Cheap way to call UK mobs from abroad/using my inclusive minutes?

antsea

Hi everyone.

I wonder if anyone has any ideas about how I can call a UK mobile cheaply from South Korea. The cheapest I have found so far is using Skype at 14p/min....but it seems to charge more somehow..the credit just vanishes. Buying calling cards here is about the same rate.

I have inclusive minutes in my S Korean contract. I also have an override number here that lets me call UK landlines for free, but not mobiles. So maybe if I can use some kind of landline access no.

I was thinking of using 18185 and calling the mobile access number, but I doubt if it will let me register my SK phone number. Worth a try I suppose.

Any better ideas?

Techhead_2

If its one particular person then O2 international favourites might help (if they cover your country ).

The person in this country (or you on their behalf) pays £10 a month for 3000 minutes to call nominated overseas landline, but more importantly gets a Call Me number. This is a landline number in your country, so calls to it will come out of your inclusive minutes.

grumbler

https://www.google.com/voice/rates?hl=en-GB

$0.10+VAT PC to mobile calls, i.e. about 8p

redux

antsea wrote: »

I have inclusive minutes in my S Korean contract. I also have an override number here that lets me call UK landlines for free, but not mobiles. So maybe if I can use some kind of landline access no.

I was thinking of using 18185 and calling the mobile access number, but I doubt if it will let me register my SK phone number. Worth a try I suppose.

I suspect that they wouldn't accept defining a foreign number, but it's worth a try.

However, there are other providers which would either accept calls from a pre-defined number, or else allow you to enter your account number and PIN, then the destination number. So you might call a UK number and then go from there. Many of the Betamax/Dellmont VoIP brands would allow this, and there will be others

There will be other providers which offer you a local access number, like a calling card access, which might be a little simpler as it cuts out one access number to dial in your sequence as above. I was hoping that for example Localphone would have access numbers there, but not at the moment.

Or you might use a callback service. This is effectively like setting up 2 outgoing calls and connecting them together, and can be triggered by a choice of methods, calling a number which doesn't actually answer and sets up a call back to your phone, or sms, or internet. When your phone answers you either dial the destination or you may have already defined it in the trigger method, in which case it will be ringing. Callback costs the aggregate of the 2 call tariffs, so may work out a little more, but on the other hand calling a Korean mobile is not expensive, and comparing it to calling your access number that does have a notional cost anyway, the average of your contract inclusive minutes

Or can you use other VoIP providers directly, seeing as you mentioned Skype? If your mobile has wi-fi access, or if you use other internet access, there are providers with lower tariffs than Skype's rates, down to low single figures per minute.

grumbler

redux wrote: »

I suspect that they wouldn't accept defining a foreign number, but it's worth a try.

I live abroad. Can I still use your service?

antsea

Or can you use other VoIP providers directly, seeing as you mentioned Skype? If your mobile has wi-fi access, or if you use other internet access, there are providers with lower tariffs than Skype's rates, down to low single figures per minute

I think this might be my best bet, as looking into Korean companies will be hard for me, and Korean employer says there aren't any good rates to UK.

Any examples of VOIP off the top of your head that are good for UK mobile? any beat google above?

grumbler

http://www.voipproducts.eu/betamax-rates/

Neither beats google