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From: Steve Terry on 9 Mar 2010 13:46
"Ian" <nospam(a)nospam.wolvertonrail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> When I visited Australia late last year, I put a telstra mobile SIM in my
> UK mobile and used an Australian skype call through number to regularly
> call back to the UK. The Australia part of the call came out of the
> inclusive telstra minutes and the Skype part out of the monthly
> subscription (which could have been PAYG if I'd have so chosen). The call
> quality was excellent. I also have the Fring skype client on the mobile &
> could have used that instead but the call quality was awful..
>
> Being "belt-and-braces", I also had a UK VF SIM with VF passport (75p
> connection charge) as backup but did not use it. Since the demise of
> 3-like-home, the roaming costs of calling back to the UK using any UK
> operator other than VF are very expensive.
> Best Regards...
> Ian
>
<snip top post>
>
>
But you could buy a 3 Oz Skype PAYG and Skype back to the UK
http://www.three.com.au/

Cheapest seems to be
SE G502 A$99
INQ Mini 3G A$129

Steve Terry
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From: Chris Kirby on 10 Mar 2010 03:07
Steve Terry wrote:

>>
>But you could buy a 3 Oz Skype PAYG and Skype back to the UK
>http://www.three.com.au/
>

Will a Aussie PAYG SIM on 3 work in a UK supplied S2 phone?

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Chris
From: Ian on 10 Mar 2010 04:23
In message <hn652m$fq8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Steve Terry
<gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> writes
>"Ian" <nospam(a)nospam.wolvertonrail.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:siKPWIh7$mlLFw5L(a)amicro.co.uk...
>> When I visited Australia late last year, I put a telstra mobile SIM in my
>> UK mobile and used an Australian skype call through number to regularly
>> call back to the UK. The Australia part of the call came out of the
>> inclusive telstra minutes and the Skype part out of the monthly
>> subscription (which could have been PAYG if I'd have so chosen). The call
>> quality was excellent. I also have the Fring skype client on the mobile &
>> could have used that instead but the call quality was awful..
>>
>> Being "belt-and-braces", I also had a UK VF SIM with VF passport (75p
>> connection charge) as backup but did not use it. Since the demise of
>> 3-like-home, the roaming costs of calling back to the UK using any UK
>> operator other than VF are very expensive.
>> Best Regards...
>> Ian
>>
><snip top post>
>>
>>
>But you could buy a 3 Oz Skype PAYG and Skype back to the UK
>http://www.three.com.au/

I do not agree. There was a very good reason for me using a telstra SIM.
The coverage is far, far superior to 3 which is not very good. I know
because I have been there before with a 3 SIM, both UK contract (the
erstwhile 3-like-home service) and a local 3 SIM.

I reconsidered all the options available to me (telstra, optus, 3,
virgin etc) as well as using Vodafone UK. The killer for the latter is
the data charges when roaming otherwise the passport scheme is a good
idea if you are not making/receiving many calls. It would have been
excellent if I had travelled to Australia last summer when the passport
connection was free. But there would still have been the data charge
problem.

Before I went this last time, I had a telstra SIM shipped to me in the
UK.What I did was to top it up with �57 (AU$100) to give me 500mins/500
texts to Australian numbers then used AU$79 of that top up to buy 750MB
of data for the month. I would have bought the data anyway. So
effectively the calls cost me AU$21 for 500 minutes. The down side is
that any balance you have left at the end of the month is lost unless
you convert it to one of their long-life extensions.

AFAIAA, 3 Australia and Vodafone have now merged. Aussies friends say VF
have taken over 3. They reckon it's for the better. I have no opinion, I
just want something that works reliably. Australia is a very, very big
place!

Ian



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From: Unimobiles.com on 10 Mar 2010 05:24
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:38:29 -0000, "Mr X" <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote:

>What's the cheapest way to do this? Vodafone charges 75p connection, but
>won't apply Vodafone family.

Not the cheapest, but easiest

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220513062340

Put $79 AUD (�48) on the card and you get Up to 478 minutes of calls
or Up to 1300 texts back to UK.

If you don't need that much talk, put $49 (�30) on the card and get Up
to 250 minutes of calls or Up to 680 texts back to UK.

Cheaper option would be using payphones with this Telstra calling card
http://www.saygdaycallingcard.com


I don't envy you travelling there now, with the UK Currency trashed as
it is. You will find it quite expensive.

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From: Steve Terry on 11 Mar 2010 10:57
"Chris Kirby" <g4fzn(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Steve Terry wrote:
>
>>But you could buy a 3 Oz Skype PAYG and Skype back to the UK
>>http://www.three.com.au/
>
> Will a Aussie PAYG SIM on 3 work in a UK supplied S2 phone?
> Chris
>
>
I doubt it unless you change the settings to call the Oz Skype node,
might work might not.

Simpler to buy a Oz 3 Skype phone
SE 502 is slightly cheaper there than here

Steve Terry
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