[access-uk] Re: telephoning overseas mobiles

  • From: "Stephen Green" <stephen.tina@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:40:43 +0100

Currently, my Wife is trapped in a mountain village in Slovakia where there are no public telephones and her mobile is not registered for operation abroad, so I've been looking into the best way of avoiding this problem in the future.
I telephoned our local independant mobile phone shop who have told me that she can purchase a new SIM card for pay as you go that costs 4 pence per minute to phone a British land line and 15 pence a minute to phone a mobile back here in the UK.
Calls to it cost the standard charge your local service charges, which is for me, 16 pence a minute, with no extra charges levied on her mobile.
The card costs 20 pounds and comes with 20 pounds of credit ready installed. So when she goes abroad again she'll change over the card in her mobile for the duration, although I think she may make the swap permanent as calls within the Uk are only 15 pence per minute against the present cost of 35 pence per minute with O2.
If this sounds at all useful to you maybe you could pop down to your own indepentant mobile phone shop to check this out, particularly as the card works in dozens of countries including Egypt, where she's due to visit next year.
I don't guarantee the details I've given in this email, but my Wife will certainly be checking it out next week. Sorry I also don't have a name for the card other than the salesman mumbled the word "lebarro". 

HTH

Steve Green
----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Ford" <caroline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:59 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: telephoning overseas mobiles



Hello,

On a related note, I wonder whether anyone can answer the following
question. I have recently been abroad and will be going away again in a few weeks. When I crossed the channel, I received a text message telling me it 
would cost 38p a minute to make a call from my mobile and 19p to receive
one.  What I wasn't sure about was what would happen if someone in the UK
rang my UK mobile while I was abroad. I would obviously pay 19p a minute to 
receive their call, but would they be charged as if I was still in the UK,
or would they be charged as if they were calling abroad.  It would seem
fairer if they were only charged as if I was still in the UK as they may not even be aware that I was out of the country so shouldn't really be penalised 
for that.

Just curious,

Caroline.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of deonv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 18 June 2008 11:17
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: telephoning overseas mobiles


Hi, the url for the moneysavingexpert international call checker is:

http://callchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/intcallchecker/

Toward the end of the page you'll find the country selector and other
search criteria settings.

Deon van Wyk

At 10:33 18/06/2008, you wrote:

TAke a look at www.moneysaving expert.com.
----- Original Message ----- From: "alex thynne" <alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;

<jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:21 AM
Subject: [access-uk] telephoning overseas mobiles



Hi

sorry for cross posting this but I want to reach as many of you as

possible.
I use skypeout from time to time using skype to go to contact people when I'm not on the computer via their mobiles, but I'm looking to see if there 
are even cheaper ways of doing this using either my landline or mobile
phone. I tried going up to the rebtel.com website which I can get around, 
but I have experienced difficulties with it because I found that I was
getting page errors so I could not update the mobiles contacts.  I

reported

this to them, but as yet I haven't had a reply.

If you have found a company I can use occasionally to call mobile numbers
overseas, I would be very grateful.  If they have websites, I'm hoping

that

I can read them with jaws version 9 on Windows xp, and service pack 3
installed on my computer.  I have a niece in Australia who doesn't have a
landline, and a couple of my friends as well who use their mobiles as

their

preferred means of communication.  According to what I've read on the

rebtel

site, it is possible to use their service in such a way as to make it
possible to use free minutes on a contract phone.

Thanks in anticipation of any help.

Alex
skype name: grytpype2006
windows live messenger name: alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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