sim to her.

 

[susefan]

then courier the sim

Last time I tried to courier a sim card DHL said they did not ship sim cards. Pestering Telkom mobile on twitter might work.

 

[BasBas]

My daughter is in south korea and she need south africa sms's .
I did ask telkom to add sms roaming on the phone, they say it is activated. She install the sim, restart phone, it does not see a network.
Does someone have advice.

Option B is to do a sim swop, add roaming on the local phone, then courier the sim to her.

I have never had an issue but I normally file the Roaming request before I leave and have it active before I leave. Their is a form on telkoms website that you have to email to a specific email address to have it activated.

 

[BasBas]

Last time I tried to courier a sim card DHL said they did not ship sim cards. Pestering Telkom mobile on twitter might work.

don't tell them it is a sim card?

 

[susefan]

don't tell them it is a sim card

Will it not be picked by scanners at ports?

 

[susefan]

It could also be that Telkom does not roam in South Korea.

 

[JSRJJ]

International Roaming

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South Korea is not in the list of countries under rates for international calling downloads

 

["D"]

Will it not be picked by scanners at ports?

Not if you wrap it in a vacuum-packed bag filled with biltong.

 

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I have never had an issue but I normally file the Roaming request before I leave and have it active before I leave. Their is a form on telkoms website that you have to email to a specific email address to have it activated.

This form was filled in and confirm active.
Still when inserting and restart phone no network. I am not sure what network it must see. I saw somewhere telkom is covered by 2 networks in south corea

 

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Last time I tried to courier a sim card DHL said they did not ship sim cards. Pestering Telkom mobile on twitter might work.

I did check courier guy site, I am sure a Sim will go.

 

[nicroets]

Perhaps she can put the sim in a dual sim phone together with a working sim and use VoLTE ?

Or just in a phone with Vo WiFi support and connect to wifi ?