Holiday want to take my mobile! HELP

dragons1

Hi,
Im off snowboarding to France for 10 days and i wanted to take my mobile phone with me. Whats the best and cheapest way of calling back to the UK and for others to call me from the UK? Is there anyway to get a go anywhere sim card? Also is it any good. Any help would be amazing
THANKS ALL

the_tired_one

I was in Italy last week and on the 3 Newtwork, I could receive and make calls within my inclusive allowance.

I find buying a local Phone card allows you to make cheap calls back to the UK - costs about £5, and can make about an hour of calls. Pretty good.

rajinder

the_tired_one wrote:

I was in Italy last week and on the 3 Newtwork, I could receive and make calls within my inclusive allowance.

What network allows you to receive and make calls abroad within inclusive allowance ?

the_tired_one

rajinder wrote:

the_tired_one wrote:

I was in Italy last week and on the 3 Newtwork, I could receive and make calls within my inclusive allowance.

What network allows you to receive and make calls abroad within inclusive allowance ?

I clearly said '3 Network';) (excusing the typo)

black-saturn

My daughter is on the 3 network and used her mobile phone in Egypt and in Vietnam for the same call charges as they are here so I'm sure you will be able to in France.

redux

Depending which UK network you are on, there are interesting options available.

For Vodafone look at Passport, which means a 75p connect fee per call, then the same charges as at home, as long as you stay on the nominated network per country.

The 3 Like Home mentioned above applies only when roaming on another 3 network, which there is in Italy but not France.

O2 have just launched My Europe Extra. My Europe [ordinary] means incoming and outgoing calls at 35p, but Extra has a £10 a month fee, then incoming calls free, outgoing at 25p, while roaming on any network in 31 listed countries.

If you think about using a local SIM in an unlocked phone, there are three French networks: Bouygues, Orange, SFR. They don't have attractive ordinary tariffs, but there are some interesting bundle options that you could use via a calling card, and I would also look at callback services.

info and network links - http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/france.html

Just going out for a couple of hours, and I'll try to add a bit more later

dragons1

Hi just an update of my situation i emailed story telecom this is there reply! seems a very good deal!

Dear Oliver,



The best product for your need will be Story Simple product.

You can receive free call during your visit to France (Free roaming in more than 60 countries) and make cheap calls back home to England.

For more information see http://www.storytelecom.com/simple.php



Regards,

redux

Yes, I left the global roaming SIMs out in my hurry last night, and also links to Martin's article and the discussion thread about it

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid1119870249,48922,

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=2530781#post2530781