Your o2 number in england and topping up questions...

Hub · 05-10-2006 3:36pm #1

When I have my 086 number in the UK what does it become??

Im in london

Also do you need to have credit in it for people to ring you??

Cheers

chrislad · 05-10-2006 3:55pm

It stays the same. I think O2 charge 59c a minute to receive a call BUT they may have a roaming agreement now where it's free to receive calls for Pay as you Go customers. Best place to check would be the O2 website or ring their customer care.

Hub · 05-10-2006 4:04pm

Do a few digits not go before it??? like xxx86

Also I lost my english phone at the week end. This number is on my cv?

Is it possible to still use this number? its virgin

marcphisto · 05-10-2006 4:14pm

when ringing someone who is roaming you need the international access code and drop the preceeding 0.

In our case this is +353.

So to get 086 1234567 while they are abroad you need to dial +353 86 1234567

I've always found that you need to have credit in your phone to receive calls.

Hub · 05-10-2006 4:23pm

I know but what if this is in london and you want someone here to ring you?

marcphisto · 05-10-2006 5:01pm

it's the same number

+353 86 1234567

Urban Weigl · 05-10-2006 5:17pm

Um, if you're in London (or anywhere else for that matter), and you want someone in Ireland to ring you, they can just dial 086 xxx xxxx as they usually would. No need for any special codes.

If you want someone in London to ring you on your Irish mobile, they need to dial +353 86 xxx xxxx, just like if you were still in Ireland.

The only thing that is different is that if you're in London with your Irish O2 mobile, and you want to ring me in Ireland, you must dial the country code as well, you can't just dial 086 xxx xxxx you would usually do.

This is the only difference.

Understood?

Hub · 05-10-2006 7:02pm

doesnt work...

chrislad · 05-10-2006 8:07pm

It should work. To dial any Irish number from any landline or mobile, you put 00353 before it and drop the preceding 0. This is truncated to +353 on mobiles.

Eg.

To dial 01 1234567, you would dial on a landline, 00353 1 1234567. Sames goes for mobiles. Don't bother with the +, just use 00

Random · 05-10-2006 11:02pm

marcphisto wrote:

when ringing someone who is roaming you need the international access code and drop the preceeding 0.

In our case this is +353.

So to get 086 1234567 while they are abroad you need to dial +353 86 1234567

I've always found that you need to have credit in your phone to receive calls.

You don't need to put any country codes on someones phone number to ring them when they are roaming but you're back home in Ireland.