Cheapest way to ring parents in Greece

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At the moment i'm on 02 200 contract. Mum and dad
have a virgin
mobile (UK) but they live in greece. AIUI I call
them out of my free
minutes and they pay 60p to receive. Or they call
me for 95p/minute.
This is obviously expenensive. Last call was £20
for 20 minutes.

Any easy ways to bring the cost down? They dont
have the internet or
land line yet and i'm just into a new contract.


may be better for them to bet a 'local' sim of
their phone, if its unlocked.

roy

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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At the moment i'm on 02 200 contract. Mum and dad have a virgin
mobile (UK) but they live in greece. AIUI I call them out of my free
minutes and they pay 60p to receive. Or they call me for 95p/minute.
This is obviously expenensive. Last call was £20 for 20 minutes.

Any easy ways to bring the cost down? They dont have the internet or
land line yet and i'm just into a new contract.

Either get them on to o2 PAYG with the "My Europe" extra enabled - £10 per
month fee, free incoming, 25p per min. back to UK. see link below for
details.
http://www.o2.co.uk/international/tr.../myeuropeextra

Or, after August 31st, all operators are having to reduce their roaming
rates at the behest of the EU. Of the operators who have announced (from a
brief check of their web sites, I admit I didn't look that hard) what their
charges will be "3" appear to be the cheapest.
Orange - 38p per min to make a call, 19p per min to receive.
http://www1.orange.co.uk/go/

T-Mobile - 38p per min to make a call 19p per min to receive.
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/u...c_id=euroaming

Vodafone - 38p per min to make a call, 19p per min to receive.
http://www.abroad.vodafone.co.uk/ind...ropricing.test

3 - 25p per min to make a call, 10p per min to receive.
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/help...adineurope.omp

Bear in mind that you would have to buy new handset from 3 (or have an
unlocked dual mode handset already) for the 3 option to be viable. Cheapest
3 PAYG handset on their web site is a Nokia 6151 for 90 quid.
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> Either get them on to o2 PAYG with the "My Europe" extra enabled - £10 per
> month fee, free incoming, 25p per min. back to UK. see link below for
> details.http://www.o2.co.uk/international/tr...oabroad/myeuro...


Great thanks for all the info! I may wait to see what happens after
August but the o2 with free calls for £10/month sounds ideal

In article <[email protected]>,
"royc" <[email protected]> wrote:

> may be better for them to bet a 'local' sim of
> their phone, if its unlocked.

Taking this one step further, the OP could then use a dial-through
service to call that Greek SIM. For example,
<http://www.0844calls.co.uk/rates.php#g> costs 6p/min to a Greek mobile
from a landline using 0871 754 90 90, and if it's an old O2 contract
0871 comes out of inclusive minutes, I think (or has this now been
scrapped?).

[I looked at a few dial-through services I had bookmarked and this was
the cheapest; others ranged from 8p-15p to Greek mobiles.]

[email protected] wrote:
>> Either get them on to o2 PAYG with the "My Europe" extra enabled -
>> £10 per month fee, free incoming, 25p per min. back to UK. see link
>> below for
>> details.http://www.o2.co.uk/international/tr...oabroad/myeuro...
>
>
> Great thanks for all the info! I may wait to see what happens after
> August but the o2 with free calls for £10/month sounds ideal


If they have a UK bank, they could switch to paying for their service via
Direct Debit, this brings down the cost of roaming, until you work out what
you want to do.


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Chris Leuty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Taking this one step further, the OP could then use a dial-through
> service to call that Greek SIM. For example,
> <http://www.0844calls.co.uk/rates.php#g> costs 6p/min to a Greek mobile
> from a landline using 0871 754 90 90, and if it's an old O2 contract
> 0871 comes out of inclusive minutes, I think (or has this now been
> scrapped?).

Or, if they're not included, call18185.co.uk is 10p/min to Greek mobiles.
You'd call the 18185 access number (0208xxxx) from your mobile (which would
be in your inclusive minutes) then you'd be billed the 10p separately.

If that sounds too complicated, manifone.com will issue a geographic UK
number which redirects to the Greek mobile number you've specified, and they
then bill you the redirected bit separately. They're 11.6p/min, so a bit
more expensive.

Theo

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > Either get them on to o2 PAYG with the "My Europe" extra enabled -
£10 per
> > month fee, free incoming, 25p per min. back to UK. see link below
for
> >
details.http://www.o2.co.uk/international/tr...ad/paygoabroad
/myeuro...
>
> Great thanks for all the info! I may wait to see what happens after
> August but the o2 with free calls for £10/month sounds ideal

Or Vodafone Passport - then they'll pay 75p per incoming call (up to
an hour) - will be cheaper unless you phone them every other day!

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