Best way to keep in touch with USA?

spannerzone

onejontwo wrote: »

Thanks for all the helpful replies, so I took your advice and purchased a £10 top-up on the Three network and I tried it while I was abroad in the Republic of Ireland on the "Feel at home" package. It worked a treat and saved me some money. Now as you've mentioned the USA would work on the same package and save me even more money to contact the UK, but the question I now have is that if I was to have a week abroad in a" Feel at home" destination ie. Spain, the price plan doesn't apply and the costs are 15.6p per minute. So once again would anybody know of a decent package for phoning abroad whilst abroad so to speak?

Spain is a feel at home location - you need to top up and buy another 30day add on to get the feel at home deal (I'm assuming your original 30 day add on has now expired and you've reverted to being on the pay as you go tariff)

onejontwo

spannerzone wrote: »

Spain is a feel at home location - you need to top up and buy another 30day add on to get the feel at home deal (I'm assuming your original 30 day add on has now expired and you've reverted to being on the pay as you go tariff)

I think I've confused you here, my 30 day deal is still active it's just the fact that the package would be for phone calls from the USA to Spain rather than from the USA to the UK which is what the package is based on.

grumbler

onejontwo wrote: »

I think I've confused you here, my 30 day deal is still active it's just the fact that the package would be for phone calls from the USA to Spain rather than from the USA to the UK which is what the package is based on.

I think you keep confusing everyone. What "USA to Spain" if you were "to have a week abroad in ... Spain"?

The 'package' works in all 'feel at home' countries for making calls to UK and receiving all calls.

If you want to call to other countries, you can use UK geographical access numbers ( http://callchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/intcallchecker/ ) or, possibly, Three's shortcodes. Possibly - because I am not sure that the shortcodes work abroad.

onejontwo

Forgive me for sounding thick, but just to reiterate when A (my daughter) goes to the USA for two months she can use a three card "feel at home" bundle to keep in touch with B (me) in the UK without incurring any extra charges above those included in the £10 £15 or £25 bundle if she's careful.
Now during this two month period I'm planning to have one week in Spain, so as far as I can work out the above £10 £15 or£25 "feel at home" bundles are from calls and texts from a "feel at home " destination TO THE UK. and not from say the USA to Spain. So I would therefore need some other kind of package.
Please correct me if I've interpreted this wrongly.

gfplux

Skype,
Watsapp
Viber

The above are free for.....you using your data plan and or your home wifi
.....your daughter if she uses free wifi in the USA.

grumbler

onejontwo wrote: »

Forgive me for sounding thick, but just to reiterate when A (my daughter) goes to the USA for two months she can use a three card "feel at home" bundle to keep in touch with B (me) in the UK without incurring any extra charges above those included in the £10 £15 or £25 bundle if she's careful.
Now during this two month period I'm planning to have one week in Spain, so as far as I can work out the above £10 £15 or£25 "feel at home" bundles are from calls and texts from a "feel at home " destination TO THE UK. and not from say the USA to Spain. So I would therefore need some other kind of package.
Please correct me if I've interpreted this wrongly.

What sim are you going to use in Spain? If it's a UK sim, then your daughter is calling 'to UK', not to Spain, that is covered by her bundle. You will pay the roaming charge for incoming calls (free with a Three sim even without a bundle). If you get a Three sim with a bundle, then you similarly can call your daughter to USA.

redux

grumbler is right for what I think you are saying. Maybe you overthought this.

If you both have Three and are each in a Like Home country, even if different countries, just call each other on the number on the Three SIM, and these are counted as UK bound calls in the bundle, wherever the other phone is.

onejontwo

redux wrote: »

grumbler is right for what I think you are saying. Maybe you overthought this.

If you both have Three and are each in a Like Home country, even if different countries, just call each other on the number on the Three SIM, and these are counted as UK bound calls in the bundle, wherever the other phone is.

Maybe I am over thinking this. So you're saying that if we both bought a three sim on a "feel at home " bundle for say £15 each in the UK, we could call each other from say Spain to the USA without any extra charges? As far as I was aware one of the calls had to be to the UK.

grumbler

'Free' calls can be to UK numbers included into the bundle. For the caller it doesn't matter whether UK phones he calls to are in UK or abroad.

chrismad4rit

hi. can someone clarify is the person who is in uk can use their inclusive minutes, whatever network they are on, to ring a "feel at home" number???