quick abroad question

[vickihenderson]

Right am posting this on behalf of my sister

her bf is going to balgaria on sat for two weeks and hes on orange

and my sister is in the uk and on vodafone

if she calls him wil she be charged normal uk vodafone rates
if she texts him will shebe charged normal uk vodafone rates

if he calls her will she be charged for the call on her mobile as well as himself being charged

both are on contact

he is orange and shes on vodafone

[Dio]

Exact rates

[knightmaric]

No no he won't have to pay roaming charges.
Orange have listed on their website that they have abolished those charges aswell =]

[Dio]

Does that mean that his calls from Bulgaria to UK will cost the same as if he were in UK?

[codemonkey]

Vodafone have abolished romaing charges duringthe summer too

source (http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=templateBlank&pageID=OS_0099&WT.srch=1)

[knightmaric]

No matter where you are in the world, all calls and texts will be the standard UK rate =]
That's what i'm led to believe anyway.
I'll put it to the test in september when i'm off to spain :P

[Helior]

No matter where you are in the world, all calls and texts will be the standard UK rate =]
That's what i'm led to believe anyway.
I'll put it to the test in september when i'm off to spain :P

nooooo, i wish that were true :o

They've gotten rid of roaming so its no longer possible to have standard UK charged calls abroad at all, all calls will be at international rates. They have dramatically dropped international rates to compensate for this.

[knightmaric]

Well that's not too bad then =]
What about the people on contract phones?

[Helior]

The problem was that roaming was restricted to a specific sister network in another country and a lot of people didn't understand how it worked so they would use the wrong network or when they'd lose service the phone would jump onto a new network. People ended up thinking they were using contract minutes but were actually on the wrong network racking up huge bills. They've simplified the whole thing with much more reasonable internation rates and no roaming. It sucks for those of us who aren't stupid but i can understand the reasoning!

[m27try]

go to the moneysavingexpert site, and type in vodaphone abroad, theres apparently a something that you can do to get cheap calls