whats the cheapest way to call a mobile in Swaziland

mediaman

My daughter is in swaziland(for next 2 months) with an O2 pay and go mobile. Whats the cheapest way to phone her.

andy88_2

It will cost you the same to call O2 as normal. But it will cost her 99p/min to call UK and £1.49 to receive calls.
http://www.o2.co.uk/personal/abroad/prices/paygo/callingwhileabroad/0,,133,00.html

I must very strongly recommend she enquires about a local SIM card. There seems to be only the Swazi MTN network (MTN is in several African countries).
http://www.mtn.co.sz/

If you press services, then pay as you go, there is more information. The exchange rate seems to be about 12 E to the £, so calls to UK around 20p + SPTC charge which is about 30p ie 50p total

You could call a Swazi mobile using cheap calls providers from 5p/min, and if your daughter were to sign up the Swazi number with a callback service, she could make calls to UK for about 11p to 15p/min.

If you have a contract mobile with O2 or T-mobile and have spare inclusive minutes, you could use the service of Simply-Fone to call from those minutes.

monomer

Plus make sure her phone is unlocked.

blinker

from https://www.simply-fone.com

you can call

Destinations available
24 hours - 7 days

SWAZILAND
SWAZILAND MOBILE


from your mobile simply dial:

07744 97 3333


At the prompt, dial your International destination number - followed by # only (do NOT press 'call' after your destination number).

andy88_2

Thank you blinker, but I think I already mentioned it 2 days ago, for use from O2 and T-mobile

mediaman

Thanks

My daughter is currently in South Africa and hasn't reached swaziland yet.
We have recieved several txt messages , however she has not got our txt messages or calls. any thoughts what the problem might be.

andy88_2

don't know; some countries text messages don't seem to be forwarded by or compatible with some networks. I've heard this about New Zealand, but I don't know if that happens for South Africa as well.

One thing I did hear about NZ was peculiar; that incoming messages can be replied to within a time period, but outgoing ones cannot be initiated; that seems unlikely to apply to this case, as that would be your end.

You mean you haven't even managed to ring the phone? Has she got a South African SIM in there by any chance, and you haven't realised? Maybe check the number the messages you received are from.