Roaming in NZ - any useful UK contracts?

[David]

Firstly, I have started looking at various review sites, and one of the
first recommended Three SIMs (new) for roaming in about 71 countries.

3 itself says "If you joined Three or upgraded on or after 1 October 2021,
you'll need to pay a daily charge of £5 to unlock your UK allowance for 24
hours' use in New Zealand.* Review your Spend Cap before leaving the UK to
ensure you can pay for this."

Bastards - we have roamed all over the world with 3 and not been charged
before.

So review sites are doubtful.

Hopefully someone here can recommend?

We have SIMs from 3, Tesco, EE, Plusnet.
[2 phones (1 dual SIM), and a tablet.]

Main phones (long term numbers) are 3 and Tesco.

I expect we will end up getting local SIMs in NZ.
Is there a way to forward your calls from your UK number to the local
number in NZ?
Or will we have to pay a charge, say every 2 weeks, to pick up outstanding
voice mail?

7 years since we last travelled, so well out of date.

Cheers



Dave R



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[Mark Carver]

On 16/10/2022 16:07, David wrote:
> Firstly, I have started looking at various review sites, and one of the
> first recommended Three SIMs (new) for roaming in about 71 countries.
>
> 3 itself says "If you joined Three or upgraded on or after 1 October 2021,
> you'll need to pay a daily charge of £5 to unlock your UK allowance for 24
> hours' use in New Zealand.* Review your Spend Cap before leaving the UK to
> ensure you can pay for this."
>
> Bastards - we have roamed all over the world with 3 and not been charged
> before.
>
> So review sites are doubtful.
>
> Hopefully someone here can recommend?
>
> We have SIMs from 3, Tesco, EE, Plusnet.
> [2 phones (1 dual SIM), and a tablet.]
>
> Main phones (long term numbers) are 3 and Tesco.
>
> I expect we will end up getting local SIMs in NZ.
> Is there a way to forward your calls from your UK number to the local
> number in NZ?

You can, but you'll be charged the UK to NZ rate for every diverted call
that you answer

Sky Mobile's 'Roaming Passport' includes NZ for 2 quid a day (same as an
EU country)

[Mark]

On 16/10/2022 16:07, David wrote:

Assuming it's voicemail messages arising from calls from your UK mobiles
(and it's been a while since I tried it) but I think it is possible to
set a permanent call divert on a 3 PAYG SIM. Try it for yourself on your
own 3 SIM.

If forwarding works, you could sign up for a VOIP service and either set
an addtional call-forward from *that* service to a local NZ mobile (once
you know the number), or access any voicemail messages from calls
(originally destined for your mobile) via the VOIP service web interface.

If you are expecting a lot of calls you should opt for VOIP service with
an assigned UK geographic number, to minimise the cost of the diverted
mobile calls to VOIP:
e.g.
https://www.sipgate.co.uk/sipgate-starter
or VOIPfone with an add-on geo number: https://www.voipfone.co.uk

If you do want the calls to be routed to a NZ mobile number you could
then forward the VOIP service to it - it will cost you about 12p minute.

BTW, I have a PlusNet SIM and unconditional call forwarding doesn't work
for me, even though the service and phone suggest it is correctly set
(!) Calls to the so-called forwarded phone instead receive NU tone.

EE, Tesco - no idea, sorry.

[notya...@gmail.com]

Get yourself a Voipfone account [and a UK number on it], connect via Wi-Fi. Calls to NZ landlines 2p mobile 12p. Callers can ring back.

Also look up https://www.o2.co.uk/international/travel-inclusive-zone