Vodafone's 15c charge for mobile redirects

lotas

Good morning.

this is a bit of a weird one, but i will ask anyway. My car has a built in phone (handset, hands free, and steering wheel controls). I have been told it will cost about a grand to replace it with a proper bluetooth kit that talks directly to the car (not the little small ones, which cost about 100 quid. this uses steering wheel controls and displays stuff on the screen in the car).

anyway, as a work around, i have been adviced to stick a Pay as you go sim in the car, and redirect all calls to it from my main phone when i get in...

This works, but Voda are charging 15c per redirect. Do any other network do this? Can this be removed? it made about 30 redirects last month, and i only used it for about 10 days... at that rate, i could double my phone bill in a month!

Thanks

jesus_thats_gre

I used to have an O2 bill phone about 7 or 8 years ago. For a week or two, I had it diverted to a Vodafone number that I had to use for whatever reason. For every call that was diverted, I was billed for an off net call for however long the phone call lasted. Ended up with a phone bill of something like 300 euro.

helimachoptor

Its because of termination charges that other networks charge for carrying calls on their own network.

So if you ring vodafone to vodafone no termination charges.

If you ring vf to o2, o2 will charge vf for carrying that call.

By charging you the 15 per call they get to make some money on this service.

Doctor DooM

Although I only have experience first hand with O2, I believe this is standard.

lotas

So, o2 charge a LOT more then... hmmm. been a Voda customer for about 10 years now (even before they where voda) and i dont want to move, but this is starting to make me want to look around. And with O2 and their nice data plans, i am edging more over there...

_Kaiser_

lotas wrote: »

Good morning.

this is a bit of a weird one, but i will ask anyway. My car has a built in phone (handset, hands free, and steering wheel controls). I have been told it will cost about a grand to replace it with a proper bluetooth kit that talks directly to the car (not the little small ones, which cost about 100 quid. this uses steering wheel controls and displays stuff on the screen in the car).

anyway, as a work around, i have been adviced to stick a Pay as you go sim in the car, and redirect all calls to it from my main phone when i get in...

This works, but Voda are charging 15c per redirect. Do any other network do this? Can this be removed? it made about 30 redirects last month, and i only used it for about 10 days... at that rate, i could double my phone bill in a month!

Thanks

Why will it work with one sim but not the other? Is it an old sim maybe in which case can the network not simply give you a new one and copy your info to it?

lotas

the car works with both sims, but its a pain to be pulling the sim out of my main phone, sticking it in the car, and the putting it back in... easier to just redirect, but expencive.

Guy:Incognito

Have networks not started offering a sevice to provide 2 sims for just these types of reasons? I thought it was in the pipeline a while back.

lotas

I was told by the guy in the voda store and in customer care that i cant get 2 sims with the same number, because it causes problems with the network (or something)... Pity. would make my life a lot easier...