O2 abroad. Incoming calls

GlennTheBaker

I would say that unless you are expecting an important call while you are abroad, ask O2 to block incoming calls whilst roaming. You could also change your voicemail greeting to say 'don't bother leaving a message, text me instead'. Anyone who needs to get a message to you will be able to but you won't have to pay the expensive incoming call charges.

sya220

It sounds a stupid question. If my phone is unlock, can I take the sim card off and use one of the local sim card (for local use), without asking o2 to do anything?

knuckledragger

sya220,
It depends which country you are visiting. If it's just Europe then you could probably use an unlocked phone and drop a local sim into it. If it's the USA then you'd need a tri-band phone...

ento_2

Why not just leave a message on your voicemail saying that you are uncontactable for voicecalls for the next week... but can receive texts? That way anyone who needs to get in touch with you, i.e. not salesmen, will text you. companys won't bother texting as they know you won't reply to them, friends/family will text.

It also has your peice of mind that the "private number calling" is going to get the message telling them what to do if they want you! And if you see the call from your friend you no who can't follow instructions so you can have a pop at them on your return!!!

GlennTheBaker

ento wrote:

Why not just leave a message on your voicemail saying that you are uncontactable for voicecalls for the next week... but can receive texts? That way anyone who needs to get in touch with you, i.e. not salesmen, will text you. companys won't bother texting as they know you won't reply to them, friends/family will text.

It also has your peice of mind that the "private number calling" is going to get the message telling them what to do if they want you! And if you see the call from your friend you no who can't follow instructions so you can have a pop at them on your return!!!

The only problem with the above that I can see is that unless you divert all calls to voicemail before leaving the UK, everytime someone calls, the call is ignored and the voicemail takes over, this will be charged as an incoming call (ie expensive) as the call will have actually been "answered" by the voicemail whilst roaming. If you set all calls to be diverted to voicemail before leaving the UK then the call should never get as far as the foreign network and so you shouldn't be charged.

redux

I think that is what needs to be clearly sorted out in advance; as I said, I'm not confident that I asked the question or had the answer clearly enough .

sya220

knuckledragger wrote:

sya220,
It depends which country you are visiting. If it's just Europe then you could probably use an unlocked phone and drop a local sim into it. If it's the USA then you'd need a tri-band phone...

how about China and Hong Kong? I have got a Motorola V220. Is it tri-band?
Thank you in advance.

redux

China 900, Hong Kong 900 & 1800 (& 3g) bands like here

http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml

Poppy9

My OH just tried customer services. They said to put 1740 into the phone to bar all incoming calls and then 1750 when you want to allow calls again. You can still receive texts. However she did need to go and check with a couple of people before telling him that.

I've just checked the website and found:

Call barring
Call barring lets you stop outgoing and/or incoming calls. You may be able to set up call barring using our phone's menu. If not, follow the instructions below, or ask your Service Provider to activate the service and provide you with a barring code. Before you can use call barring, make sure that call forwarding is switched OFF.

To check if call barring is ON or OFF
Key: *#33# then press send

To bar all outgoing calls
Key: *33* your barring code then # then press send

To cancel call barring
Key: #33* your barring code then # then press send

To change your barring code
Key: **03*330* old code * new code * new code # then press send

To bar all outgoing international calls
Key: *331* your barring code then # then press send

To bar all outgoing international calls except to the UK
Key: *332* your barring code then # then press send

To bar all incoming calls
Key: *335* your barring code then # then press send

To bar all incoming calls when you are outside the UK
Key: *351* your barring code then # then press send

To bar all calls to premium rate numbers
Contact your Service Provider

redux

sounds like you'll be taking a piece of paper with all that on

or you could save some in the phonebook