Orange Call Abroad / "Camel" [renamed thread]

[Ukap]

I cut and paste this from the UK tmobile site. IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
IVR only for pay monthly customers.
Text available for PAYG

copied this too....Bundles available on any T-Mobile price plan including pay as you go

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/c...he-uk/bundles/

[MATHA531]

So you're right...they've gone back to allowing pay as you go to purchase bundles for calling the USA...they had last summer but then they dropped it and had a note that bundles were only available to pay monthly customers for a while but now they're back to allowing PAYG to purchase the bundles by texting A tothe number indicated.....good deal.

[f13dfx]

Is this 2 FREE T-Mobile Pay-As-You-Go Sim Cards offer still available?
http://www.t-mobilesimgiveaway.co.uk...d=ON-TM-W-Home

[Ukap]

For my friends and family to call me on my UK cell number it is quite expensive for them (especially if they do not have an international plan to get a good rate). ATT have a rate for 26c a minute but you have to sign up for an International plan at $3.99 a month.

What I have done instead is put my UK cell number on my Jajah account. My UK cell number has now been assigned a USA number (Philadelphia). When my friends call this USA number it is forwarded to my UK number. They don't pay for the call but I pay 18c per minute charged on my jajah account for the call from a USA phone to a UK cell number.

Does this plan sound good? Anyone have other suggestions?

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by Ukap

Does this plan sound good? Anyone have other suggestions?

Sounds like a good idea, if you don't mind paying. You could also tell your friends to use a calling card with low UK rates (CPC has some, and I'm sure Callmart and other sources have comparable offers).

[andy]

Orange UK have launched animals name tariffs on PAYG, which they've had on contracts for a year or so.

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/payasyougo

The option called Camel has cheap international calls to more destinations than Call Abroad, and some are cheaper now. USA and Canada are 6p/min, while several European mobiles are 10p/min, which seems unbeatable to me for direct-dialled calls (unless using the bundle option on O2 payg). UK calls are all 20p/min (undercut by the 15p Raccoon tariff)

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by andy

Orange UK have launched animals name tariffs on PAYG, which they've had on contracts for a year or so.

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/payasyougo

The option called Camel has cheap international calls to more destinations than Call Abroad, and some are cheaper now. USA and Canada are 6p/min, while several European mobiles are 10p/min, which seems unbeatable to me for direct-dialled calls (unless using the bundle option on O2 payg). UK calls are all 20p/min (undercut by the 15p Raccoon tariff)

Yep, it's a good deal. Too bad they couldn't have combined Camel and Racoon (sic), that would have been unbeatable (as it is, the Carphone Warehouse international SIM has a 15p rate, though no roaming).

I wonder if the name Camel was inspired by the CAMEL roaming/billing system?

[andy]

Originally Posted by Motel75

I wonder if the name Camel was inspired by the CAMEL roaming/billing system?

It seems unlikely, as the marketing department probably don't even know the name in a more technical context

When the original Animals contract tariffs were first rumoured (and in fact turned out to be an accurate leak), they were treated by some people for quite a while as a hoax, like an advance April Fool joke as that was the actual launch date

[Motel75]

Anyone who'd like a free Orange SIM (or four) to try this out can go to:

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/simoffer