bbb_uk wrote on Feb 27
th, 2007 at 9:27pm:
In all fairness to Vodafone, I believe its probably the same across the board of mobile network providers.
The cheapest method by far would be to get a sim card from a network that operates in the country you're visiting then I assume? This and telling people not to ring you whilst you're abroad and you'll ring them instead is the better solution?
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To be fair to NGM, I think you guys are leaping a bit too far to say I might be right, as it seems impossible to be sure - that was my starting suggestion, but having spoken to Vodafone at length, the strongest possibility is that that is indeed the ludicrous way they charge these calls
But in fairness to the other providers, only Vodafone does this.
I know for absolute fact that O2 and Orange have charged the same for calls to landlines, mobiles, and NGNs, as I already said, and I am pretty sure that T-mobile will do likewise.
I would take 3 as a special case as where it has free roaming, call packages may be used which never included NGNs anyway, outside inclusive packages, calls are 25p, and I would expect that for 0870 as well.
As for what are the cheapest options .... in some countries, there are SIM cards with excellent rates for international calls, such as Blauworld in Germany, Lebara in a few countries. I don't know their tariffs for UK NGNs though, but my guess would be the same as UK mobiles.
Other places, you'd use a SIM with cheap local calls together with a calling card. But most of all, look into callback options whether with global roaming or local SIMs, or with any new free roaming options that turn up, like O2 My Europe Extra
By the way, Vodafone has Passport partners now in all EU countries as well as the other foreign Vodafone networks, perhaps the most surprising being T-mobile Slovakia, which should be the clue that all the networks can and should cut roaming charges, as shown by 3 and O2 moves already this year.
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