Great Cheap Local Sim Card Hunt

Geoffrey_Coan

sandraa wrote:

if you are going to France the best deal is to get a virgin pay as go go french sim, as soon as you arrive. It is 15 euros and include 5euros worth of free calls.

I didn't know that Virgin offered a PAYG service in France. What is it branded as and do you know what network service it uses underneath (Orange, SFR or Bougetel) ? I bought an Orange PAYG card in France (as they were cheapest UK call rates) but found that the Orange signal was almost non-existent. There's a great SFR signal strength so hoping that Virgin use them.

Cheers, Geoffrey

JPR

I think she probably means virgin as in brand new rather than the network.

MissBehaving

Crikey, am I confuddled now or what!

OH and I are off on holiday at the beginning of September. Going to the Caribbean on a cruise. Leaving DD with Granny!! :j

Anyways.... I am VERY aware not to phone whilst on the ship, so have been doing some research on the likes of 0044 etc.
Can someone help me with this ... If my mum is phoning me from a landline to my mobile (and I have 0044), will she be charged the earth?

We use Talk Talk for our local calls, so she is no longer signed up with any 'cheaper' option.

Want to speak to my daughter every day... so would really be chuffed if someone could give me really sound advice!

Donnie

No, it's you who will be stung. Your Gran will only pay the normal cost of a call to a UK mobile. The cost of the call from the UK to where ever you are will be paid by yourself.
Read the thread for alternatives.
Might be a little difficult to purchase a local SIM able to cover your cruise region.

hurrah

MissBehaving wrote:

Crikey, am I confuddled now or what!

OH and I are off on holiday at the beginning of September. Going to the Caribbean on a cruise. Leaving DD with Granny!! :j

Anyways.... I am VERY aware not to phone whilst on the ship, so have been doing some research on the likes of 0044 etc.
Can someone help me with this ... If my mum is phoning me from a landline to my mobile (and I have 0044), will she be charged the earth?

We use Talk Talk for our local calls, so she is no longer signed up with any 'cheaper' option.

Want to speak to my daughter every day... so would really be chuffed if someone could give me really sound advice!

I presume you are talking about a 0044 Global Sim . Go to their website
http://www.0044.co.uk/global-sim-card.htm# and click on "A UK Phone Number" and it it tells you the cost of calling it from a BT Landline.

Has she moved her line rental to Talk Talk or just her calls?

MissBehaving

hurrah wrote:

Has she moved her line rental to Talk Talk or just her calls?

We are both on Talk Talk for alls, but on BT for line rental.

MissBehaving

Just been on the 0044 website and looked up the cost!


Our Global SIM has a UK (Isle of Man) mobile phone number. Therefore from a BT landline it only costs 12.6p/min (peak) and 11.8p/min (off-peak) to call the SIM wherever it is in the world!

Thanks so much!

redux

MissBehaving wrote:

Just been on the 0044 website and looked up the cost!


Our Global SIM has a UK (Isle of Man) mobile phone number. Therefore from a BT landline it only costs 12.6p/min (peak) and 11.8p/min (off-peak) to call the SIM wherever it is in the world!

Thanks so much!

But use cheap calls providers listed in the MSE Callchecker; you won't find Isle of Man mobile listed, but they seem to mostly count it as a UK one anyway. 0844 callthrough numbers are from 4p a minute at the moment, or if she has a Call18185 account, then 2p/min at weekends.

brigittejohn

Hello everyone,

I think this site should include a thread where people can resell their local SIMs when they return from holiday and buy one for their forthcoming holidays.

Listed in alphabetical order by country preferably! (as it is quite difficult on this thread to find information on the country one is looking for, have to go through the whole thing)

Any views?

Brigitte

payless

I think this site should include a thread where people can resell their local SIMs when they return from holiday and buy one for their forthcoming holidays.

ML does not want things sold via this site.... so suppose ebay would be useful....
or a statement like ... Just come back from XxxxxX used a local sim, it worked find, however still got £x credit left on it and not planning to use again ..... might get a few PMs

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