Lebara international calls

amarshe

Do beware of this-I tried to call the Swedish government passport office (Polisen) today but the call wouldn't go through.  I called Lebara who said I can only call personal numbers not business numbers, but the only way to make the call would be to get a PAYG simcard!

I put some credit on Skype where it was 3.7p a minute.  But why couldn't Lebara have let me do that?  Quite an inconvenience!

d123

I think there’s a slight case of misunderstanding here, it won’t be business numbers not included, but more likely non-geographic numbers (like 0845 in the UK). The Polisen numbers in Sweden are 077 which is indeed a non-geographic code.

I tried a random business number in Stockholm (on a normal 08 code) and it rang fine.

Try it

dc_scotland

This subject of Lebara CS telling customers that business numbers are not allowed has cropped up before:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80684355

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6277595

amarshe

d123 said:

I think there’s a slight case of misunderstanding here, it won’t be business numbers not included, but more likely non-geographic numbers (like 0845 in the UK). The Polisen numbers in Sweden are 077 which is indeed a non-geographic code.

I tried a random business number in Stockholm (on a normal 08 code) and it rang fine.

Try it

Yeah it is more that Lebara fobbed me off with a vague excuse. I’d be happy to pay for the call outside of included minutes but Lebara said to get a payg sim.  Just very inconvenient !

PHK

And the police number is a short code rather than actual number.