Using mobile phone to call abroad

bbanduser

I have been thinking about this for a while, and wanted to know what you guys think about this.

I spend about £40-50 on International calls every month, mainly calling India. The calls are more in the weekends than weekdays though.

So what I was thinking about was whether there was a way of making he same calls from a mobile? I know simply-fone is one way of doing it, but they don't do free calls to India over the weekend, and moreover, it is an unpredictible way of doing it as the networks can pull the plug at any time.

So is there a valid way of making about 400 minutes of calls to India and spend about £40 (possibly by using the free minutes)? If it is possible, then I can get a really good phone (like the XDA IIs for example) and will be in a strong position to negotiate the contract as I will be spending quite a lot overall.

Over to you guys. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

grumbler

bbanduser wrote:

So is there a valid way of making about 400 minutes of calls to India and spend about £40 ...

It looks like I don't understand something...
Calls to India cost just 3p/min from a landline. 3p*400=£12 - much less than £40. See CallChecker in the red-brown bar above.

kai666

My girl friend calls russia from her mobile by using the onetel overide and then routing the call through telediscount, or which ever is cheapest at the time. She uses vodafone stop the clock, so she pays 15p for first 3 mins to vodafone, then the rest of the hour is free, and 1p a min to onetell, so works out at 75p an hour

here is the link about it in detail here

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid1105983163,80958,

bbanduser

grumbler, who provides a call rate of 3p per minute to India???!! The lowest good quality service I have found is 6p per minute. I guess I call more than 400 minutes, but a lot of the time I have to call multiple times which jacks up the prices.

kai666, how do you manage to get 1p per minute calling Russia? I saw something like 20p per minute. Sorry I am a bit of a newbiew in this area. Did you buy the mobile from one.tel?

bbanduser

I got the 'mobile override' option on one.tel, but it does not give the rates for all countries, just a few. Is there any link where I can see all of the call rates using mobile override? And is this the option you use?

pricefighter

bbanduser wrote:

grumbler, who provides a call rate of 3p per minute to India???!! The lowest good quality service I have found is 6p per minute. I guess I call more than 400 minutes, but a lot of the time I have to call multiple times which jacks up the prices.

Dialwise 3p a min.
Abroadtel 4p a min.
Cheapestcalls 5p a min.

All provide access to India via 0844 numbers at lower rates then 6p a min.(But i dont know what the line quality is like)

O2 and O2 online were including calls to 0844 numbers in there inclusive minutes.Your have to check if they still do.If they do a 400 min,or more package on o2 might be the answer.

O2 online are doing a sim card only deal 200 min extra(double mins) 1000 texts for £30 a month at the mo.No min term.So you could try it out for a month,and see how it goes.

bbanduser

Hello pricefighter,
Thanks for the update. I will check out the quality of dialwise, but I found the quality of abroadtel dismal. But if 0844 is included in the minutes of O2, then that's fantastic, as i provides the perfect solution. Any ideas as to how I can check this? What I don't want to do is go on a temporary solution and hen get stuck with a contract. I guess that is why you pointed me to the no-strings-attached sim solution.

If I go for a 30 quid a month deal, I might as well go for a connection which gives me a new phone. Or am I missing something (I mean is the deal you are offering better in some way I didn't notice?)?

knuckledragger

bbanduser,
remember it's the cheapest tariff that you want and not the best phone http://www.e2save.com/mobile/phones/homepage.php?network=O2&PHPSESSID=71da955bb9489bab225e2a76065425da

pricefighter

bbanduser wrote:

If I go for a 30 quid a month deal, I might as well go for a connection which gives me a new phone. Or am I missing something (I mean is the deal you are offering better in some way I didn't notice?)?

I was only suggesting that you used the sim card only deal for a month to see if it did what you want it to.

As knuckle dragger points out there are cheaper suppliers of o2 line rental deals,provided of course 0844 is included there inclusive minutes.

bbanduser

dialwise says the old 'due to capacity problems...' when i try to call the 0844 number for India.

Abroadtel used to be crap as well.

blinker

waste of time trying these really cheap companies to india ESPECIALLY from yer mobile.

the ONLY one which has extremely good quality every time to india [& india mobiles) is simple-phone on 07744973333 BUT all times except the weekend - which is where u started this post!