Phone Forces Abroad

WHIZKID2

DOES ANYONE KNOW THE CHEAPEST WAY TO PHONE BRITISH FORCES IN GERMANY?
DAUGHTERS BOYFRIEND ONLY HAS MOBILE (NOT SURE IF uk OR GERMAN) OR SOME SORT OF FORCES CARD.
COSTING US A FORTUNE!
WE HAVE CONTRACT/PAY AS GO MOBILES,BT AND NTL LAND LINES

andy88_2

Join 1899 and call from a landline to landline. This will be the cheapest; at the moment 3p per call from BT and other landlines. If one of your mobiles is on an Orange price plan contract, you can access free via an 08081 number, again 1899 charge 3p.

Whether it will stay at this price or go back up to 1/2p per minute, anybody's guess

If you can only call a German mobile they charge 15p per minute

http://www.call1899.co.uk/index2.php

sergeant121

Calling a German mobile on 1899 costs 15p/minute but that can be reduced to 13p (with thanks, again, to the MSE Call Checker):

Telestunt 13p/min (09119224141)
Budgetcom 13p/min (09119221221)
Telesavers 13p/min (09119226226)
CheapestCalls 13p/min (09119221414)

WHIZKID2

Is That From A Mobile Or Land Line

WHIZKID2

WHIZKID2 wrote:

Is That From A Mobile Or Land Line

AND HOW DO I REGISTER WITH 1899? PLEASE BEAR WITH ME, I'M NEW TO ALL THIS POSTING STUFF,AND ANYTHING TO DO WITH MOBILES COMPUTERS,INTERNET ETC

sergeant121

WHIZKID2 wrote:

AND HOW DO I REGISTER WITH 1899? PLEASE BEAR WITH ME, I'M NEW TO ALL THIS POSTING STUFF,AND ANYTHING TO DO WITH MOBILES COMPUTERS,INTERNET ETC

First thing WHIZKID2, is find the Caps Lock key on the left and turn it off (posting in capitals is considered to be shouting and rude).

Second, the list of 0911 numbers I gave above is calling from a UK landline to a German mobile.

Third, registering with call1899.co.uk is easy but can only be done online (you'll need to have your debit or credit card handy when you do so). Just click HERE and then on the Sign Up link at the top left of the 1899 website and fill in the necessary information.

However, although 1899 is the cheapest way to call a German landline (3p connection and then 0p per minute), it is not the cheapest way to call a German mobile.

WHIZKID2

sergeant121 wrote:

First thing WHIZKID2, is find the Caps Lock key on the left and turn it off (posting in capitals is considered to be shouting and rude).

thankz for your help i'm very,very new to this and i had no idea about shouting, so sorry! is there anything else i should know before i offend anyone?

sergeant121

No worries. We all have to learn. Nobody's taken offence.

System

I know from experience that forces bases differ. Some of them have cyber rooms where computers are freely available. If you daughters friend is computer literate and if she is, they could either email one another or do the messenger thing. That is where they both sit and type, reading one anothers message as it is being written.

Then there is text on mobiles. Sending text is infinately cheaper than making the actual call.

As our daughter is in the forces, we know only too well the two "c" words, communication & cost.

Equally annoying are mobiles and coverage. From one base she could get only a poor signal, aquired second mobile, fine. Then changed base and the second mobile was ineffective and so on. From the two "c" words, has led us to the "f" word, "frustration".

Let us know how it works out, and don't worry about causing offence. We are all human and as such, are all subject to making errors. Some people are less tolerant than others though.