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Cheapest way of calling and texting a Dutch mobile in France from an English mobile
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BretJemaine
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So my Dutch girlfriend has just moved to France for a year and I'm left with the problem of contacting her.
All the cheap phone deals are very unclear as to whether they would work with my situation, as I don't know whether it would be the same price if I have to go through the Dutch network as well.
Has anyone had any experience of such a convoluted inter-country syste and know how best to go about contacting her when I'm strapped for cash? The only way I have at the moment is a package from 3 to call international landlines 3000 minutes at £15 a month, but I have no way of knowing whether she will have a landline at her new apartment. I need a backup plan to call her mobile for cheap, I'd also like to be able to text her if I can.
Any advice would be brilliant.
All the cheap phone deals are very unclear as to whether they would work with my situation, as I don't know whether it would be the same price if I have to go through the Dutch network as well.
Has anyone had any experience of such a convoluted inter-country syste and know how best to go about contacting her when I'm strapped for cash? The only way I have at the moment is a package from 3 to call international landlines 3000 minutes at £15 a month, but I have no way of knowing whether she will have a landline at her new apartment. I need a backup plan to call her mobile for cheap, I'd also like to be able to text her if I can.
Any advice would be brilliant.
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Send her a o2 payg sim card with my europe extra on itANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.0
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For you it makes no difference where the Dutch mobile is. It costs you the same to call and text as if it was in Holland.
She will pay roaming charges for receiving/making calls and sending texts. Incoming texts are free (I think, at list it's the case for UK sims).
If she has any UK roaming sim you can use inclusive texts to text her (or pay UK rate) and it costs her nothing to receive the texts.0 -
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I'm still having problems with texting, there doesn't seem to be a cheap way to text dutch mobiles. Also she hasn't got internet in her flat, so skyping is impossible.
However, she does have internet at work, are there any websites we can go on to chat when shes got a break? She obviously can't log into skype and facebook is blocked.0 -
BretJemaine wrote: »I'm still having problems with texting, there doesn't seem to be a cheap way to text dutch mobiles. Also she hasn't got internet in her flat, so skyping is impossible.
However, she does have internet at work, are there any websites we can go on to chat when shes got a break? She obviously can't log into skype and facebook is blocked.
If you have Skype, you can purchase credit on your Skype account and text to any mobile in the world cost about £0.062p. You can also call any mobile through it then. It costs about 10p I think, but not entirely sure now ans can slightly differ by country. Calling landline is cheaper.
I have Skype app on my Iphone and use it to call my friends living abroad when at home on Wifi. Also use it on holiday when hotel has wifi at reception.. saves you fortune!
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/prices/payg-rates/0 -
BretJemaine wrote: »However, she does have internet at work, are there any websites we can go on to chat when shes got a break? She obviously can't log into skype and facebook is blocked.0
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Texting via skype seems like a good option. This is 7p a text, which I guess is a good improvement over 21p.
And to Grumbler, I think most email sites are banned - hotmail certainly is. I'll check out msn, I thought that they just did a downloadable version which I don't think is an option for her.0 -
Get the phone unlocked and put a local SIM in. Otherwise buy a cheap mobile.
For example http://mobile.carrefour.fr/espace-mobile/zte-x991.php?offre=sd
It's not a great phone but would at least reduce the call costs.
Many phones can run a MSN client.
Ideally she needs a phone that can use Skype and some form of data package.0 -
Buy two cheap unlocked phones if you don't have spares. One for you and one for her.
Buy a UK PAYG sim for her and ask her to buy a French or Dutch (her choice) PAYG sim for you.
Insert the new sims into the spare phones and use them for receiving messages.
Send messages from your main phones. Both of you will pay local rates or use inclusive texts.0
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