Mobile Roaming: Cheapest Calls When You're Abroad

Vodafone_company_representative wrote: »

For those customers who want to use their phone on holiday as they would at home, opting into Vodafone EuroTraveller may be more cost effective.

I think the point is that why should one have to pay £2/day for the privilege of roaming on Vodafone networks in other countries? Three doesn't levy roaming surcharges in many countries, so why can't Vodafone similarly abolish roaming surcharges, at least when roaming on Vodafone networks?

Nevertheless the only reason I have a Vodafone PAYG SIM card is because of Data Traveller, which charges £2/day or £5/day worldwide for 25MB of data (including on aircraft) which beats the competition.

Yes, but he was asking why do you charge at all for roaming on sister Vodafone networks?

NFH wrote: »

Nevertheless the only reason I have a Vodafone PAYG SIM card is because of Data Traveller, which charges £2/day or £5/day worldwide for 25MB of data (including on aircraft) which beats the competition.

Maybe it doesn't beat these for roaming data in Europe:

O2 UK: £1.99 a day for 50 MB on payg, no upper limit (but traffic management) on contract

T-mobile UK: £1 for 20 MB for 24 hours (or £3 for 100 MB)

Meteor Ireland: €0.99 for 50 MB a day

Orange Spain: €1 for 100 MB a day

Alditalk Germany: €4.99 for 150 MB for a week

Lidl Germany: €4.99 for 150 MB for a week

Base Belgium: €15 for 500 MB for a month (offer during July and August)

So here's my report back after wife and self used toggle mobile on three week trip to USA.

Arrived at Dulles International (Wash DC) and toggle connected and worked fine, automatically connected and was abkle to call our hosts to say we were on the way. Worked fine around Wash DC, made and received calls/texts without hitch, including local and UK calls/texts. Occasionally call quality was poor but guess that's true of nay network depending on network traffic and location.

After two days we moved to Outer Banks N.Carolina where there was NO signal whatsoever, a situation which lasted whole week. To be fair only AT&T users in our group got a usable signal so it wasn't just toggle/tmobile(US partner).

On to Pittsburgh and New York where toggle signal was again absolutely fine. In the course of the trip we made many calls texted frequently and daughter had to make calls home to UK to her bank about online banking problems - lengthy calls to 0845 no.

Got back to UK checked balance on toggle accounts (each required £20 top up to open) and I had spent the princely sum of £2 while my wife (on who's phone daughter made bank calls!) had spent £14. That's a huge saving on what we'd have had to pay with our usual providers.

So, overall in my opinion, the toggle sims were a success and I'll certainly keep them ticking over and use again future. Yes, there were coverage issues but in remote locations that's likely to be the case with any network ( a friend we stayed with says he can't get a decent signal in Manhattan!).
Thanks to Roger1 for the suggestion I'd definitely second the recommendation.

Ziggy_Stardust wrote: »

If its sim only I think you've had to have it registered for 30 days to qualify for the feel at home offer, I've registered mine and put credit on, I go away in 5 weeks so will just buy an add-on just before I go .

Thanks - does this apply to payg or is this for pay monthly? I'll try and register it before I go but I leave before 30 days so I think its going to be too late :-(