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0870 794 4840
Mobile phone networks have rip off charges for international
phone calls. Don't pay them! Our cheap calls service is usually
far cheaper. Also, if you are in Northern Ireland
and you phone the Republic of Ireland from your mobile please see our special Republic of Ireland page.
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New: we have launched a new service
for contract/pay monthly mobile users: free
international phone calls! Try it now! If you have a phone
with cross network minutes this is a very easy and cheap (free!) way of
making international calls (works on Orange).
If you're on O2, Vodafone,
Three or Virgin Mobile please also visit the site for details of
alternative services.
How much you can save depends on what network you're with and what
tariff you're on. To make it easy, we've got details for some of the
most popular networks below. To view this information either scroll
down or click on the name of your network below.
Unless stated otherwise, this information was correct at 13th November
2004. Mobile networks change prices from time
to time so please check with them. We've included their phone numbers
below.
- Orange: call 150. From any other phone dial 0800 80 10
80.
- Vodafone: dial 191 191 from a Vodafone or 01635 687423 from
any other phone.
- O2: 0870 214 000.
- T-Mobile: 0800 956 2120 (free call).
- Virgin: 0845 6000 789.
- Three: 333 from your Three handset.
- Tesco Mobile: 0870 900 4455.
When you call from a mobile, remember to only press the call or send button
after dialing the access number but not again after dialing the destination
number. If you dial some numbers frequently, you might like to
program the whole thing into your phone - find out how in our
tips and tricks section.
Information for cheap international phone calls for
different mobile networks
O2
If you joined O2 before 27th April 2007 and haven't upgraded or
started a new contract since, you can make free calls to our 0870 794
4840 and 0844 570 4840 access numbers using your inclusive
minutes.
Customers joining O2 or changing their contract after this date or
pre-pay customers should use our new service.
Vodafone
New: use our new service.
Contract / pay monthly users: you can make great savings on
Vodafone's rip-off international call charges. Vodafone don't include
calls to our service in your freee minutes. Exactly how much you can
save depends on what tariff you're on:
- Anytime 30 / Anytime 100:
calls to our 0870 794 4840 cheap calls access
number are charged at the 'fixed line / vodafone' rate i.e. 15p per
minute. This means we are at least 84% cheaper (for
countries like Ireland) and up
to 91% cheaper (for countries like Nigeria). Even if you pay an extra
£2.50 for Vodafone's "International Call Saver" we will still be
at least 25% cheaper and up to 83% cheaper! To put it in
perspective, for phoning Jamaica
Vodafone charges £1.65 (or 90p with the "International Call
Saver" option) but with us you pay just 15p!!
- Anytime 200 / Anytime 400: calls to our 0870 794 4840 cheap
calls access number are charged at 12p per minute. This means
we are at least 87% cheaper and up to 92% cheaper.
Even if you pay Vodafone extra for "International Call Saver" we are
at least 40% cheaper and up to 86% cheaper.
- Anytime 1000: this tariff includes "International Call
Saver", so its call charges are lower than Vodafone's normal charges,
but still a rip off. We are at least 40% cheaper and up to
86% cheaper!
- Evening & Weekend: at peak times, calls to our cheap
calls access number are 35p per minute, which means calls will
be at least 62% cheaper and up to 78% cheaper. If you
opt for Vodafone's "International Call Saver" option then at peak time
we will not be cheaper for Republic of Ireland, USA, Canada and most of
Europe, but we will be at least 12% cheaper and up to 61%
cheaper. At off peak times calling our access number
costs 10p per minute so we will be at least 89% cheaper
and up to 93% cheaper. If you have Vodafone's "International
Call Saver" option we will be at least 50% cheaper and up to
88% cheaper!
Unfortunately we have no information for our 0844 number or for
Vodafone's pay-as-you-go users due to the fact that Vodafone makes it
difficult for us to get their pricing information clearly.
T-Mobile
New: use our new service.
Contract / pay monthly customers can make excellent
savings over T-Mobile's rip-off call charges. Calls to our 0870
794 4840 cheap calls access number are just 10p per minute at all
times making us at least 80% cheaper (on countries like Republic of Ireland) and up to
92% cheaper (on countries like Nigeria and Jamaica). Even if you pay T-Mobile
another £2.50 per month (why waste your money?)
for their 'International Option' we are still at least 33%
cheaper (except for USA and Canada). It is unclear
what T-Mobile charge for our 0844 cheap calls number so please contact
them to find out.
T-Mobile pre-pay customers can save too.
Calls to our 0870 794 4840 cheap international calls number are
40p per minute at all times, which is at least 42% cheaper
(for countries like USA)
than using T-Mobile and up to 77% cheaper (for countries like Thailand). Just to make it clear,
T-Mobile would charge you a rip-off £1.80 per minute for
phoning somewhere like Japan but with
us it would cost just 40p.
Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile charges 15p per mimute for calling our cheap calls
number 0870 794 4840. Due to the way Virgin charges calls to our number,
it isn't economical to use our service to phone the Republic of Ireland.
