Vodaphone Spain pay as you go account transfered to UK, and rest of Europe? Possible?

petkow · 10-03-2008, 16:57

If you have all those SIM's and want to be travelling then I am sure you will make plenty of use of them then. There is no point trying to 'convert' them (and as has been pointed out this is not even possible). As Andy has mentioned it is worth picking up new cheap SIM's in the UK for while you are here. In most case these only cost a few pounds, include credit and if you know what you are doing international calls are extremely cheap.

If you really wanted to make use of your Vodafone Spain SIM before you even get there, you can activate Passport on it. In this case, if you use it in most European countries, you will pay local rates plus a one off €1 flat rate per call. If people call you on your Spanish number you can recieve the call anywhere in Europe and you only pay €1 per call to receive the call! This can be useful if you know people in Spain and are expecting calls from them whilst you are travelling or in my case if you need a 'Spanish contact number' (for work or otherwise) whilst you are in the UK or elsewhere.

One thing to note: With Vodafone Passport Spain, the call cap is at 20minutes. With Vodafone Passport UK , the call cap is a more generous 60minutes. After this you pay normal roaming rates.

saren · 10-03-2008, 17:11

ok thanks for all that

I should mention i don't really need people to call me from the places i have already visited (ie. USA, Spain). I don't plan to revisit those countries in the next decade, so let's forget about them. Also, receiving calls aren't all that important to me, neither is SMS.

What's important to me is making outgoing calls to mobiles in each respective country I visit.

For example, I'm going to spend 2 months in UK (I will be calling UK mobiles, and that's about it - therefore outgoing calls to mobiles are the seller for me.

I am looking for the cheapest outgoing rates/minute to mobiles in the uk, and then keep those rates going to the next 10 or so european countries i plan to visit (i.e. norway, sweden, finland, holland, germany, etc...)

The idea of recieving a call for 1 euro per call seems too expensive to me. This vodafone passport option sounded good until you mentioned the 1euro flat rate per call.

As such, I feel inclined to either continue purchasing local SIMS in each country I visit (thus adding to my collection of old SIMS) or buy a world SIM (like TRAVELSIM)

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	10-03-2008, 16:57 If you have all those SIM's and want to be travelling then I am sure you will make plenty of use of them then. There is no point trying to 'convert' them (and as has been pointed out this is not even possible). As Andy has mentioned it is worth picking up new cheap SIM's in the UK for while you are here. In most case these only cost a few pounds, include credit and if you know what you are doing international calls are extremely cheap. If you really wanted to make use of your Vodafone Spain SIM before you even get there, you can activate Passport on it. In this case, if you use it in most European countries, you will pay local rates plus a one off €1 flat rate per call. If people call you on your Spanish number you can recieve the call anywhere in Europe and you only pay €1 per call to receive the call! This can be useful if you know people in Spain and are expecting calls from them whilst you are travelling or in my case if you need a 'Spanish contact number' (for work or otherwise) whilst you are in the UK or elsewhere. One thing to note: With Vodafone Passport Spain, the call cap is at 20minutes. With Vodafone Passport UK , the call cap is a more generous 60minutes. After this you pay normal roaming rates.

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saren (Offline) Member Official Member Posts: 40 Join Date: 10 Mar 2008 Country:	10-03-2008, 17:11 ok thanks for all that I should mention i don't really need people to call me from the places i have already visited (ie. USA, Spain). I don't plan to revisit those countries in the next decade, so let's forget about them. Also, receiving calls aren't all that important to me, neither is SMS. What's important to me is making outgoing calls to mobiles in each respective country I visit. For example, I'm going to spend 2 months in UK (I will be calling UK mobiles, and that's about it - therefore outgoing calls to mobiles are the seller for me. I am looking for the cheapest outgoing rates/minute to mobiles in the uk, and then keep those rates going to the next 10 or so european countries i plan to visit (i.e. norway, sweden, finland, holland, germany, etc...) The idea of recieving a call for 1 euro per call seems too expensive to me. This vodafone passport option sounded good until you mentioned the 1euro flat rate per call. As such, I feel inclined to either continue purchasing local SIMS in each country I visit (thus adding to my collection of old SIMS) or buy a world SIM (like TRAVELSIM)