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Calling UK home from Italy - 5c/call!
mk-donald
Posts: 750 Forumite
in Phones & TV
Just a tip for anyone visiting Italy and wanting to call home in the UK cheaply.
https://www.liberochiamate.it , which is the Italian version of the UK https://www.TopUpNow.co.uk , is currently STILL offering calls back to the UK for 5 cents per call + 0 cents per minute. And only 9c/minute for UK mobiles!
You'll need to be visiting someone in Italy with a landline you can use, and one that hasn't been blocked from calling premium rate phone numbers.
You can read the UK site to see how it works, and read the Italian site to see their charges, which are currently lower than UK!
UK can top up only in £1.50 chunks and calling IT is now 5p + 3p/min
IT can do 0.50/2.50/5.00 euros and calling UK is 5c + 0c/min
Watch out that this offer doesn't change before you use your credit up - calls from the UK to Italy were 5p+0p/minute last month... then +2p/min last week and now +3p/min! ie maybe best to buy credit in 50c chunks.
Hope this helps someone - certainly helps me when I'm visiting friends in Milan each month. (Obviously use the MSE callchecker to get the best value UK-> overseas call rates.)
(Oh and if you are making a LOT of calls back to UK from Italy from somewhere with a broadband Internet connection, you might like to pay Dixons £6.99/m for their freetalk voice over internet box/service.)
https://www.liberochiamate.it , which is the Italian version of the UK https://www.TopUpNow.co.uk , is currently STILL offering calls back to the UK for 5 cents per call + 0 cents per minute. And only 9c/minute for UK mobiles!
You'll need to be visiting someone in Italy with a landline you can use, and one that hasn't been blocked from calling premium rate phone numbers.
You can read the UK site to see how it works, and read the Italian site to see their charges, which are currently lower than UK!
UK can top up only in £1.50 chunks and calling IT is now 5p + 3p/min
IT can do 0.50/2.50/5.00 euros and calling UK is 5c + 0c/min
Watch out that this offer doesn't change before you use your credit up - calls from the UK to Italy were 5p+0p/minute last month... then +2p/min last week and now +3p/min! ie maybe best to buy credit in 50c chunks.
Hope this helps someone - certainly helps me when I'm visiting friends in Milan each month. (Obviously use the MSE callchecker to get the best value UK-> overseas call rates.)
(Oh and if you are making a LOT of calls back to UK from Italy from somewhere with a broadband Internet connection, you might like to pay Dixons £6.99/m for their freetalk voice over internet box/service.)
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