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  • 09-09-2013 2:31pm
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    rubberdungeon
    Registered Users Posts: 606 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this is the best place to ask or if I should have posted in 'Travel'

    My son is travelling to Tanzania (East Africa) as part of a school programme, he is a secondary school student.

    He is a PAYG customer with Vodafone.

    I'd be grateful if anyone could help with the following.

    What is the most economical way for him to stay in touch with home?

    He would want to receive texts from home and be able to reply.

    Calls are not important, internet would be nice but not sure it will be possible.

    Thanks very much


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    nava
    Registered Users Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    rubberdungeon wrote: »
    Not sure if this is the best place to ask or if I should have posted in 'Travel'

    My son is travelling to Tanzania (East Africa) as part of a school programme, he is a secondary school student.

    He is a PAYG customer with Vodafone.

    I'd be grateful if anyone could help with the following.

    What is the most economical way for him to stay in touch with home?

    He would want to receive texts from home and be able to reply.

    Calls are not important, internet would be nice but not sure it will be possible.

    Thanks very much


    Roaming rates are here it's free to receive txt, if he has internet access he can send webstext to reply to the text received, data is very expensive while roaming.

    If he has a smart phone he can try installing whatsapp to chat for free with friends that use whatsapp or with viber he can chat/call other viber users for free (he will need internet access (wifi or data) to use them)


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