Price: $49.95 You'll need a GSM Phone to go with this card!

The prepaid SIM card for Belgium is easily the least expensive solution for making and receiving cellular phone calls while you are in Belgium. ALL incoming calls, regardless of their origin, are always, absolutely FREE! Outgoing rates, as outlined below, are extremely inexpensive as well. And since these cellular phone cards are prepaid, there is no need for a contract.

Having a cellular phones while travelling internationally is indispensable in terms of security and convenience, and with a prepaid Belgium SIM card, it is now also affordable! We also offer other overseas destinations. Click here to view our complete list of prepaid SIM cards!

Features:

• FREE incoming calls - always!
• Low rates within Belgium and overseas
• The Pay & GO SIM card
• A Belgium cellular phone number
• Free talk time worth 25 EURO (30 USD)
• Choice of 3 prepaid Tariff plans
• International roaming
• Free Voicemail / SMS (text messaging) / WAP
• No yearly contract, monthly charges or credit check

note: Country specific SIM cards can only be used with GSM cellular phones. You will need to rent or purchase one of our unlocked GSM phones designed for overseas use.

Call from the US to your Overseas SIM CARD number at SUPER-LOW RATES with International Calling!

SIM cards that are opened are non-refundable.

Package Deals:

Motorola RAZR V3* and the BELGIUM SIM Card Both Together Only $209.95!  You Save $49.95
More Info	Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Bluetooth and USB connectivity 260K colors LCD screen 3.86 x 2.08 x 0.54 inches 3.35 ounces CLICK FOR ALTERNATE SIM PACKAGE

Motorola W375* and the BELGIUM SIM Card Both Together Only $179.95!  You Save $39.95
More Info	Tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz VGA, 640x480 pixels camera FM Radio Tuner 65K colors LCD screen 3.9 x 1.75 x 0.7 inches 3.1 ounces OUT OF STOCK

Omni Phone* and the BELGIUM SIM Card Both Together Only $109.95!  You Save $19.95
More Info	Unlocked Tri-Band (900, 1800, 1900MHz) 1.8 inch 65K TFT LCD Feather-light Weight OUT OF STOCK

*These phones will also work with all of the other SIM cards we sell. See all our SIM Cards

Activating Your Service:

• Insert the Pay & GO SIM card into you GSM phone
• Turn on your phone
• Type in PIN 1*
• Start calling

Attention! You will find these PIN and PUK codes also on the cover in which your Pay&Go card is wrapped when you buy it. So don't throw it away. (In fact, this cover contains a lot more information than just the codes).

Adding Talk Time:

Pay&Go offers you the choice of three different reload cards(*), depending on the amount that you want to pay. You have the choice of the following amounts: € 12.5 (US$12.21), € 25 (US$24) or € 50 (US$54). The last card - for € 50 - also gives you a free bonus of € 5.

• Just scratch the card to reveal a 13-digit code.
• Enter the code #121* followed by the 13-digit reload code
• Press [SEND] Y
• The total of the card is automatically added to your calling credit.

(*) These cards are available at any Proximus or Belgacom retailer, and also at the Post Office, at gas stations or at newsagents displaying the Pay&Go logo.

Rates:

When you purchase your Pay&Go prepaid Belgium SIM card, the default-pricing plan is the “Original”, however we recommend switching to the “Anytime” plan.

You may change plans, free of charge, up to three times a year (that year starts when you make the first call).

Pay&Go ORIGINAL

Belgium Domestic Rates (per minute)
Peak	Off-peak	SMS	WAP
$0.49/$0.73	$0.24	$0.14	$0.24

• Peak time - 8am-7pm weekdays
• Off-peak times - at all other times on weekdays, weekends, holidays

Pay&Go STUDENT

Belgium Domestic Rates (per minute)
Call Type	Peak	Off-peak
Talk	$0.49	$0.24
SMS	$0.24	$0.09
WAP	$0.24	$0.24

• Peak time - 8am-4pm weekdays
• Off-peak times - at all other times on weekdays, weekends, holidays

Pay&Go ANYTIME

Belgium Domestic Rates (per minute)
Call Type	Rate
Talk	$0.35
SMS	$0.14
WAP	$0.24

Belgium International Rates (per minute)
Country	Peak	Off-peak
USA	$1.03	$0.81
European Union, Switz. & Norway	$0.97	$0.73
Australia	$1.62	$1.40
Japan	$1.62	$1.40

International Roaming:

You can roam outside of Belgium and can call any European country from anywhere in Europe with your Pay&Go SIM card. Contact us for rates.

Service Life:

A Pay&Go Belgium prepaid SIM card is valid for a year. Every time you reload it with an airtime voucher, the 365-day counter is reset to zero and it's once again operational for a full year.

If you don't reload within 365 days, your Pay&Go prepaid SIM card will be deactivated. This means that you will lose your phone number and any possible remaining credit. To continue to use the Pay&Go prepaid SIM card, you will have to start all over again by buying a new Pay&Go SIM card with a new phone number.

To check the expiry date yourself, dial #121# (also accessible from abroad), then press the Yes/Send/Call key (depending on the phone). You will receive a text message containing the information you want. It goes without saying that this service is completely free.

Another way of checking the expiry date is to call the freephone number 1711 from your GSM. Pay&Go will advise you of the precise amount of credit that you have left, and also the remaining period for making calls, as well as the last date for reloading your Pay&Go SIM card. Please note that, unlike #121#, this number cannot be called from abroad.

Coverage:

Cellular coverage in Belgium is excellent, far exceeding typical cellular coverage in the US.

The Oasis

From the outside, No. 43, Gasthuisstraat, in the Belgian town of Poperinge looks like a typical 18th Century town-house of a type commonly found in the Low Countries. But, it’s famous world-wide. Outside fly the flags of Britain and Belgium, and a sign tells some of the story:

TALBOT HOUSE

1915 --- ?

