I signed a contract with a smartphone operator (Amigo) in Portugal.

I signed up with a telecommunications operator like Rakuten Mobile or POVO in Japan.

I signed up with Amigo amongst others such as WOO and Amigo.

The reason was simple: they were polite and helpful at the counter. That’s all.
Woo was more attractive because the payment method was prepaid card-only and I could only use the amount I paid, so I went to the counter there, but they only spoke Portuguese and I couldn’t understand anything…
On the other hand, when I went to Amigo, they said a little (they speak a little English) and tried to manage with our poor conversation with each other, which was very good. So I decided to go to Amigo.

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Contract with Amigo.

Amigo is a Vodafone-owned low-cost SIM provider.

Movel offers the following rates. Compared to Japan, the prices are considerably lower.

・100GB / 5000 minutes €8
・unlimited / 5000 minutes €10

necessary documents

To sign up for a SIM in Portugal, you need the following two things.

・NIF (Portuguese tax identification number)
・ID or passport.

In my case, I didn’t have a long-stay visa yet, so they issued me with a passport.

If you tell them it’s your first time, they will process your phone number as well.

process

Once the necessary documents have been submitted, the rest of the process is carried out at the counter.
After a 30-minute wait, they issued me a SIM card.

After that, you can use it by plugging it into your phone.

Points of concern for Amigo.

The payment has to be made later. The point is that you are allowed to use the communication first and pay for it later, but you have to be a multibanco to pay.
Multibanco is the Portuguese Interbank System. This means that if you don’t have a Portuguese bank, you can’t make this payment, so you need to be careful.

I had just emigrated, so I had to sweat and pay at the last minute…

Summary

A pleasant brother responded to me.
I gestured to get my message across and he tried to understand me. Sometimes with humour.


But don’t play with the staff next to you in people’s passports lol.

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