Orange Roaming costs - ouch !

[Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk]

A quick look at Google suggests it has been discussed before but just to
confirm what I have just read on the Orange web site with regard roaming
charges - a call whilst in Spain or Greece (OVP Virgin) would be 60p per
min regardless of whether it was back to the UK or down the road to call
a local taxi ?

Ouch ! No wonder you use a calling card Steve Terry :-)

[Ben]

Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk enlightened us with:

About 34p for me, last tie I checked, I think it depends heavily on the
tariff.

Haven't they just "simplified" (read increased) their charging structure?

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string...

[Ben]

Ben enlightened us with:

Sorry, missed the OVP virgin bit.

http://www.virginmobile.com/mobile/services/intl_roaming.php

Not working at the mo though...

[Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk]

Ben wrote:

> About 34p for me, last tie I checked, I think it depends heavily on the
> tariff.
>
> Haven't they just "simplified" (read increased) their charging structure?

It would appear they did - to 60p per min anytime anywhere with no
differencial between an internatioonal or local (whlst roaming) call.

[Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk]

Ben wrote:

> Sorry, missed the OVP virgin bit.

With an OVP tariff it would appar they are matched when calling overseas
from the UK and receiving a call when overseas. Making a call whilst
overseas is at the Orange tariff though - 60p in the case of
Spain/Greece.

If you are on O PATG the "simple" roaming tariff is double at 120p per
min !

[Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk]

John Temperley wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:02:05 +0100, someone purporting to be
> Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
>
> >I have just read on the Orange web site with regard roaming
> >charges - a call whilst in Spain or Greece (OVP Virgin) would be 60p per
> >min regardless of whether it was back to the UK or down the road to call
> >a local taxi ?
>

> Correct ... and if you were calling a friend, who was also on Orange
> and travelling with you (but separated and trying to meet-up) then
> friend would also be charged 30p incoming, so a total of 90p/min for
> local call.
>
> However if you were on Virgin (the real one), you could make Off Peak
> local calls for just:
> France Bouygues Telecom 23p/min
> Greece STET HELLAS 23p/min
> Spain Telefonica 22p/min

Ex VAT ?

These are comparable albeit a little better to the rates for T-Mobile
contract. Both also seem pretty comparable with the local (for Greece)
Panafan or Teleset(Voda) PAYT tariff which seems to be about
.49Euro/30p. Spanish PATY much better, calling cards I don't know.

[Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk]

Sp...@freebies4me.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

> These are comparable albeit a little better to the rates for T-Mobile
> contract. Both also seem pretty comparable with the local (for Greece)
> Panafan or Teleset(Voda) PAYT tariff which seems to be about
> .49Euro/30p. Spanish PATY much better, calling cards I don't know.

That should of course have been Panafon (Vodafone) and Telestet.

[Stuart G. Friedman]

Get Boomerang call back. Since incoming calls are 30p a minute, and
Boomerang charges 9p a minute to call most places in Western Europe and
North America, you'd be paying 39p a minute. While these are not great
rates, they are significantly better than the other rates.

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