Calling Canada from the U.K.( Mobile )

paul2468

My sister is visiting the U.K. for a holiday from Canada, she will be out and about touring and would like to keep in Contact with people back in Canada, i thought about getting her a cheap mobile and sim card but dont know what to get.....can anyone help please.

grumbler

International CallChecker

0.5p/min (4-5p connection) is available for calling both mobiles and landlines. Both 18185 and TeleTop have 020 access numbers for calling from UK mobiles.

Cheap mobiles are available for 1p with £10 topup from http://www.e2save.com/mobile-phone/payg.html?sortOrder=orderByPaygHandsetPrice or mobiles.co.uk/pay-as-you-go-mobile-phones.html (plus quidco/TCB cashback). After using £10 it is worth switching to some other sim (http://giffgaff.com/ or something else)

ETA: be careful with TeleTop. If you make £5 topup it will make you about 1000 minutes, but you will have only £5 credit left from the original £10. You really don't want to topup the original sim coming with the 1p phone and you cannot use the remaining minutes with other mobile unless you port the number.

ZINXYX

Hi,
You might want have a look at this, up to 3000 minutes to Canada mobiles and landlines and you get a call me number which will be a local Canada number so they don't pay int rates when calling her.

http://www.o2.co.uk/internationalfavourites

Hope it helps.

nowtsquared

Extending grumbler's suggestion you could try investing 12 euros in https://www.intervoip.com - calls to Canada cost .6 euro cents/min, they provide access numbers in UK and elsewhere and you have flexibility as to numbers you associate with your account - both mobile and landline.

eagleeye

I use 02033473399 to call canada for free as i have got unlimited land line minutes.I believe this number belongs to calldiscount.com.Get any good pay as you go sim card with plenty of landline minutes