Re: Calling to UK from an Optus or Telstra prepaid SIM ?

[The Family]

Get a fixed-line phone card when you arrive in Australia (available from
myriad companies almost everywhere) and pay 2c or 3c/min + flagfall of about
30c.

Or get a prepaid mobile phone card and pay about 74c/min (Optus), 66c/min
(Telstra) or 35c/min (Vodafone). NB Vodafone's coverage is not as good as
Telstra, especially in rural areas. However, Voda is OK in major cities and
the larger rural towns. AAPT resells Voda and charges 40c/min to the UK.
However, its local call (ie calls within Australia) cost of 49c/min with no
flagfall, charged by the second, is lower than most local call prepay rates.


"Martin Taylor" <mjpt57 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com.au> wrote in message
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> ___ said....
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> > HI from the UK. I plan to stay in Melbourne soon. If I use my Samsung
> > C100 with a Telstra prepaid SIM card it will cost me about 80c a min to
> > call the UK I've been told (27p) is this correct ? Any better cheaper
> > options I should know about ?
>
> See if you can use someone's landline. International calls from fixed
> phones are so much cheaper. Just offer to pay for the calls.
>
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