mobile phone-sim cards

[lady vsters]

Hi,

can anyone give me advice on the best payg sim cards to buy in particular to call and text back to the UK? I will be in Melbourne . I I imagine I will use it frequently particulary to send texts back to the UK.

Even any advice on best websites for deals or networks

Thanks!!!

x

[koala12]

Hi - I have a pay as you go Optus sim and although I don't use it very often to call UK I do text and they cost 55 cents.

[Stuju]

The pay as you go is expensive here and you loose the credit if any left after a month with most of them,
I use skype to text the uk as it costs only a few cents - never text to the uk from our mobiles now to expensive

[tinbasher]

Hi we are on Virgin mobiles pay as you go, if I put $30 dollars on it expires after so many months (not sure how long) and the text messages are 35cent if I put $50 on then it lasts a year and the text messages are 25cent (even to the UK). It is not even that drastic to phone them from my mobile, which I have had to do a couple of times, I wasn't on long but it was only a couple of dollars.

Mrs TinB

[ali]

We brought our phones and just got a new sim card, we got a vodaphone one as my brother in brissy is on that network and calls are only 20c per min - so it's been great.

Ali

[ptlabs]

Originally Posted by ali

We brought our phones and just got a new sim card, we got a vodaphone one as my brother in brissy is on that network and calls are only 20c per min - so it's been great.

I thought Vodafone-to-Vodafone calls are about 20c per call?

Peter

[Stu:0]

We just got to vodafone sims off ebay £3.50 each and the deal looks ok.

Stu

[ali]

ptlabs - thank you for pointing out my mistake it is 20c per call

[ptlabs]

Originally Posted by Stu:0

We just got to vodafone sims off ebay £3.50 each and the deal looks

If I'm not mistaken, a brand new Vodafone SIM card costs A$2 here?

Peter