Price increases all around for UK prepaid

[petkow]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

Check my math on this...I'm thinking of the vodafone plan (and I'm referring here about calls to the USA and Canada where all calls are considered landlines. £10 top up for 60 minutes...sounds fantastic but that means £1 for 6 minutes or between 16p and 17p per minute. The vodafone international plan (as well as the T Mobile International plan) is 5p/minute to North America and nothing up front.......is my math correct and so at least if you're not calling mobile within Europe, you do better without the add on (or have I messed up my math)...Orange camel is 6p/minute to North America.

None of which compares to YCW which is 3p/minute to North America timed to the second BTW.

I don´t think the Math is correct, but will admit I don´t know much about the Vodafone deal. Doesn´t it give you the 60 free mins as a bonus for a 10 quid topup, AND you still have the 10 pounds as credit? Of course that credit could be used to make more calls to the USA and Canada via the 5p/min deal. At the end of the day the combined price per minute is quite good indeed.

I suppose another efficient way of doing so would be to call a a Betamax local access number (at normal UK landline rates). Betamax/Finarea/Dellmont effectively gives you the USA and Canada for free. If you are planning on making long calls to the USA this way, it would be worth adding Vodafone Stop the clock which gives you 1 hours calling to UK landlines but just charges you for 3mins.

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by petkow

I don´t think the Math is correct, but will admit I don´t know much about the Vodafone deal. Doesn´t it give you the 60 free mins as a bonus for a 10 quid topup, AND you still have the 10 pounds as credit? Of course that credit could be used to make more calls to the USA and Canada via the 5p/min deal. At the end of the day the combined price per minute is quite good indeed.

I suppose another efficient way of doing so would be to call a a Betamax local access number (at normal UK landline rates). Betamax/Finarea/Dellmont effectively gives you the USA and Canada for free. If you are planning on making long calls to the USA this way, it would be worth adding Vodafone Stop the clock which gives you 1 hours calling to UK landlines but just charges you for 3mins.

I got you but say if my intent as a tourist is to spend 7 days in the UK (or even 14 days). For the most part, I need the phone to receive calls and to call home...now if I don't go over 60 minutes and make few local calls, I would actually probably never get to the point where I go into the 10 quid so I suppose it really has more to do with your calling patterns...I mean I might call a couple of friends a couple of times and a couple of restaurants and whatever but the vast majority of my calls are made home to the USA.

[PhotoJim]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

I got you but say if my intent as a tourist is to spend 7 days in the UK (or even 14 days). For the most part, I need the phone to receive calls and to call home...now if I don't go over 60 minutes and make few local calls, I would actually probably never get to the point where I go into the 10 quid so I suppose it really has more to do with your calling patterns...I mean I might call a couple of friends a couple of times and a couple of restaurants and whatever but the vast majority of my calls are made home to the USA.

That's exactly why I still have my Orange Call Abroad SIM (similar to Camel; no longer available). It's cheap enough.

Orange was the only UK provider that would let me register my Canadian credit card, too, so it's easy to keep it alive.

It doesn't hurt that I have an awesome, awesome phone number (0796 xyxyxxx)!

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by PhotoJim

That's exactly why I still have my Orange Call Abroad SIM (similar to Camel; no longer available). It's cheap enough.

Orange was the only UK provider that would let me register my Canadian credit card, too, so it's easy to keep it alive.

It doesn't hurt that I have an awesome, awesome phone number (0796 xyxyxxx)!

Doesn't Orange charge 6p/minute to call North America on this plan? That's twice as much as you need to spend as Orange is also on YCW along with TMo and 3 for its 3p/minute for calls to North America!