EVERY-MAN’S CLUB

During the First World War, Poperinge was a place of relative safety, where soldiers could be withdrawn from the nearby front-line trenches of Flanders for a brief respite. Shops, cafés, cinemas and theatres were all open for the relaxing troops. But, the Rev. Philip Clayton, an Army chaplain, realised some soldiers needed something which wasn’t readily available in ‘Pops’.

Clayton sought to provide a ‘home from home’, where a man could sit quietly with his thoughts, maybe read, or write a letter home, have a quiet conversation over a cup of tea with a friend … or, if he wished, pray.

‘Tubby’ Clayton and his friend, the Rev. Neville Talbot, rented a house from hop merchant Maurice Coevoet and set up their ‘Every-Man’s Club’ where all soldiers, irrespective of rank were welcome.

They called it ‘Talbot House’ after Neville’s younger brother, Lt. Gilbert Talbot, killed at Hooge some months earlier. As soldiers will, they reduced the name to initials only, soon becoming, in the argot of Army signallers ‘Toc H’. ‘Nowadays’ said curator Jacques Ryckebosch ‘they’d probably call it ‘Tango Hotel’.

Toc H operated the ‘Robin Hood principle’. Officers’ Messes (the ‘rich!’) frequently ‘donated’ items of furniture, and other useful equipment for use in the club (by the ‘poor’) … often without their knowledge or permission! This was known as ‘scrounging’! It quickly became, in the words of one soldier ‘an oasis in a world gone crazy’. It offered a short respite, not only from the War but from the authority of the Army.

‘All Rank Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here’ says the sign on the door of Tubby Clayton’s room, paraphrasing the sign over the gates of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. That’s one example of the amusing signs around the place. There had to be rules, but Tubby saw no reason to get heavy about them.

A sign by the front door says ‘To Pessimists-Way Out’, with a pointing finger indicating the door.

‘The Boss Isn’t Always Right …but he is always THE BOSS!’ reads another.

A peculiarity of Toc H was that ‘the foundations are in the loft’. After much work, and not a little ‘scrounging’ by the Queen’s Westminster Rifles, who were billeted next door, the attic was converted into a chapel … usually simply referred to as the ‘Upper Room’. The altar was converted from a carpenter’s bench, which Tubby found in a garden shed. But, for hundreds of worshipping soldiers, it became ‘the shrine of the whole (Ypres) Salient’.

Food was always available … although you had to cook it yourself. Or, a cup of tea, a smoke or a companionable game of cards or billiards could be found. Sing-songs around the piano were popular. When Tubby put it about that a piano might be a welcome addition to the house’s inventory, resourceful soldiers ‘scrounged’ three!

Books could be borrowed from the library. But, all the notices in the world couldn’t prevent ‘scrounging’ so a system was devised whereby a soldier borrowing a book left his cap as deposit, without which he couldn’t leave the building.

An important feature was ‘Friendship’s Corner’. Here, on a bulletin board, soldiers could leave messages for, or make enquiries for their friends.

‘Come Into the Garden and Forget About the War’. Toc H was always proud of its restful ‘English Garden’, and still is to this day. ‘…. the largest room in the Old House’ wrote Clayton.

‘Men were everywhere, like lizards basking in the sun and half asleep’ he recorded. Another visitor said, in a letter home ‘The grass was almost unbelievably green; there were flowers and in a tree top, a bird was singing’.

Those were sights rarely seen in the Ypres salient at that time.

The garden was packed to capacity on 23rd July 1917, when Dr. Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop of York, preached a sermon on the eve of the Battle of Passchendaele.

The Toc H garden was only a short way in miles from the trenches … indeed, shortly after Clayton posted his ‘Come Into the Garden’ notice, a German shell landed nearby … causing one death, and damage for which Clayton subsequently received a bill from the house’s owner! But, in other respects, it was half a world away … and it still is.

Many people make pilgrimages to the Ypres Salient to visit the battlefields, museums, cemeteries and memorials. Some of them come to ‘Pops’ and Toc H, which has been preserved in almost exactly the state it was in the Great War, but still provides inexpensive hostel accommodation.

The garden is still there, kept just as ‘Tubby’ Clayton would have liked it, and it’s still available for visitors to go into, and, for a short while, ‘forget about the war’.

It wasn’t only soldiers who benefited from the facilities offered by Toc H. They frequently held parties and treats for the children of Poperinge.

‘They gave us cheese and toffees’ wrote Poperinge resident Jeanne Battheu ‘ …… we did not know what toffees were, but soon found out when we tasted them’

In 1917, when the activities seriously overcrowded the house, Tubby ‘seized’ the hop store next door, which became the ‘Concert Hall’. Several months afterwards, they say, he asked permission!

After the war, Toc H was handed back to its owner, but, ten years later, Major Paul Slessor, representing Lord Wakefield of Hythe negotiated the purchase of the house, and its presentation to the Talbot House Association. Major Slessor then sought to restore it to the way it was under Tubby’s benevolent rule, in which state it’s been ever since, except for during the Second World War, when the memorabilia were spirited away and hidden, to be returned after the war.

For many years, Toc H served as a hostel and rendezvous point for veterans revisiting the old battle-grounds, or for people seeking the graves of their friends and relatives. The name lives on with the Toc H movement, a charitable Christian fellowship and community service organisation.

And, Toc H itself is still a reasonably-priced self-catering hostel, usually used by those visiting the battlefields. Casual visitors are always welcome to look around … it’s been preserved almost exactly as it was in 1918, but although Jacques Ryckebosch was called the curator, he said that one thing Toc H is not is a ‘museum’.

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