Mobile calls to Sweden. Pay as you go.

Joan49

I'm trying to find out the cheapest way to make and recieve calls to and from sweden using a pay as you go phone. It is the only option we have as our elderly friend has moved into a carehome.

d123

From the UK, any of the cheap international MVNOs, for example White Mobile is 4p to Swedish landline, 15p to mobile.

Surely the Swedish resident isn't going to use a UK sim? They would need to check for rates with the Swedish networks, if you did want to use a UK sim, expect around 28p per minute for roaming calls back to the UK.

Herongull

If you both have smartphones and access to WiFi (or included data in contracts), you can make calls for free using Viber.

Neil49

I use an O2 International sim for making overseas calls. It's payg and I generally top up £10 at a time via an atm.

Although it's not the cheapest rate around it's the overall convenience that suits me as I just use it in an old mobile and can make calls wherever I am

For Sweden, call to landlines are 4p per minute and 8p to mobiles. There are no connection charges. Text messages are 10p

http://www.o2.co.uk/international/intsim

criboo

I used to use an app from my smartphone called MobileVOIP and that uses my internet connection to a mobile or landline number and I remember it being cheap

Therws lots of companies offering the connection, so check to find cheapest to Sweden, should not be more than 6p/min I'd imagine

OldGreyFox

If you have inclusive landline minutes, and your calling a swedish landline these people offer at no charge a geographical access number which is included in your inclusive minutes.

www.callsdiscount.com

redux

If you get yourself and your friend a SIM each from Toggle Mobile, and the one in Sweden is signed up for a Swedish ID and number as well as the UK one that comes with it, you can call each other for 3 pence a minute, incoming calls free.

The Swedish number can be added for 30 days free of charge, then another one added when that expires, but I'd suggest pay the optional £5 a year fee to have one permanently allocated.

If the home can let residents receive calls on a landline number, it might be possible to find 1 or 2 pence a minute rates to a Swedish landline, but I haven't looked yet. I checked O2 International and O2 Calling Card and was slightly disappointed. There ought to be better somewhere, but maybe 3p will be a baseline without more complicated arrangements like using more than one provider.

grumbler

For calling the same landline numbers (up to 3) O2 International Favourites is a very good option. You get 3000 minutes for £10 and a local Swedish 'Call Me' number for your Swedish friends to call you cheaply.

Joan49

Thank you for all your help.