Peugeot in car phone help

deferred_pensioner

Hi ,

Can anyone help me.

We have just bought a Peugeot 407 with RT4 coms pack whereby you can put your sim card into a slot in the dash and the car becomes a phone , great.

However swapping the sim card from phone to car and back again is a right pain.

Is it possible to have two sim cards with the same number.?

Alternatively if I got a pay as you go card and left it in the car and forwarded the calls from my contract phone to the pay as you go then cancelled the forward when we weren’t with the car would the pay as you go receive my forwarded calls when we were abroad .

Can anyone offer any help or suggestions.

Thanks

DonnyDave

deferred_pensioner wrote: »

Is it possible to have two sim cards with the same number.?

May technically be possible, but no it can't be done.

deferred_pensioner wrote: »

Alternatively if I got a pay as you go card and left it in the car and forwarded the calls from my contract phone to the pay as you go then cancelled the forward when we weren’t with the car would the pay as you go receive my forwarded calls when we were abroad .

Your pay as you go would receive call choose where you are, so long as you have a signal. If you divert your contract to your PAYG, then you will pay diversion costs. This is usually at the call rate that you would be charged for calling that number, being out of inclusive minutes where applicable.

Orange used to do Everyphone, which would be ideal for this. Sadly, the bean counters and penny pinchers have long since taken over and Everyphone and other services are no more.

If you go abroad, you pay for incoming calls. The incoming rate depends on your provider and tariff. You will also pay diversion costs if you have a divert on.

deferred_pensioner

Thank you , as I thought.
It's going to be an expensive luxury.

redux

Some networks will issue 2 SIMs like this; but I don't know if any in the UK do.

I've forwarded calls to another SIM for a slightly allied reason - use an old car kit for now, rather than spend £200 on a new one.

If you get one of the Isle of Man numbered global SIM cards, these will come out of inclusive minutes on some networks and have no incoming roaming fees in most of Europe.

Alternatively, an O2 payg SIM (or contract, if yours is O2) on My Europe Extra, £10 a month single or renewable fee, then free incoming calls in about 30 European countries.

A decision between IoM and O2 probably depends on how many trips abroad you intend. If just a 2 or 3 week holiday, I'd say O2 with one £10 fee; for several couple of day trips then probably IoM.

For more on roaming, read Martin's article, and the discussion thread. Note the remarks about the 2 prefix codes for IoM SIMs, and which come from which inclusive minutes - but this info not complete yet, I think

When you're out of the car abroad, I would take the roaming SIM out though, and look into other callback services for cheaper outgoing calls

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

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

steviet78

Vodafone offer this service, it is called multi sim

KittyKate

DonnyDave wrote: »

May technically be possible, but no it can't be done.

That's not true. o2 and Vodafone do it, that I know. You just have to make sure to speak to the level above CS so they understand what you are asking for!

DonnyDave

KittyKate wrote: »

That's not true. o2 and Vodafone do it, that I know. You just have to make sure to speak to the level above CS so they understand what you are asking for!

I stand corrected.