My daughters partner has joined the Asian Golf Tour and his first T Mobile bill back from the Phillipines was just over £400. He wasn't on the phone that long. Can anyone advise on an alternative that would work in various countries ie Malaysia Thailand China Phillipines etc, to enable him to call the UK. He carries a lap top.

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Does he have rocks in his head? Is there ANYONE in the world who doesn't now realise that mobile companies are the modern equivalent of pirates dressed in suits?

They charge you an arm and a leg for a call within country. You KNOW they will devour your whole soul for a roaming call overseas.......

Use ONLY in the most dire emergency...or face the consequences - like four hundred quid!   

Two options here,    Buy sim cards or each country,  or buy a global sim card.

In Thailand you can buy a sim card for the True Network from any seven eleven store for only 150bht,  the minimum top up is 100bht and calls to the UK are about 5p per minute when using a cheap access number.  You can also phone this number for only 1p a minute from any BT phone in the UK by dialing a cheap access number,  an example is http://www.telesavers.co.uk/       ...   You will need a passport or ID when buying a sim card in Thailand, due to the amount of bombs going off in the south triggered by mobile phones, the government has made it compulsory to buy with ID and register the card (takes about 2 minutes to register, and the card will be working within the minutes.  True gave me the best coverage when I was in Thailand last year, but things might have changed since then.

In China,  China Mobile is said to be best for coverage all over China. The sim cards can be bought from almost any local store or one of the numerous accessory shops you find all over china.  just ask for "Sim Ka", again calling china is only 1p per minute from any UK landline (Cheaper to phone a chinese mobile than a UK one!!!)

Philippines, Same again, sim card for about £2-£3,, calls a bit more expensive about 6p per minute. 
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The other option and the easiest one is to Buy a global sim card for the phone,  look at http://www.0044.co.uk/global-sim-card.htm ; for an example.  Calls are about 20p per minute to the UK from anywhere in Asia.