Phoning Uk From Usa

[we*luv*orlando!!]

Does anyone know if buying a phone card in the US to phone home is better value than the card the Post Office is doing at the moment? With the prepaid card at the PO calls from US to Uk cost .30p a minute. My sister will be phoning home ALOT while we are away to check on her cat(!)...LOL...

If anyone has recently used any type of USA phone card I would be interested to know!

 

[matty624]

I'd like to know about this too. For the last couple of years we've used tri-band mobiles, mainly to communicate between the two of us when we split up in shops etc. It's cost a fortune. £1/minute at times!
Before that, we used cards we'd bought over there (obviously only to ring home), I seem to remember that it was still a £1/min sort of cost. If you can get a card that's only 30p, it certainly sounds good value.
Ian

 

[BevS97]

if you go to google and search for phone cards you will find 100's, some of them will let you phone from the USA to the UK for just a few pence a minute. I think they work by emailing you all the info that would be on the phonecard, so you don't get a physical card, just an access number and pin code.

We bought one from Airtours last time, and it was very cheap. I think it was $10 and it lasted ages, not sure of the exact rate, but we used it a lot and it still had money on it when we came home.

I think the ones available in Walmart etc over there are much worse value for money

Bev

 

[Olaf]

If you purchase an AT&T prepaid phone card, they'll deduct 2 minutes for every one minute of call time to the UK. I just checked Wal-mart's website and they have a 500 minute card for $30.00, so I think that would run you about 12 cents a minute. They have a 120 minute card for $10.00.

FYI those rates are for calls to landlines. If you call a mobile, it's much more, something like 10 minutes for every one minute of call time.

Bev is probably right about Wal-mart not being the cheapest, but it might be the most convenient.

 

[tyke]

We purchased a $10 phone card from Walgreens which gave us well over 1 hour of call time to the UK - we used it loads and still had a couple of dollars remaining when we came home !

tyke

 

[Wednesday till I die]

7/11 do a $10 card which lasts ages. I think you can get a lot cheaper than 30p a minute.

Barry.

 

[Aceman88888]

We bought a Wal Mart AT&T card 2 weeks ago, and the rate was 15 cents per minute back to the uk but it would not connect through our villa phone without first activating the phone with a credit card.... Much too much messing about so my friend who bought it, made calls from the parks etc.

I used my triband phone ok but it took half a day before it found its international roaming 'legs'. Connected generally to T-Mobile but sometimes to AT&T. I'm expecting about 50p per minute on that one when the bill comes through as it's on a corporate account.

 

[SidB]

Originally posted by we*luv*orlando!!
My sister will be phoning home ALOT while we are away to check on her cat

A talking cat !!!

Sorry, I'll get me coat.

 

[Penny12]

If you find yourself onsite and in need of a phone card, they sell phone cards behind the front desk at the Swan or Dolphin - from memory, I think they were the AT&T ones. Sam will know when she gets back from her trip - she bought one last year to ring home and I know she used it a <i>lot</i>

 

[we*luv*orlando!!]

Thanks everyone! This has been very helpful, I think we will buy one card from the PO so we have something until we go shopping and then buy the cards at Walgreens or Walmart.

SidB.....the cat may as well talk for all the worry she is causing my sister! If I have a relaxed sis then we all have a better time!!!!


Thanks!

 

[Kimkie]

We bought a £10 card here before we left and it did us really well.