How much does it cost for someone in SE/FI/NO to call my UK mobile#? +44-770-030-####
May 7, 2017, 1:12 pm
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How much does it cost for someone in SE/FI/NO to call my UK mobile#? +44-770-030-####
I have this UK mobile number: +44-770-030-####.
How much does it cost for someone in Sweden, Finland, or Norway to call me at that number when I'm roaming in those countries? (calling from landline or mobile)
Thanks!
How much does it cost for someone in Sweden, Finland, or Norway to call me at that number when I'm roaming in those countries? (calling from landline or mobile)
Thanks!
May 8, 2017, 2:24 am
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Edited to add: You can lower the price considerably even without making any contracts just using some other provider's prefix. For example https://nettia.fi/en/rates/ which is 6 cents a minute to UK mobile. But I guess most people who don't call much internationally just use default one.
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May 8, 2017, 3:48 am
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1. zero cents additional per minute up to a fixed amount of minutes per month (as I have some plans that allow me to make phone calls to such UK numbers as part of a fixed monthly allotment)
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2. as much as around 44-50 cents per minutes.
Mostly it has cost me around 5-33 US cents per minute to call such numbers using my Nordic/Scandinavian phone lines if not using highly specialized plans, if looking back at expenses over the past 5 years.
For the typical old lady in these countries to call a UK mobile number, I'd expect it to be more like the 27-50 cents/minute range.
May 23, 2017, 6:38 am
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Who is yours and their mobile providers and when are you looking to travel? If it's after the 15th of June and they are with the "right" mobile company that recognises them and you under the new EU legislation, it may not cost them anything other than their standard or inclusive minutes from their mobile.
Of course, if you can get free/cheap data while you are travelling, can't those people use an app like Viber or Whatsapp to call you?
Of course, if you can get free/cheap data while you are travelling, can't those people use an app like Viber or Whatsapp to call you?
May 23, 2017, 8:25 pm
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ooops... I learned the hard way. I made a boo-boo and forgot to hit "end" at the end of the phone call. The friend on the other end also forgot. We actually only spoke for about 3 minutes. However, according to the phone company and the call logs on our phones, the call actually lasted over half an hour. The result? Almost $17 for one 3-minute call. Tried to get the phone company to reverse that change but got no where.
Maybe I should go back to a flip-phone because there's almost no way to forget to hang up.
May 27, 2017, 11:58 am
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Who is yours and their mobile providers and when are you looking to travel? If it's after the 15th of June and they are with the "right" mobile company that recognises them and you under the new EU legislation, it may not cost them anything other than their standard or inclusive minutes from their mobile.
If you pay less than approx 0.77 eurocents per MB (exclusive of tax) for data on average (and there are various rules for how to work out the amount paid for data on complex packaged deals) then you may have to pay more for roaming data over particular limits.
May 31, 2017, 6:47 am
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May 31, 2017, 10:24 am
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Not eventually, but June 15th as well for Vodafone, O2, and 3 at least. Norway isn't part of the EU, but is part of the EEA and gets around 10% of EU regulations, including ones on services like this.
thanks!