Off to New Zealand!!!

Robinmsa

Yes I'm off to New Zealand for about a month, I'm currently with O2, would it be cheaper for me to get a "Pay if you can", Sim card when I get there and use that, as I have an old unlocked phone. Or would it be cheaper for me just to use my pay monthly O2 Contract phone??? Or to use a "Pay if you can Sim" from over here, considering I allready have an O2 "Pay if you Can Sim"???

seaniboy

NZ Telecom & Voda are the only 2 providers

49cent a minute to UK - video calls $1.99

Voda prepay:
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/pricing_plans/prepay_landing.jsp?item=prepay

free$10credit
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/pricing_plans/prepay_credit.jsp?item=prepaycredit

Robinmsa

Thank you very much for that:D :rotfl: :beer:

medic1978

A UK vodafone PAYG sim (available free from their website), enabled with vodafone passport may be useful for longer calls.

Cost to make call to UK is 75p per call + whatever you would pay per minute if you were calling within the UK.
Cost of receiving a call is 75p per call (not per minute). Person calling you would just pay their normal rate (and inclusive minutes can be used)


With any of the NZ sims it will of course be free to receive a call at anytime, and there are cheap 0844/0845/0870 callthrough providers for people wanting to call you, from 6p per minute.
Click here to go to the international call checker

Robinmsa

So it looks like I should really buy one when I get there then???

seaniboy

do a combo of both...........

billy_love

I'm off myself for a month in two weeks and was wondering the same thing...........

Thanks for the answers
Bill

System

Telecom New Zealand doesn't use the same technology as the UK networks. You'd have to to use Vodafone, either with a local VF sim or another sim roaming (like O2 UK or Voda UK).

If your just going to get an occasional call, Vodafone passport will work in both NZ and OZ on the Vodafone networks. Elsewhere Vodafone is fairly expensive and the other UK networks are fairly pricey.

Using one of the java programs (like smsbug), texts will cost a few pence each to send. Otherwise, they will range from about 30p - 49p per text using a UK sim.

If your going to traveling about beyond OZ and NZ, then consider a prepaid sim from:

http://www.freeglobalsim.com/
http://www.storytelecom.com/simple.php

impy78

Robinmsa wrote:

So it looks like I should really buy one when I get there then???

Kia Ora!

I did that, and I bought $10 credit, and I came home with $2 after 3 weeks (and I made a few long calls), so I guess buying one there is really good value.

Have a brilliant time, it is the most amazing place in the universe!!!

Robinmsa

Thankyou Very much all of you!!!