Yeah, last year when traveling in Europe with a friend we had all sorts of trouble trying to get her a SIM card in Germany. They insisted they could only sell it if we provided the address of a German resident to tie the account to.<p>A German-speaking friend helped us solve it (I still don&#x27;t know exactly what he worked out with them), but it wasn&#x27;t a pleasant experience. Especially since in France we literally just walked into an Orange shop, and I said, in my bad US-high-school French, &quot;Nous voulons acheter une carte SIM&quot;, and they said &quot;OK&quot;, quoted a price and that was that.