Quick Question - Mobiles abroad.

rizla01

Hial, Can anyone help me with some info, please.

DW is going to tunisia for a week and wants to know

a) what does it cost to send texts from abroad?
b) " ......... " . " ............... recieve .......... " "
c) what do calls cost to receive and
d) " ......... ..... " .......... send

We are both on Virgin.

anyone?

Thanks

redux

I think it would be worth you asking to have this moved to the Mobiles Board. Meanwhile ...

The first thing is that Virgin has different tariffs and coverage for prepaid and monthly post-paid by DD. And Tunisia is not covered by the pure prepaid version.

Incoming texts are always free, and their tariff shows that outgoing texts are 25p. Call charges £1.00 outgoing, 50p incoming.

It may be worth getting a local SIM to put in an unlocked phone.
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/tunisia.html has details of the two networks there, with tariff and other info. Tunisiana seems to have slightly cheaper calls to UK, at 17p vs 20p, but I can't see the price and credit on the SIMs; maybe try the actual network sites

To call a Tunisia mobile from here, see the MSE Callchecker - seems to cost about 9 to 13p per minute.

rizla01

Well I also have a selection of sims from all of the other networks in the UK.

would it be better to change to another network?

o2, voda, T.Mobile, orange?

redux

Payg tends to be more expensive for roaming, and they'll all have fairly similar tariffs, around £1 a minute, but check their websites

eg Orange £1.40 call, 90p receive. O2 99p each, or £1.49 to call other UK mobiles

O2 payg does have a free call of up to a minute, and a free sms, per week - if she gets a Tunisian SIM, this would be handy to call home with the number.

otherwise stick with text messages I think

rizla01

Ok Redux.

Thanks for the info.

as you say Texts it is.

Wow a week of silence except for the chirp of the phone. Don't know how I'll manage.

Can't wait