Mobile Roaming: Cheapest Calls When You're Abroad

NFH

Stephen7372 wrote: »

I would suggest using a Sainsburys Mobile sim and voipclient app. Calls should be no more than 10p per min and sms 2p

You have to be joking! Sainsbury's Mobile charges a whopping £7,500 per gigabyte outside the EEA, for example in South Africa. You need data to use a VOIP app.

Stephen7372

NFH wrote: »

You have to be joking! Sainsbury's Mobile charges a whopping £7,500 per gigabyte outside the EEA, for example in South Africa. You need data to use a VOIP app.

It only uses about 3 kilobytes per calls so doesn't cost much.

It works as an operator it phones your phone then the phone you want to call.

jaynemaria

phew some scary charges on the links !!! not sure what to do now :-/

grumbler

I don't see anything 'scary' for pure calls without mobile data.

NFH

Stephen7372 wrote: »

It only uses about 3 kilobytes per calls so doesn't cost much.

You've forgotten the fact that, as soon as you connect a smartphone to mobile data that has been deprived of an internet connection, all kinds of processes will connect and consume a lot more than 3KB.

Stephen7372

NFH wrote: »

You've forgotten the fact that, as soon as you connect a smartphone to mobile data that has been deprived of an internet connection, all kinds of processes will connect and consume a lot more than 3KB.

You don't have to use a smart phone. Any phone that will run java apps will work. I used one in Portugal recently I made a phone call with the java app and it used 3kb of data costing me 1p, the call cost via dialnow was 10p for a few minutes. I think 1p was the minimum charge for data, I believe it would cost 3p at £7.50 per mb.

NFH

Actually I've just seen that Sainsbury's Mobile has some low prices for incoming calls in many countries, including for free in a handful of places such as the Channel Islands, United Arab Emirates and Andorra. It's odd given that the UAE has high termination rates for calls to its landlines and mobiles, and Sainsbury's Mobile's free incoming countries don't correlate with Toggle's free incoming countries.

seaviewing

It *has* to be a mistake surely, incoming call charges in Thailand 7ppm (vodafone 75ppm)?

Good spot here, well done!

Stephen7372

Here's a couple of entries on my bill

19 May 2014 22:38:03 Calls Made Abroad Incoming call 3 mins 9 sec £0.19
19 May 2014 22:37:49 Mobile Internet Browsing Data 3 £0.01

dial now bill

19-May-2014 23:37:51 Mobile call +44781293XXX +447787500XXX 00:02:57 € 0.092

There's €0.05 connection charge

redux

NFH wrote: »

Actually I've just seen that Sainsbury's Mobile has some low prices for incoming calls in many countries, including for free in a handful of places such as the Channel Islands, United Arab Emirates and Andorra. It's odd given that the UAE has high termination rates for calls to its landlines and mobiles, and Sainsbury's Mobile's free incoming countries don't correlate with Toggle's free incoming countries.

It is fairly tempting to assume they have some mistakes in there.

I'm not about to book a trip to Brazil to test it though.