Roming and Mobile Data in Europe

andy · 07-05-2007, 16:57

As well as Vodafone, it's also worth looking at O2 UK's My Europe Extra, which for £10 a month gives free incoming calls, and 25p outgoing to Europe. Used with callback, you can find cheaper outgoing options than the 25p. Depending on how many calls and the length of them, this could easily work out cheaper than Vodafone, by saving all the connection fees.

At the moment, the callback operation ReturnCall still has a 2p/min rate for UK landlines, and from 5p for many others. It seems a bit haphazard in the time waited for the callback, sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes a minute, occasionally not at all, but is cheap enough to put up with this. With a Voipbuster or Voipcheap account as well, used for callthrough after the callback, then under 3p/min is possible to 40 countries' landlines.

On some foreign networks though, the trigger call may be charged, so I wouldn't bet on it as the only choice; but even then it is cheaper than the Vodafone connect fee.

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andy (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,128 Join Date: 10 Dec 2004 Country:	07-05-2007, 16:57 As well as Vodafone, it's also worth looking at O2 UK's My Europe Extra, which for £10 a month gives free incoming calls, and 25p outgoing to Europe. Used with callback, you can find cheaper outgoing options than the 25p. Depending on how many calls and the length of them, this could easily work out cheaper than Vodafone, by saving all the connection fees. At the moment, the callback operation ReturnCall still has a 2p/min rate for UK landlines, and from 5p for many others. It seems a bit haphazard in the time waited for the callback, sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes a minute, occasionally not at all, but is cheap enough to put up with this. With a Voipbuster or Voipcheap account as well, used for callthrough after the callback, then under 3p/min is possible to 40 countries' landlines. On some foreign networks though, the trigger call may be charged, so I wouldn't bet on it as the only choice; but even then it is cheaper than the Vodafone connect fee.