At the moment i'm on 02 200 contract.  Mum and dad
have a virgin
mobile (UK) but they live in greece.  AIUI I call
them out of my free
minutes and they pay 60p to receive. Or they call
me for 95p/minute.
This is obviously expenensive.  Last call was £20
for 20 minutes.

Any easy ways to bring the cost down? They dont
have the internet or
land line yet and i'm just into a new contract.

may be better for them to bet a 'local' sim of
their phone, if its unlocked.

roy

At the moment i'm on 02 200 contract.  Mum and dad have a virgin
mobile (UK) but they live in greece.  AIUI I call them out of my free
minutes and they pay 60p to receive. Or they call me for 95p/minute.
This is obviously expenensive.  Last call was £20 for 20 minutes.

Any easy ways to bring the cost down? They dont have the internet or
land line yet and i'm just into a new contract.

Either get them on to o2 PAYG with the "My Europe" extra enabled - £10 per
month fee, free incoming, 25p per min. back to UK. see link below for
details.
http://www.o2.co.uk/international/travellingabroad/paygoabroad/myeuropeextra

Or, after August 31st, all operators are having to reduce their roaming
rates at the behest of the EU. Of the operators who have announced (from a
brief check of their web sites, I admit I didn't look that hard) what their
charges will be "3" appear to be the cheapest.
Orange - 38p per min to make a call, 19p per min to receive.
http://www1.orange.co.uk/go/

T-Mobile - 38p per min to make a call 19p per min to receive.
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/uk/euroaming/?WT.mc_id=euroaming

Vodafone - 38p per min to make a call, 19p per min to receive.
http://www.abroad.vodafone.co.uk/index.cfm?do=europricing.test

3 - 25p per min to make a call, 10p per min to receive.
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/help_support_/network_coverage_/going_abroad_/ab
roadineurope.omp

Bear in mind that you would have to buy new handset from 3 (or have an
unlocked dual mode handset already) for the 3 option to be viable. Cheapest
3 PAYG handset on their web site is a Nokia 6151 for 90 quid.

On Jul 30, 1:21 pm, googlegroupsspamfil...@alister.info wrote:

Apart form the options already mentioned, you could send them a
Vodafone UK SIM, registered for Passport

Then when it's registered on the Vodafone Greece network, incoming
calls will cost 75p connection for calls up to an hour, outgoing 75p
plus same as normal tariff (10p/min off-peak)

If you want to chat for longer, you could also get yourself a Voda
PAYT SIM, and sign it up for Stop-the-clock, then up to an hour for
just 3 minutes charge

Also ask if Vodafone Family still applies to your calls when they are
abroad - this would cost you £5 a month, then your calls are free

The Voda UK SIM can be topped up with a Greece Vodafone voucher

Another option would be a global roaming SIM with an IoM or Jersey
number, but the numbers don't necessarily come out of your inclusive
minutes. But for them, used with say JustVoip sms callback, calls to
UK landlines would be 4p/minute, plus sms cost.