Phone card for Germany

steveteach

Hi

My son is based in Germany (in the Army). I understand you can buy phone cards for him to use and keep the cost of phoning home down. He has a UK mobile and a German mobile (T mobile I think).

Any suggestions for cutting the phone costs from Germany to UK?

FF99

steveteach wrote:

Hi

My son is based in Germany (in the Army). I understand you can buy phone cards for him to use and keep the cost of phoning home down. He has a UK mobile and a German mobile (T mobile I think).

Any suggestions for cutting the phone costs from Germany to UK?

Have a look at https://www.verivox.de who have excellent e-phone cards that can be bought online with a UK credit card. If calling from a fixed line the Mox cards are the best. There are also all sorts of options for mobiles (which I have not explored).

steveteach

Hi FF99

Thanks for that, will have a look.

redux

Quite a few German phone cards will have high tariffs for calling via 0800 numbers. It's worth trying to find one with a local area code number, or an 0800 number from other providers that isn't barred by T-mobile ...

http://www.masterbell.com/phone-cards/UK/from/Germany

I think there are some useful tariff options on T-mobile - either off-peak bundles, favourite number, or pay only the first minute or two - worth checking, if he hasn't already.

Is there any way he can use a landline, even for just incoming calls? Either you can call him with cheap calls providers, or he could use a callback service between the landlines, triggering the incoming call separately with the mobile ...

stluke023

08715513737 to ring a german mobile @ 8p a min from land line

stluke023

my daughter has a german tmobile sim in the uk and she can text at local german pay-as-u-go rates, and receive free here in uk

steveteach

Hi Thanks folk for the info, just got to get him to "phone home" now.