phoning home from florida usa?

yummymummyoftwo

i have got a t mobile sim and topped up and as i believe its 40p a text to text from florida usa to uk?well i hope im right,i know the phone call would be much more so im happy just to text.
After looking it up i believe t mobile is a network in the usa and would this be why its cheaper than any other network?
also on the instructions it said to ring a number to see if your phone was set up for abroad phone calls and it said it was

evergreen

I know when my son was at universtity in the USA, he rang home using a phone card he bought in the local store and it was cheap. He did it through his US mobile. This might be worth investigating.

steveo3002

you can get a $5 phone card from any 7/11 store or corner shop type place , 99% of hotels allow you to use these to call home

$5 will get you several decent phone calls home

baileysbattlebus

There are loads of different phone cards in US - we always use one - you can get a decent number of mobile minutes for about $10 but a lot more landline minutes for the same money. You can get them at garages, supermarkets, tourist shops, Walmart, Publix. Florida is an easy place to get them.

Be careful which one you buy and read the card properly before you buy - you might see 500 minutes for $5 but they will be within the US and Canada, somewhere else on the card it will tell you the international minutes. So look and compare.

We take our mobiles - is yours a tri band, if not it won't work - but only to contact us in an emergancy. The cost of receiving calls is prohibitive too.
This includes voicemail.

steveo3002

oh and never buy a phone card of a holiday rep if your going on a package deal...they sell $10 ones but have a lousey amount of minutes

My_Fathers_Daughter

My hubby used to be on t-mobile and when we were in the states last new year it was 40p to text or 5p to send a picture

So he sent everyone at home a piccie with a few words on it instead of a text!

yummymummyoftwo

thats a bit strange about a picture message being 5p?
thanks thats great i'll deffo be sending a pic with text then

Edinburghlass_2

From the Roaming article..

Using T-mobile in Europe? Don't text, MMS!

Rather bizarrely, if you send a picture message (MMS) when in one of T-Mobiles Region 2 countries (most of Europe) it costs 20p, whereas texting is 40p. Thus, if you want to text home simply send an MMS instead; don't worry if you haven't got a picture to send, just put the words in the message without one and it still works fine (more info at T-Mobile MMS loophole).