Re: Calling international mobiles

On 23 Mar, 10:06, Jono <notha...@blueyonder.invalid> wrote:
> andy wrote on 22/03/2008 :
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> > On 20 Mar, 20:18, Jono <notha...@blueyonder.invalid> wrote:
> >> James Lewis explained :
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> >>> On 20 Mar, 18:34, simonclark...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>>> On 20 Mar, 17:04, Whiskers <catwhee...@operamail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On 2008-03-20, Leodiensian <chrisp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Everyone,
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> >>>>>> I currently have a Web n Walk Flext tariff with T-Mobile.
> >>>>>> My girlfriend lives in Germany and I call and text her mobile every
> >>>>>> day.
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> >>>>>> My monthly bill is regularly £250+
> >>>>>> My contract ended last month, so as well as looking at upgrade
> >>>>>> options, I really need to find a way of reducing this cost.
> >>>>>> I guess the options are:
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> >>>>>> 1) Find a tariff which allows "Friends and Family" type numbers, but
> >>>>>> which allows international mobiles (fat chance).
> >>>>>> 2) Find a tariff which is just generally lower for international
> >>>>>> calls.
> >>>>>> 3) Use a third party to route the call (where I have to dial some kind
> >>>>>> of prefix before her mobile number).
> >>>>>> Any advice greatly welcome.
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> >>>>>> Chris
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> >>>>> You might like to check out the "International" section at
> >>>>> <http://www.talkmobile.co.uk/home.php> (part pf Carphone Warehouse).
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> >>>>> -- *Whiskers
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> >>>> T-Mobile Business-1 sharer tariffs have inclusive minutes which
> >>>> include calls to USA, Canada, most of Europe (landline & mobile)
> >>>> within inclusive mins eg £50 per month will get you 2 phones & 500
> >>>> mins (or 1000 mins if you go direct to T-Mobile and sign for 24
> >>>> instead of 12 months).
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> >>>> So, assuming your girlfriend has a German landline and/or German
> >>>> mobile, calls to her will come out of inclusive mins.
> >>>> (As it's a sharer tariff, you'll need to get a minimum of two phones -
> >>>> calls between the two phones in the UK are free).
> >>>> Hope that helps
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> >>>> Regards
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> >>>> Simon
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> >>> For £2 a month extra on an Orange contract for their "Call Abroad
> >>> Subscription" you have calls to Germany for 20p/min...ok, its not the
> >>> cheapest but compared to standard mobile costs its a lot less
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> >> I think I'd rather have O2's My Europe Extra - £5 per month (inc VAT)
> >> and gives 1000 minutes per month of inbound roaming calls @ FOC.
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> >> The OP should get two SIMs - send one to the GF - £26 per month for 300
> >> UK minutes - plus the GF's My Europe Extra.
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> >> <http://www.o2international.co.uk/callingfromoverseas/myeurope_extra.a....>-
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> > This was the best suggestion so far, but not quite there ...
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> Oh but it is....I suggested two SIMs on a single business contract at
> £26 per month with 300 UK minutes. This also gives free calls "in
> group"....and to any other O2 number, for that matter.
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> > My Europe Extra is £10 a month on Pay & Go and on non-business
> > contracts
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> But £5 on business is better :-)
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> > And the cheapest way to call to that phone is another O2 SIM with the
> > £5 a month Your O2 Numbers - up to 1000 minutes to 10 favourite
> > numbers
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> >http://youro2numbers.o2.co.uk/010
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> Well, I still prefer a business contract with one lot of My Europe
> Extra for the GF.
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> The OP can call her out of the "in group" allowance. She can receive
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We diverge:

The OP doesn't mention whether the girlfriend is permanently in
Germany, so an 18 or 24 month business contract may be longer than is
required

Your method costs £26 or £31 (I'm not checking), while mine costs £15
a month, for a similar 1000 minutes fair use policy

Hey Chris,

I guess a good option for you would be Manifone.

You can stick with your current T-Mobile tariff, just make sure that
calls to UK landlines are cheap enough.

Just open an account at www.manifone.com/uk

They'll give you a London phone number that you can point to your
girlfriend's number in Germany.
Calls will cost 11p a minute to any german mobile + the cost of
calling a UK landline from your phone.

Works in a PAYG fashion, and is fairly simple to use once set up.
You'll actually get 8 UK numbers so you can set up more such "low cost
routes" to people you need to call abroad.

Hope this helps,

- Thomas

On 20 Mar, 16:36, Leodiensian <chrisp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess the options are:
>
> 1) Find a tariff which allows "Friends and Family" type numbers, but
> which allows international mobiles (fat chance).
> 2) Find a tariff which is just generally lower for international
> calls.
> 3) Use a third party to route the call (where I have to dial some kind
> of prefix before her mobile number).

4) Get her to call you from a landline, to a landline. My german
relatives rarely have to pay as much as 1 cent / minute to call the
UK.

5) Get a 3 which does Skype (x-series or Skypephone) and use that.

Ian

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:28:45 -0700 (PDT), Ian
<ian.groups@btinternet.com> wrote:

>On 20 Mar, 16:36, Leodiensian <chrisp...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I guess the options are:
>>
>> 1) Find a tariff which allows "Friends and Family" type numbers, but
>> which allows international mobiles (fat chance).
>> 2) Find a tariff which is just generally lower for international
>> calls.
>> 3) Use a third party to route the call (where I have to dial some kind
>> of prefix before her mobile number).
>
>4) Get her to call you from a landline, to a landline. My german
>relatives rarely have to pay as much as 1 cent / minute to call the
>UK.
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>5) Get a 3 which does Skype (x-series or Skypephone) and use that.
>
>Ian
Here's another idea for you.
Open an account with Voxalot.com. Point a UK 'landline' DID to it (you
can get one for free). Open an account with justvoip.com, that'll be a
credit of £10. They do calls to German mobiles for 7.5p/min inc VAT.
Call the UK 'landline' voip number and once set up on Voxalot it will
call the Greman mobile. So standard UK minutes from a mobile will do
the connection.
More info. via
uk.telecom.voip

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