Call UK from USA on Cellphone

lulubunch · **Call UK from USA on Cellphone -** 25-07-2007, 17:38

I will be visiting South Freeport Maine and Newport Rhode Island in September this year (2007). I have a UK Orange pay as you go cell phone. As we are staying in a house with no land line, I will have to use the cell phone to make calls home every day to my elderly dad. Has anybody used the ecallplus system ($10 a month and calls at around 12c a minute) or the oneroam Jolt card? (£14.99 and calls at 35c a minute, incoming and outgoing) or can anybody recommend something else?

MATHA531 · 25-07-2007, 18:25

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Originally Posted by lulubunch

I will be visiting South Freeport Maine and Newport Rhode Island in September this year (2007). I have a UK Orange pay as you go cell phone. As we are staying in a house with no land line, I will have to use the cell phone to make calls home every day to my elderly dad. Has anybody used the ecallplus system ($10 a month and calls at around 12c a minute) or the oneroam Jolt card? (£14.99 and calls at 35c a minute, incoming and outgoing) or can anybody recommend something else?

You should be able to sign up for a US PAYG easily enough (do remember your phone to roam in the USA needs to have 1900 frequency at the least and depending on just where you are might also need 850)

Then you can open up an account with many ld companies (look up bizon)...you will pay for a local call on the PAYG and pay next to nothing to call the UK (there are other cards too and I am sure there are cards in the UK..the bizon site has a whoe slew of them listed)...and I think you can set call forwarding to the US number on your UK mobile...but do remember that on US phones you pay to receive as well as to make...

DRNewcomb · 25-07-2007, 21:57

I'm trying to recall if Orange-UK has some special deal for cheap roaming in the US. There are some US MVNO prepaid SIMs that include long distance to most W. European landlines.

snidely · 26-07-2007, 00:09

To elaborate on what Matha said, dial up services like www.onesuite.com or www.pingo.com charge about 3¢/min. to call a UK landline. You would just use up your minutes on the prepaid. IF you could find a cell w. free nites and weekends, that would be ideal. However, I think those "free" options are only available for post paid. Will you have a computer?

...mike

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lulubunch (Offline) Junior Member Newbie Posts: 1 Join Date: 25 Jul 2007 Country:	Call UK from USA on Cellphone - 25-07-2007, 17:38 I will be visiting South Freeport Maine and Newport Rhode Island in September this year (2007). I have a UK Orange pay as you go cell phone. As we are staying in a house with no land line, I will have to use the cell phone to make calls home every day to my elderly dad. Has anybody used the ecallplus system ($10 a month and calls at around 12c a minute) or the oneroam Jolt card? (£14.99 and calls at 35c a minute, incoming and outgoing) or can anybody recommend something else?

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	25-07-2007, 21:57 I'm trying to recall if Orange-UK has some special deal for cheap roaming in the US. There are some US MVNO prepaid SIMs that include long distance to most W. European landlines.

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	26-07-2007, 00:09 To elaborate on what Matha said, dial up services like www.onesuite.com or www.pingo.com charge about 3¢/min. to call a UK landline. You would just use up your minutes on the prepaid. IF you could find a cell w. free nites and weekends, that would be ideal. However, I think those "free" options are only available for post paid. Will you have a computer? ...mike Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.