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"Ian" wrote in message
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In message , Steve Terry
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"Ian" wrote in message
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When I visited Australia late last year, I put a telstra mobile SIM in
my
UK mobile and used an Australian skype call through number to regularly
call back to the UK. The Australia part of the call came out of the
inclusive telstra minutes and the Skype part out of the monthly
subscription (which could have been PAYG if I'd have so chosen). The
call
quality was excellent. I also have the Fring skype client on the mobile
&
could have used that instead but the call quality was awful..

Being "belt-and-braces", I also had a UK VF SIM with VF passport (75p
connection charge) as backup but did not use it. Since the demise of
3-like-home, the roaming costs of calling back to the UK using any UK
operator other than VF are very expensive.
Best Regards...
Ian

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But you could buy a 3 Oz Skype PAYG and Skype back to the UK
http://www.three.com.au/

I do not agree. There was a very good reason for me using a telstra SIM.
The coverage is far, far superior to 3 which is not very good. I know
because I have been there before with a 3 SIM, both UK contract (the
erstwhile 3-like-home service) and a local 3 SIM.


The criteria was cheapest calls Oz to UK
Nothing cheaper than free

Afterwards you could bring the phone back and unlock it

Except it's not a lot of good being free if it doesn't work reliably is
it?
And I did try skype on 3 when down under.

Ian
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"Ian" wrote in message
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When I visited Australia late last year, I put a telstra mobile SIM in my
UK mobile and used an Australian skype call through number to regularly
call back to the UK. The Australia part of the call came out of the
inclusive telstra minutes and the Skype part out of the monthly
subscription (which could have been PAYG if I'd have so chosen). The call
quality was excellent. I also have the Fring skype client on the mobile &
could have used that instead but the call quality was awful..

I didn't need to do it in the end. Turns out the place I'm staying as
broadband so I'm just skyping back to the UK. At 14p/min it's dear for
mobiles but all landline calls are in my Skype unlimited package as long as
I use VPN to give myself a UK IP.

In message , Mr X
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"Ian" wrote in message
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When I visited Australia late last year, I put a telstra mobile SIM in my
UK mobile and used an Australian skype call through number to regularly
call back to the UK. The Australia part of the call came out of the
inclusive telstra minutes and the Skype part out of the monthly
subscription (which could have been PAYG if I'd have so chosen). The call
quality was excellent. I also have the Fring skype client on the mobile &
could have used that instead but the call quality was awful..

I didn't need to do it in the end. Turns out the place I'm staying as
broadband so I'm just skyping back to the UK. At 14p/min it's dear for
mobiles but all landline calls are in my Skype unlimited package as long as
I use VPN to give myself a UK IP.
Now that's interesting. For part of our trip down under, we stayed with
our Aussie friends who have broadband so I just used skype on my laptop
to call back home when staying with them. I did upgrade to skype
worldwide for the duration of the trip so that's probably why it worked
(i.e. using an AU IP) without affecting the skype payg credit.. (as a
backup to that I have SIP VOIP as well but other than testing it just
see if it would work OK while out there, I didn't use it)

Best Regards...
Ian
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Ian King, wolvertonrail.co.uk, transport video suppliers since 1987.
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