Best option for calling UK landline/mobile from an Australian mobile?

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Sebastian Kinnaird - 13 Feb 2004 10:38 GMT

Hello,

I'm in the UK at the moment, but am planning a trip to Australia staying for
approx. 12mths. What's the cheapest way for me to call UK numbers using a
mobile whilst I'm over there? I'm imagining something like an Australian
SIM for my phone (it'll either be a tri-band Ericsson R520m or an NEC e606
on 3) in combination with a discount international calling card.

It will probably be fairly low usage, a mixture of UK and local calls.
Something flexible allowing me to upgrade the mobile tariff if needed would
be useful.

Any suggestions as to what SIM / calling card to use would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Seb

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John Phillips - 13 Feb 2004 15:13 GMT

> I'm imagining something like an Australian
> SIM for my phone (it'll either be a tri-band Ericsson R520m or an NEC e606
> on 3) in combination with a discount international calling card.

One thing for sure - keep off "3" here. Shitty coverage, bad vibes all
round.

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Frank - 13 Feb 2004 20:56 GMT

> Hello,
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> Thanks in advance,
> Seb

I don't see the point in using a calling card with a mobile phone. It is
often cheaper to call countries such as the UK & USA directly from the
mobile rather than going through the calling card access number. The
cheapest way to use a calling card would be from a landline phone.
For example, a typical national ( including calling card access numbers)
mobile call made from a prepaid phone will cost from 49c pm to around 80c pm
, where as a direct call to the UK would cost only 35-40c pm.
Frank

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Kurt - 14 Feb 2004 04:13 GMT

> > Hello,
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> , where as a direct call to the UK would cost only 35-40c pm.
> Frank

You cant get mobile calls to even a local phone for less than 30 cents a
minute.

but you can get calling cards for landlines that normally give you calls to
UK for 4 cents a minute at peak times !

eg
http://www.ozprepaidcards.com.au/cardDetail.asp?PhoneID=13&to_country=UK

use www.ozprepaidcards.com.au to find the most suitable card for you.

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thegoons - 14 Feb 2004 23:15 GMT

Daybreak calling card. Best called from a landline. Dial a local access
number (payphone is 40 cents) then there is no connection fee charged by the
card company, just 1/2 cent per minute to UK landlines and 27.9 cents per
minute to UK mobiles.

http://www.cardcall.com.au

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> use www.ozprepaidcards.com.au to find the most suitable card for you.

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John Savage - 26 Feb 2004 23:58 GMT

>Daybreak calling card. Best called from a landline. Dial a local access
>number (payphone is 40 cents) then there is no connection fee charged by the
>card company, just 1/2 cent per minute to UK landlines and 27.9 cents per
>minute to UK mobiles.
>
>http://www.cardcall.com.au

Hmmm, that site isn't very amenable to browsing with Lynx--the Daybreak list
of countries is visible but not their per minute price. Yet on another page
at that same site I can see that the GoTalk card is 0.8c/min to the UK.
Anyway, 1/2 cent per min to UK sounds okay.

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Fred - 06 Mar 2004 07:22 GMT

> > > Hello,
> > >
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> use www.ozprepaidcards.com.au to find the most suitable card for you.

Also the price list there has to carefully interpreteded.

The price in the peak times may be ADDITIONAL to the off peak price.

I got stung a little bit with "Y CALL" prices (for a different country, not
UK!, where the right column wasnt labelled as being additional to the off
peak time.. )

Well it turned out that there was a better price on another card ,but that
had three rates for off peak, medium load and peak times.

Their price for peak times was the same so there was no better deal, but we
sometimes might make a call at the medium load price which was a better
deal.

As the same company provided the ycall and the other card, the rates were
the same - but the ycall card card had peak time rates covering the medium
load time. So it gets very confusing...

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