International calls using free minutes?..

andy88_2

To resist this natural inclination, enter both numbers together as

07744974333p0092... then press send; you can save it like this as well

The pause character depends on the phone; press * 3 times on Nokia, hold down * on Motorola, others similar; check the manual

fingleburt

Just thought I would follow up with BT Mobile dont let you use your xnet minutes on this number. Just got my bill in and I got charged a few quid, apprently its in in "international zone". Grrr

WHIZKID2

im also on orange contract,and i'm very,very confused.
if i want to ring an english mobile in germany is it different to ringing a german mobile in germany, and are text messages priced differently depending on nationality of receiving phone, or where phone is?

marjorie_2

if i want to ring an english mobile in germany is it different to ringing a german mobile in germany, and are text messages priced differently depending on nationality of receiving phone, or where phone is?

as far as I know:
1. you cannot use simply-fone to call UK mobile anywher [would be silly anyway!]
2. calls 2 German mobiles calls aren't included in the service.

Also, BT mobiles do not charge for these calls - betcha fingleburt ran outa minutes etc..
also, i now used 07744 974 363 and quality is even better(specially to India/pakistan etc

andy88_2

WHIZKID2 wrote:

im also on orange contract,and i'm very,very confused.
if i want to ring an english mobile in germany is it different to ringing a german mobile in germany, and are text messages priced differently depending on nationality of receiving phone, or where phone is?

As marjorie says, the S-F service cannot be used for German mobiles (too expensive to come from their revenue from the number)

If you call from Orange to a British mobile, that will come from your contract inclusive minutes. If that phone is in Germany, it incurs incoming roaming charges, 30p to about £1 a minute depending on network and contract vs payg.

If the boyfriend has a German mobile, he may be able to use a calling card and free 0800 number on some networks to call you; this will be the cheapest way of using mobiles (if he calls your landline), but of course you can't expect him to make all the calls.

If your daughter can't find a way to call him on landline, then from landline use either 1899 or those other access numbers that sergeant121 mentioned @ 13p, or from mobile either use 1899 or dial direct from Orange contract phone for 20p/min - You can prepay blocks of international minutes with Orange and get 20% extra, so 5/6 of that = 16.7p - this block credit lasts up to 6 months I think.

Overall I think either landline to landline with 1899, or mobile to mobile via Orange.

I might be able to suggest something else in the future, but at the moment it doesn't work yet

edit - sorry I forgot to say anything on text messages, as I don't use them much - text messages depend on the country of the phone network, not the country it's in; int'l ones are more expensive, but free to receive; if they do lots of texts maybe he could have 2 phones, UK 1 for text, German one for talk

fingleburt

I can tell you that I didnt run out of minutes at all!!!, im not stupid . BTMobile DO charge you for using this number 100%. They class it as the number is being in an "international zone".

marjorie wrote:

if i want to ring an english mobile in germany is it different to ringing a german mobile in germany, and are text messages priced differently depending on nationality of receiving phone, or where phone is?

as far as I know:
1. you cannot use simply-fone to call UK mobile anywher [would be silly anyway!]
2. calls 2 German mobiles calls aren't included in the service.

Also, BT mobiles do not charge for these calls - betcha fingleburt ran outa minutes etc..
also, i now used 07744 974 363 and quality is even better(specially to India/pakistan etc

chris28sc

maybe its something to do with the fact that BT mobile are now using vodafone instead of T-mobile network? while T-mobile don't charge, vodafone do.

marjorie_2

vodafone may charge BUT apparently if u complain... they re-credit those calls to 07744974363 / 07744974333

(see previous posts )

marjorie_2

read in todays paper that Easyjet people are starting mobile srvice shortly [easymobile] via t-mobile

will that mean that being t-mobile it'll accept alll these calls to above numbers?
anyone have any idea... cos if yea, may be worth joining them as i'm sure [being easy....] they'll be damn competitive

chris28sc

just wondering if anyone has recently (i.e. from 22nd feb onwards) phoned the simply-fone access number using an orange phone. is the call still taken from their free cross net mins? i did it yesterday and my number of available mins does not seem to have decreased the correct amount. so just wondering if anyone can shine some light on the situation. thanks