USING MOBILE ABROAD (Holland) to phone back to UK? ANY TIPS?

BULLNOTBEAR

Hi, I shall be visisting Holland soon and wish to telephone back to the UK. I have been given £5 free calls by Orange and this is unlikely to last long at 70p per minute and 30p per minute to receive calls and an additional 30p per text.

Can anyone recommend a cheap telephone card which I can use with my Orange phone to make calls?

Somebody must know out there!? This site has got so big that searching for the info has becoming a nightmare!

Thanks in advance

andy88_2

You could get your phone unlocked (or take another old one) and put in a Dutch simcard.

NL has 5 networks and several mvno's. I was about to say that Orange NL has the cheapest international calls @ €0.45; also a friend bought a 2 for 1 offer just before Xmas (maybe it's still available), so you could halve that ...

But then I found
http://www.lebara-mobile.nl/engels/naar_buitenland.htm?all_countries=true

I hadn't heard of this - it roams on Telfort - but the calls look very good value

Another alternative is if you have a calling card account with international access numbers, use this with either phonebox or free 0800 calls on some networks (but some block access or the card has higher charges - NL seems to be difficult on this subject - could be too much trouble, but I'm told Orange works, KPN does not)

andy88_2

I just had a chat with one of the shops for Lebara

The card costs €10 with €3 value of calls; the call charges are apparently correct (I wondered if it was 13c + 35c, but no).

It's available from their shops in person only (I asked about mail order with credit card); 130 shops listed on website

Well I will probably get one the next time ...

BULLNOTBEAR

thanks andy- much appreciated- i will look into it.

Martyn

andy88_2

BULLNOTBEAR wrote:

thanks andy- much appreciated- i will look into it.

Martyn

Cheers; if it works like that, it's stunningly good - 9p a minute? And if you have a calling card account (I have Alpha Telecom - I'd ring the London number, not the NL 0800), you could even use it to call home and back out for NL landlines! (13c + 2p)

I want that firm to set up in some other countries.

I'd be interested to know how you get on.