What's the cheapest way to do this? Vodafone charges 75p connection, but
won't apply Vodafone family.

Mr X wrote:

What's the cheapest way to do this? Vodafone charges 75p connection, but
won't apply Vodafone family.

Assuming you mean Australia, are you talking about a roaming UK mobile
in Australia calling a UK mobile back in the UK, or what?

I'd have thought that an Australian fixed line or prepay would be a lot
cheaper than a roamed handset for making outgoing calls.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

"Denis McMahon" wrote in message
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Mr X wrote:

What's the cheapest way to do this? Vodafone charges 75p connection, but
won't apply Vodafone family.

Assuming you mean Australia, are you talking about a roaming UK mobile
in Australia calling a UK mobile back in the UK, or what?

I'd have thought that an Australian fixed line or prepay would be a lot
cheaper than a roamed handset for making outgoing calls.

I'll only be there for a month, so I doubt a fixedline would be an option.
I'll look at Australain PAYG. Of course if I can get an ADSL connection
I'll simply Skype to Skype.

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:44:17 +0000, Denis McMahon wrote:

Mr X wrote:

What's the cheapest way to do this? Vodafone charges 75p connection,
but won't apply Vodafone family.

Assuming you mean Australia, are you talking about a roaming UK mobile
in Australia calling a UK mobile back in the UK, or what?

I'd have thought that an Australian fixed line or prepay would be a lot
cheaper than a roamed handset for making outgoing calls.

Rgds

Denis McMahon
Open an account with one of the Betamax voip companies.
Use the access code from Australia.
Cost should be about 5p/min (it might say Euro5c but when you have added
the handling charge and VAT the non-VAT euro cents are about equivalent
to pence).
Choose your Betamax company he-
http://backsla.sh/betamax
Check on their front page (before paying up) for access numbers.

If you want to use a mobile then get a SIM at a local shop. Telstra has
best coverage. It is smoke and mirrors, like BT, but you can get some
reasonable top-up deals. Also take a look at Virgin (OPTUS Network).





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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


In message , Denis McMahon
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Mr X wrote:

What's the cheapest way to do this? Vodafone charges 75p connection, but
won't apply Vodafone family.

Assuming you mean Australia, are you talking about a roaming UK mobile
in Australia calling a UK mobile back in the UK, or what?

I'd have thought that an Australian fixed line or prepay would be a lot
cheaper than a roamed handset for making outgoing calls.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

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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/

Cheapest seems to be
SE G502 A$99
INQ Mini 3G A$129

Steve Terry
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Steve Terry wrote:


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


Will a Aussie PAYG SIM on 3 work in a UK supplied S2 phone?

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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.

I reconsidered all the options available to me (telstra, optus, 3,
virgin etc) as well as using Vodafone UK. The killer for the latter is
the data charges when roaming otherwise the passport scheme is a good
idea if you are not making/receiving many calls. It would have been
excellent if I had travelled to Australia last summer when the passport
connection was free. But there would still have been the data charge
problem.

Before I went this last time, I had a telstra SIM shipped to me in the
UK.What I did was to top it up with £57 (AU$100) to give me 500mins/500
texts to Australian numbers then used AU$79 of that top up to buy 750MB
of data for the month. I would have bought the data anyway. So
effectively the calls cost me AU$21 for 500 minutes. The down side is
that any balance you have left at the end of the month is lost unless
you convert it to one of their long-life extensions.

AFAIAA, 3 Australia and Vodafone have now merged. Aussies friends say VF
have taken over 3. They reckon it's for the better. I have no opinion, I
just want something that works reliably. Australia is a very, very big
place!

Ian



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"Chris Kirby" wrote in message
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Steve Terry wrote:

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

Will a Aussie PAYG SIM on 3 work in a UK supplied S2 phone?
Chris


I doubt it unless you change the settings to call the Oz Skype node,
might work might not.

Simpler to buy a Oz 3 Skype phone
SE 502 is slightly cheaper there than here

Steve Terry
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"Ian" wrote in message
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In message , Steve Terry
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"Ian" wrote in message
...
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

snip top post

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

Steve Terry
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