Calling the USA from Orange PAYG

cafenervosa_2

Hello i'm looking into calling the USA from my mobile phone here in the UK. I am on the Pay As you go tarrif with Orange. I did a spot of research on the Orange website and it says this will cost 20p per minute, can that really be right, thats cheap!

This is the link that I found the info on, I hope the link works for you.

http://www.orange.co.uk/cgi-bin/international/country.pl?navSel=2&zone=nam&sp=payg%3Apayg&tariff=pgt&country=241

I was just looking on the BT website and they charge a whopping 10p for every 6 seconds to the USA from a public payphone.

So can anyone confirm that this orange deal is correct, or you may even know a cheaper option. Keep in mine that I am only on PAYG and don't pay any monthly charges with Orange what so ever.

Edinburghlass_2

Well i am going to ask the obvious, can you not get access to a landline?

cafenervosa_2

Edinburghlass wrote:

Well i am going to ask the obvious, can you not get access to a landline?

I got rid of my landline due to the increasing charge of the line rental with BT. I only use a mobile now.

I could get access to a landline but it would not be in my own home or not the right time for me to make the call.

Edinburghlass_2

fair enough but if you could use someone's landline you could set up an account with 1899, in fact you can use 1899 and 18866 from a mobile, have you checked them?

cafenervosa_2

Edinburghlass wrote:

fair enough but if you could use someone's landline you could set up an account with 1899, in fact you can use 1899 and 18866 from a mobile, have you checked them?

No how do they work ?

Edinburghlass_2

You need to dial a number before the USA number and it depends on how much Orange will charge you for that part of the call, have a look here.

If a friend would allow you to register their landline number and only you used the pre-fix of 1899, you would get the bill for those calls.

cafenervosa_2

Edinburghlass wrote:

You need to dial a number before the USA number and it depends on how much Orange will charge you for that part of the call, have a look here.

If a friend would allow you to register their landline number and only you used the pre-fix of 1899, you would get the bill for those calls.

Thats guy, I for sure will check it out.

Beano

cafenervosa wrote:

So can anyone confirm that this orange deal is correct, or you may even know a cheaper option. Keep in mine that I am only on PAYG and don't pay any monthly charges with Orange what so ever.

You could try using predial's orange access number to call the states:
0797 682 7878
http://www.pre-dial.com/

Only worth using if you're on the "talk and save" or "choose your own off peak" plans

cafenervosa_2

Thanks for all the advice guys, although it is a little confusing to me.

Just one question that I have is if I call USA from my orange phone (PAYG) do I just dial the number straight eg. 1-222 333 3434 & that will work at 20p a min when it connects. Someone before spoke about callling some sort of access number first and then call the USA number. Is there any surcharges for being connected to abroad ?

cafenervosa_2

I see there will be a connections charge with orange for dialing the country code. Anyone know how much this is with orange ?

carmenes82

20p/min to the USA is ok, but it may well be cheaper to use a cheap calls provider instead. I've got a PAYG on 02 and have been using DialAbroad (https://www.dialabroad.co.uk/mobile) for a while now. Calls to the USA at 1p/min plus a 10p connection charge plus the cost of calling an 0207 number. On 02 PAYG my off-peak calls to 0207 were 2p/min so my total call cost was 3p/min plus the connection charge. Pretty good from a mobile...

Hope that helps.

Car.