Mobile calls when abroad - the answer?

J

Jam Man

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Ok, so it's been debated to death, and the big problems are the call charges both when you make one and especially when receiving one..

Getting a Spanish SIM card is an option but many people find that their friends won't call a foreign number and thereby bear the additional cost of the call.

Is this the answer then (for those from the UK)?

Pay-as-you-go Sim company SIM4travel is set to undercut the operators' roaming rates with a cheaper tariff.

SIM4travel's new tariff will be launched on 1 September. It will cost consumers 25p per minute to make calls to another phone in the EU and calls will be free to receive. The Sim card costs £29.95 with £10 airtime. The company currently charges a 20p connection fee, which it will drop completely, and 39p for calls made to other mobiles.

The move follows £1.46m of new funding from investment company Nettworx, which allowed SIM4travel to buy a Home Location Register and set up its own platform.

SIM4travel was set up in 2004 and is run by former Phones 4u staff Paul Buck and Suk Grewal. The company said the aim was to target a market estimated to grow to 850 million roamers worldwide by 2010. Buck said: 'It is about changing customer behaviour. It's truly global.'

Buck said the company intended to grow its retail partners, which currently include Tesco, Boots and Carphone Warehouse.
 
O2 do something similar - 30p per min for EU calls - think you need to pay a few pounds to get it though - but worth it IMO than getting some random companys tarriff
 
Vodafone told me last week that as of the end of August some new legislation has been passed making it illegal for the phone companies to overcharge us for the overseas calls/recieving calls...

e.g.
Vodafone was 75p/min, now its 36p/min
Recieving calls is now only 19p/min on Vodafone

hopefully this'll mean i won't come back after this weekend with a massive bill!
 
as someone who managed to amass a £768 phone bill in 4 days in ibiza last june, i can only say that this would be a good thing
 
fatphilb said:
as someone who managed to amass a £768 phone bill in 4 days in ibiza last june, i can only say that this would be a good thing
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I'm still amazed by this feat :lol:

I had about £450 over 2 weeks this June, but £300 of that is being reimbursed by work!
 
O2 UK have MyEurope which is a free bolt on for both pay monthly and pay and go customers and as of around the start of august call charges were reduced to 35ppm for making calls and 18ppm for recieving calls

all you do is call 2266 to register but it takes a few days to set up so make sure you do it well before you leave on hols!

and no I dont work for O2 :lol:
 
simple answer what i did last year, purchase phone a phone card and use public call boxes and just ring uk landline numbers.

i prob spent £10 in phonecalls in a week.

i did text a few times from my mobile but at 30p per text (or whatever) from ibiza that aint any really big issue.

sure beats paying £100's in mobile bills by calling off ur mobile............ ;)
 
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