However for all other countries we are significantly
cheaper. We are at least 25% cheaper (for countries like
Australia) and up to 81%
cheaper (for countries like South Korea). Virgin Mobile would
charge you 40p per minute for phoning Spain but with us you'll be charged
just 15p - great low cost international calls! Virgin Mobile would
charge you an outrageous 80p per minute to call Nigeria. Again, our service is just
15p per minute.
Orange
Got cross-network minutes? Make free
international calls from your Orange phone.
For contract / pay monthly customers, the cost of dialing our
access numbers depends on what kind of tariff you're on:
- 'Your Plan' or 'Orange to Orange off peak': our 0870 794 4840
and 0844 570 4840 access numbers cost just 10p per minute
to phone. Excellent value.
- Everyday 50: this is the best Orange tariff for making cheap
international phone calls. Our 0870 794 4840 cheap calls access number
costs 35p per minute at peak times but is included in your
inclusive evening minutes and when your minutes are used up
calls will cost just 1p per minute! It is not clear how
Orange charge for the 0844 number on this tariff so please contact
them. But by using the 0870 number you can make 50 minutes of
off-peak international calls every day for free!
- Orange Everytime (20 / 200 / 400 / 1000): it costs just 10p per
minute at any time to phone our 0870 794 4480
cheap calls access number. Costs for the 0844 number are not clear so
please contact Orange and ask them.
- Orange Talk Plans (i.e. Talk 60 / 150 / 200 / 500 / 1800 / 5000 /
10000): it costs just 10p per minute at any time to phone our
0870 794 4840 number. Costs for the 0844 number are not clear so
please contact Orange and ask them.
If you're on 'Your Plan', an Orange Talk Plan or Orange Everytime we are
at least 33% cheaper and up to 87% cheaper. For instance,
calling Nigeria with us will cost
just 10p per minute but with Orange it would cost a ridiculous
80p per minute! Even for phoning (for example)
Austria, Denmark or Spain we are 50% cheaper - we
charge 10p and Orange charges 20p!
For pay-as-you-go users the costs are as follows:
- Fixed Rates All Day: calls to both our week and weekend cheap calls
access numbers are just 10p per minute at any time. This means
we are at least 50% cheaper and up to 90% cheaper
than Orange's international call charges!
- Talk and Save: calls to both our access numbers cost just
25p for the first 3 minutes and thereafter just 5p. Great
value! This means that for the first 3 minutes we are cheaper
for all countries except Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, USA,
Canada and Europe 1 and 2 zones. For all other
countries we are at least 42% cheaper and up to 80%
cheaper. Thereafter we are at least 75% cheaper and up
to 95% cheaper (e.g. for Nigeria).
- Choose your own off-peak: calls to both our access numbers cost
35p per minute at peak times and just 10p per minute at
off-peak times! This means that at peak time we are only cheaper if you
are phoning Australia, New Zealand and 'rest of the world'. At off peak
times we are at least 50% cheaper and 90% cheaper!
Three / 3
New: we have a new service just for 3
customers: make international calls
for 10p/min!
If you're a Three pay monthly / contract customer then you can
make great savings over Three's rip-off international call charges.
Calling our both our cheap calls access numbers (i.e. 0870 794 4840 and
0844 570 4840) costs just 15p per minute from the 'voice &
picture service area'. This means that using our service will be at
least 25% cheaper and up to 81% cheaper. For example, for
calling Singapore Three
charges you 40p per minute, but if you use our service you are only
charged 15p per minute--that's over 60% cheaper!
If you're a Three pre-pay (i.e. ThreePay) customer then you can
make great savings too. Calls to bother our access numbers are charged
at just 15p per minute so this means that using our service will
be at least 40% cheaper and up to 85% cheaper. For
instance, calling Zimbabwe with
Three would cost you £1.00 per minute but if you use our cheap
calls access number it would cost you just 15p per minute--that's
85% cheaper!
Three is fairly unique as it offers calls to 0871 numbers for just 15p
per minute so this means you can call India for just 15p!
Please visit our Cheap Calls
India web site for more information.
Tesco Mobile (updated 5 January 2006)
We have developed a new service just for Tesco Mobile customers.
Make international calls, UK landline calls and UK mobile
calls (O2, Orange) for just 10p (not just on your 3 favourites!) -
see our Tesco page (includes
details for Tesco Value SIM users too)!
Tesco Mobile has outrageous charges for international calls! For example, for
phoning Spain they would charge you
89p per minute and if that's not bad enough, for phoning
Nigeria they would charge you
£1.50! But the good news is that you can just use our cheap calls
service and pay Tesco Mobile's standard charge of 20p saving around
75%!
If you have a Tesco Value SIM, you just pay 15p per minute.
You may note that we have limited information for O2 or Vodafone on
this web site. This is because these two networks make it difficult to
get their pricing information. We are going to make a request to them
for pricing information, and if we do not receive it we will contact the
telecom industry regulator OFCOM to make a complaint. We would expect
OFCOM to act decisively given that Vodafone and O2 are seen as having
'significant market power'. In the mean time
we encourage to you phone Vodafone on 191 191 or phone O2 on
0870 214 000.
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