VILNIUS - In Your Pocket
VILNIUS - In Your Pocket
VILNIUS - In Your Pocket
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Post<br />
Central Post Office (Centrinis Paštas) B-1, Gedimino<br />
7, tel. (+370) 700 554 00, www.post.lt. The<br />
glorious 1969 Soviet design inside the city’s main post office<br />
betrays a recently improved service that’s finally catching up<br />
with the 21st century. A ticket machine has been installed with<br />
instructions in English, making a visit finally something to look<br />
forward to rather than the nightmare it was in the past. Selecting<br />
a ticket in English should send you to a window where<br />
somebody speaks it. Note the extraordinary calendar on the<br />
wall on the right at the back that needs changing by hand<br />
daily. Late night post offices operate in two of the city’s large<br />
shopping centres at Ozo 25 (Akropolis), open 10:00 - 22:00,<br />
and Saltoniškių 9 (Panorama), open 10:00 - 22:00. QOpen<br />
07:30 - 19:00, Sat 09:00 - 16:00. Closed Sun. J<br />
Laptop login<br />
Wireless W If you’re wireless enabled, you’re ready to go<br />
online. There are many cafés, restaurants, hotels and public<br />
spaces in Vilnius that are a part of a network of paid wireless<br />
internet hotspots. Notable locations include the whole of<br />
Pilies and Gedimino, the city’s tourist information centres and<br />
the airport, of which the latter also has a few areas where<br />
you can connect for free. To use these hotspots, just turn<br />
your wireless on and choose the Zebra network. When you<br />
open your web browser you’ll see a page with instructions<br />
and prices. You can pay via SMS if you’ve got a local SIM<br />
card. Be warned, however, that the Zebra network is neither<br />
cheap nor particularly reliable. Several cafés and hotel lobbies<br />
around town provide free wireless access.<br />
3G Both Bitė (www.bite.lt) and Omnitel (www.omnitel.lt)<br />
provide 3G services for laptop connection to the internet<br />
allegedly wherever you are within Lithuania. What you actually<br />
get is far from perfect, but if you’re prepared for slightly<br />
slower speeds than broadband, your connection dropping<br />
out a few times a day and incompatible software that could<br />
conflict with your operating system then one of these<br />
services might be just for you. With the added convenience<br />
of GPRS backup for obscure locations, both companies<br />
offer a range of prepaid and contract options.<br />
Dialup Assuming you’ve got an RJ-11 plug on the end of<br />
your cable (visitors from the UK please note that you probably<br />
don’t), a nifty, hassle-free dialup option is available for<br />
those who can’t find any other connection. Simply dial tel.<br />
890 15 55 55 from anywhere in the country using your dialup<br />
software of choice leaving the username and password<br />
blank and away you go. Calls are charged at a standard<br />
0.12Lt/min at all times from a private line (this figure may<br />
well be a lot higher in a hotel), and everything is charged<br />
directly to whoever’s telephone account you’re using.<br />
Prepaid SIM cards<br />
Card Price<br />
(Lt)<br />
vilnius.inyourpocket.com<br />
Local<br />
(Lt/min)<br />
London<br />
(Lt/min)<br />
Top-up<br />
(Lt)<br />
Mail & Phones<br />
Emergency numbers<br />
Police Fire Ambulance Tel. 112<br />
Postal rates<br />
Lithuania EU Outside EU<br />
Letter (44g) 1.65Lt 2.95Lt 3.35Lt<br />
Postcard (20g) 1.55Lt 2.45Lt 2.90Lt<br />
CD (130g) 2.50Lt 5.90Lt 11.75Lt<br />
Express mail rates<br />
Comparative rates for sending a package weighing a<br />
maximum of 500g.<br />
London Paris New York<br />
DHL 170Lt 170Lt 240Lt<br />
EMS 215Lt 213Lt 210Lt<br />
TNT 163Lt 181Lt 265Lt<br />
UPS 174Lt 192Lt 279Lt<br />
Mobile phones<br />
Bitė G-5, Žemaitės 15, tel. (+370) 699 232 30, www.<br />
bite.lt. QOpen 09:00 - 18:00. Closed Sat, Sun. A<br />
Omnitel B-1, Gedimino 12, tel. 1533, www.omnitel.lt.<br />
QOpen 09:00 - 18:00, Sat 10:00 - 16:00. Closed Sun.<br />
TELE2 G-4, Vytenio 9/25, tel. (+370) 601 102 00,<br />
www.tele2.lt. QOpen 09:00 - 18:00. Closed Sat, Sun.<br />
<strong>In</strong>ternet cafés<br />
Taškas G-4, J. Jasinskio 1/8 (entrance from V. Kudirkos,<br />
2nd floor), tel. (+370) 685 240 24. Reasonably central,<br />
climb the flight of stairs and fight with the teenagers for a<br />
battered albeit perfectly decent PC. Q Open 24hrs.<br />
Express mail<br />
DHL Dariaus ir Girėno 81, tel. (+370) 5 236 07 00, www.<br />
dhl.lt. QOpen 08:00 - 19:00. Closed Sat, Sun.<br />
EMS Rodūnios Kelias 9, tel. (+370) 5 239 83 28,<br />
www.post.lt. QOpen 08:00 - 20:00, Sat 10:00 - 16:00.<br />
Closed Sun. 1<br />
TNT Dariaus ir Girėno 44, tel. (8-800) 252 22, specialservices.vno@tnt.com,<br />
www.tnt.lt. QOpen 07:30 - 18:30.<br />
Closed Sat, Sun.<br />
UPS E-5, Eigulių 15, tel. (+370) 5 247 22 22, www.skubiossiuntos.lt.<br />
QOpen 08:00 - 18:00. Closed Sat, Sun.<br />
SMS<br />
(Lt)<br />
Voicemail<br />
(Lt/call)<br />
Bitė (Labas) 6 0.49 1.99 5/10/20/40/99 0.11 0.10 99%<br />
Omnitel (Ežys) 5 0.46 2.03 From 5 0.10 Free 99%<br />
TELE2 (Pildyk) 4.50 0.48 1.85 5/7/10/15/20/35/50 0.10 0.15 96%<br />
Note All prices quoted are for peak-time calls, and are subject to change during the lifespan of this guide.<br />
Coverage<br />
August - November 2012<br />
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