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Meteor roaming or UK sim?

  • 01-02-2010 11:54am
    #1
    dragona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭


    I'm on Meteor bill pay and am going to UK on Thursday for a fortnight - friend has just posted out to me a UK Vodafone payg sim to put in my 2nd (unlocked) phone. It says *sim card not valid* Anyone know why that is? Have tried in four different phones.

    What I really want to know is what will be cheaper when I am there- to call Ireland cellphone from my Meteor phone, or a UK pay as you go sim??? I will also need to call UK mobiles when I am there - obviously! Thanks.


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  • #2
    MarkK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    dragona wrote: »
    What I really want to know is what will be cheaper when I am there- to call Ireland cellphone from my Meteor phone, or a UK pay as you go sim??? I will also need to call UK mobiles when I am there - obviously! Thanks.

    It will cost 75p/minute or more to call Ireland as standard with Vodafone, but you can add "Vodafone International" to your PAYG for free ,
    With this, it is just 5p/min to Irish Landlines, 15p/min to Irish mobiles, 20p/min to UK Landlines and Mobile.
    However texts to Irish numbers are 24p
    http://internationalcalls.vodafone.co.uk/

    Opt into Meteor cheap roaming deal with T-Mobile.
    http://roaming.meteor.ie/plans/roaming/payg/ukni.html
    Remember to select t-Mobile on your Meteor mobile, otherwise you may be charged for receiving calls.


  • #3
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    MarkK wrote: »
    Opt into Meteor cheap roaming deal with T-Mobile.
    http://roaming.meteor.ie/plans/roaming/payg/ukni.html
    Remember to select t-Mobile on your Meteor mobile, otherwise you may be charged for receiving calls.

    you don't have to opt in when on billpay OP, just manually select T-mobile on the handset

    prices here


  • #4
    dragona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    Thanks! I'm so confused though - will it be cheaper for a Meteor mobile (on bill pay) in Ireland to call me on my UK no or on my Meteor no??? As you can probably tell, I don't get out much:D


  • #5
    ardmacha
    Registered Users Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    Another Meteor number calling you may be free for them if they have free meteor to meteor calls and you are using the Meteor sim. If you are on T-Mobile and you've opted into the deal you won't be charged either. Otherwise you'll have to pay the roaming charge.


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