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Calling UK form Orange mobile phone
Hi,
I will be visiting Clearwater Fl for a week later this month. I will take my tri-band mobile phone with me but the charges with Orange are £1.10 per minute to call the UK. I've heard of using Access Codes to reduce costs but when I looked these up on the internet they seem to apply to phone calls made FROM the UK. Dial Arounds look like an option, but I'm not sure if they only apply to telephones originating in the USA. I'm not keen on purchasing a Calling Card because I would have to have some kind of contract and pay a US company - it all gets very complicated. PLEASE can anyone tell me how I can call home without paying quite so much? Thank you Kath |
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Kath wrote:
Hi, I will be visiting Clearwater Fl for a week later this month. I will take my tri-band mobile phone with me but the charges with Orange are £1.10 per minute to call the UK. I've heard of using Access Codes to reduce costs but when I looked these up on the internet they seem to apply to phone calls made FROM the UK. Dial Arounds look like an option, but I'm not sure if they only apply to telephones originating in the USA. I'm not keen on purchasing a Calling Card because I would have to have some kind of contract and pay a US company - it all gets very complicated. PLEASE can anyone tell me how I can call home without paying quite so much? Thank you Kath What did we do before mobile phones? Well I believe we went on holiday and sent postcards. Do you really need to call home ?? If so why not make a quick call fro a public phone. I travel for several weeks at a time, when I know or if I know where I am staying I will send an email leaving forward contact numbers. I can honestly say in all my years of travel, that I've never been needed!!! Jan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 02/01/04 |
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"Jan" wrote in message ...
Kath wrote: Hi, I will be visiting Clearwater Fl for a week later this month. I will take my tri-band mobile phone with me but the charges with Orange are £1.10 per minute to call the UK. I've heard of using Access Codes to reduce costs but when I looked these up on the internet they seem to apply to phone calls made FROM the UK. Dial Arounds look like an option, but I'm not sure if they only apply to telephones originating in the USA. I'm not keen on purchasing a Calling Card because I would have to have some kind of contract and pay a US company - it all gets very complicated. PLEASE can anyone tell me how I can call home without paying quite so much? Thank you Kath What did we do before mobile phones? Well I believe we went on holiday and sent postcards. Do you really need to call home ?? If so why not make a quick call fro a public phone. I travel for several weeks at a time, when I know or if I know where I am staying I will send an email leaving forward contact numbers. I can honestly say in all my years of travel, that I've never been needed!!! Jan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 02/01/04 Thank you Jan, I agree that we used different methods, or none at all before. However, and sadly, I need to keep in touch with relatives who are not in the best of health. The only alternative to this is not to travel at all. I have a 'once in a lifetime' chance to see a part of the world I never thought I would and I simply don't want to have a financial penalty for doing so. I appreciate your response and hope you continue to enjoy trouble-free travel for many years to come. Best wishes Kath |
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Kath wrote:
Kath wrote: Hi, I will be visiting Clearwater Fl for a week later this month. I will take my tri-band mobile phone with me but the charges with Orange are £1.10 per minute to call the UK. I've heard of using Access Codes to reduce costs but when I looked these up on the internet they seem to apply to phone calls made FROM the UK. Dial Arounds look like an option, but I'm not sure if they only apply to telephones originating in the USA. I'm not keen on purchasing a Calling Card because I would have to have some kind of contract and pay a US company - it all gets very complicated. I think you may be reading the wrong thing about the phone cards. They're widely available and I find them the most inexpensive way to make international calls from the US. (Make sure you get an international card!) I've not yet had one required any kind of contract - buying the card _is_ the contract, and the access number and account number are contained in it. As long as you're calling a landline in UK...calls to mobiles in the UK are devilishly expensive, no matter what means you use. |
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Thank you Jan, I agree that we used different methods, or none at all before. However, and sadly, I need to keep in touch with relatives who are not in the best of health. The only alternative to this is not to travel at all. I have a 'once in a lifetime' chance to see a part of the world I never thought I would and I simply don't want to have a financial penalty for doing so. I appreciate your response and hope you continue to enjoy trouble-free travel for many years to come. Best wishes Kath I'm sorry to hear of your problems and hope you enjoy your holiday. I'm sure it will be reassuring to your relatives to know that they can contact you should the need arise. So many people nowadays take mobile phones on holiday with them just to make those irritating "I'm on the bus" type calls. Jan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.558 / Virus Database: 350 - Release Date: 02/01/04 |
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Quite agree buy a phone card -they're cheap and widely available in all stores and easy to use take a look at this site for buyng a phone over there http://www.tracfone-orders.com/direc...st.jsp?tech=TO
trac phones are great you buy them and use them like a pay as you go then if you go back again or have a friend going they can take the phone buy another card -simple . you don't keep the same number but as you aregenerally only phonng one way that really doesn't matter does it . |
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