What SimCard for Bulgaria to UK?
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From: allen on 12 Jul 2010 17:50 Hello, I am with vodaphone, I will be on holiday in Bulgaria from 03 Sept 10 this will be for 14 days. Anyone know the best way to sort out very low cost mobile calls home? I will be phoning landlines and Mobiles. Thanks for any help/advice, Allen
From: JL on 13 Jul 2010 11:49 On 12 July, 22:50, al...(a)example.invalid wrote: > Hello, > I am with vodaphone, I will be on holiday in Bulgaria from 03 Sept 10 > this will be for 14 days. > Anyone know the best way to sort out very low cost mobile calls home? > > I will be phoning landlines and Mobiles. > Thanks for any help/advice, > > Allen If you want to keep things simple you could add Vodafone Passport onto your Vodafone account. When you are in Bulgaria your calls will cost the same as they do at home with 75p added per call as a connection charge. If you are on contract and have inclusive minutes you'll be able to use these. e.g. Making a 10 minute call home would cost 75p + 10 inclusive minutes Answering a call for 35 minutes would cost just 75p + nothing extra per minute. The only downside to Passport is that short calls can be expensive, but for longer calls it is a fantastic money saver. If someone from the UK calls you they'll only pay their normal rate, so to answer a call for up to an hour for just 75p is pretty good value. www.vodafone.co.uk/passport Other options include getting a Bulgarian SIM or a global SIM like SIM4Travel. Getting a local SIM will often be cheaper but it can be difficult to understand automated menu's etc. in a foreign language. SIM4Travel also carries a 35p (or around that) charge per day you use the SIM. Not something clearly stated on the website.
From: Theo Markettos on 13 Jul 2010 13:08 JL <newsaccount(a)mail2web.com> wrote: > Other options include getting a Bulgarian SIM or a global SIM like > SIM4Travel. Getting a local SIM will often be cheaper but it can be > difficult to understand automated menu's etc. in a foreign language. > SIM4Travel also carries a 35p (or around that) charge per day you use > the SIM. Not something clearly stated on the website. https://www.worldsim.com/Tariffs.aspx is free to receive (has UK number) For local SIMs, you have to register them (with your passport etc). This list may be out of date, but there's nothing cheaper than Worldsim for making calls there: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/bulgaria.html Another option for making calls, if you have free incoming and you can get a small amount of roaming data, is to use a phone app that tells a server to ring you back. That way you only pay cheap VOIP rates. Lots of Betamax services do that. Other ringback services may allow you to initiate calls by phoning a number which then doesn't answer, so you don't even need to use any data. Though I can't think of any of these off the top of my head. Theo
From: allen on 13 Jul 2010 14:00 On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:49:02 -0700 (PDT), JL <newsaccount(a)mail2web.com> wrote: > >If you want to keep things simple you could add Vodafone Passport onto >your Vodafone account. When you are in Bulgaria your calls will cost >the same as they do at home with 75p added per call as a connection >charge. If you are on contract and have inclusive minutes you'll be >able to use these. > >e.g. Making a 10 minute call home would cost 75p + 10 inclusive >minutes >Answering a call for 35 minutes would cost just 75p + nothing extra >per minute. > >The only downside to Passport is that short calls can be expensive, >but for longer calls it is a fantastic money saver. If someone from >the UK calls you they'll only pay their normal rate, so to answer a >call for up to an hour for just 75p is pretty good value. > >www.vodafone.co.uk/passport > >Other options include getting a Bulgarian SIM or a global SIM like >SIM4Travel. Getting a local SIM will often be cheaper but it can be >difficult to understand automated menu's etc. in a foreign language. >SIM4Travel also carries a 35p (or around that) charge per day you use >the SIM. Not something clearly stated on the website. Thank you very much JL, this has helped me. I will try and let you know what I do..... I think the 'SIM4Travel' looks ok. However....we'll have to see, thanks again! Allen
From: allen on 13 Jul 2010 14:03 On 13 Jul 2010 18:08:49 +0100 (BST), Theo Markettos <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: >JL <newsaccount(a)mail2web.com> wrote: >> Other options include getting a Bulgarian SIM or a global SIM like >> SIM4Travel. Getting a local SIM will often be cheaper but it can be >> difficult to understand automated menu's etc. in a foreign language. >> SIM4Travel also carries a 35p (or around that) charge per day you use >> the SIM. Not something clearly stated on the website. > >https://www.worldsim.com/Tariffs.aspx >is free to receive (has UK number) > >For local SIMs, you have to register them (with your passport etc). This >list may be out of date, but there's nothing cheaper than Worldsim for >making calls there: >http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/bulgaria.html > >Another option for making calls, if you have free incoming and you can get a >small amount of roaming data, is to use a phone app that tells a server to >ring you back. That way you only pay cheap VOIP rates. Lots of Betamax >services do that. Other ringback services may allow you to initiate calls >by phoning a number which then doesn't answer, so you don't even need to use >any data. Though I can't think of any of these off the top of my head. > >Theo Thanks to you also Theo! As I said to JL, I will try and get sorted, then let you know how I get on with this. Thanks for your reply! Allen
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