With tens of thousands of international delegates due to arrive into Barcelona today and tomorrow for Mobile World Congress, the Orange and Movistar shops I’ve walked into are doing brisk data sim business. I just bumped into three MWC chaps from Chicago at the Orange shop just off one of the main squares. They were all clutching Orange bags and smiling.
Me? Well. I thought I’d keep it Big Red. You know, primary operator loyalty. So I typed ‘Vodafone’ into Google Maps and walked by both competing operators. To find the Vodafone store was closed. Arse. So I’m off to Orange. I can’t be bothered to do another five blocks to the other Vodafone shop in case it is closed too.
You do have to wonder why there wasn’t a pop-up sim shop at the airport setup by an enterprising bright spark. I’d have paid well over the odds there-and-then.
(Apologies to the native Spanish speakers for butchering the post title.)
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