ringing a mobile abroad

geoff1_2

Hi guys, hope someone can advise me!
Going through a divorce at moment and my wife is taking the kids away for a week to Tenerife. I want to keep in touch with the kids and my wife has told me to ring her on her mobile (o2).
I have a contract mobile (Tmobile) this has cross net inc calls 100 mins.
Will it be cheaper for me to ring from mobile or landline (NTL)?

Hope someone can help!!

durain

you will be charge for calling a mobile, just the same as you are foning a person's mobile next to you.

if you got spare 100mins from your t-mobile, might as well use that up for x-net calls.

andy88_2

The international element isn't relevant to you; you're just ringing an O2 mobile. It depends if you use more than your included minutes; compare extra minute costs with from BT. Bt will be cheaper off-peak I'd think.

For your wife, the roaming charges will be reduced if she signs up for O2's International Traveller Service - for a month @ £2.99 then remember to cancel it again. If on contract, this cuts outgoing calls from 85p to 58p; incoming from 94p to 28p, so it's worthwhile for more than a few minutes.

Or she could get a Spanish SIM which you could ring for 15p from 1899, and there would be no charge for incoming calls.

geoff1_2

andy88 wrote:

The international element isn't relevant to you; you're just ringing an O2 mobile. It depends if you use more than your included minutes; compare extra minute costs with from BT. Bt will be cheaper off-peak I'd think.

For your wife, the roaming charges will be reduced if she signs up for O2's International Traveller Service - for a month @ £2.99 then remember to cancel it again. If on contract, this cuts outgoing calls from 85p to 58p; incoming from 94p to 28p, so it's worthwhile for more than a few minutes.

Or she could get a Spanish SIM which you could ring for 15p from 1899, and there would be no charge for incoming calls.

Thanks Andy
so if i ring her from my mobile to her mobile it doesn't matter that she's abroad is that right? If i am running short on my inc mins could i ring Tmobile to increase for that month?

andy88_2

Yes. You could go to a higher tariff for a month; usually you need to do this in advance of the billing period, so if they're going soon ...

Or ring from home - about 12p weekdays , 3.6p weekends from BT or via 1899 10p and 2p per minute

and don't forget to tell her about the ITS.