Oldworldtraveller 2222 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 What has prompted this thread, simple. I am with O2 and have been for a number of years. I have a 'bolt on' called O2 Travel as I spend a great deal of time overseas. This allowed me in Europe to make and receive calls at 50p each and gave me an hours talk time. Text's 5p to send free to receive and data at £1.99 as day. The latter however I never use as wi-fi is usually available. Yesterday I received an email informing me that from the 7th April there would be a data charge of £1.99 per day including calls, texts and all data. I spoke with O2 and confirmed that even if I only sent one text that would incur the daily charge of £1.99. I have now opted out of this. Who are you with and is it cheaper. Captain Kidd II 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cruise chef 865 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Great question OWT, not sure of the best answer on this one, I know 3 offers DATA ROAMING in quite a few Euro countries and some of them also offer bundles for use abroad. Maybe one of our forum members works for a phone company and can enlighten us further. A lot of people certainly forget to active the abroad part of their contract and this can mean quite hefty call costs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cruise chef 865 Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 found this link hope is helps http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-roaming-calls pennbank 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oldworldtraveller 2222 Posted March 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Thanks cruise chef. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Solent Richard Posted March 11, 2016 Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 What has prompted this thread, simple. I am with O2 and have been for a number of years. I have a 'bolt on' called O2 Travel as I spend a great deal of time overseas. This allowed me in Europe to make and receive calls at 50p each and gave me an hours talk time. Text's 5p to send free to receive and data at £1.99 as day. The latter however I never use as wi-fi is usually available. Yesterday I received an email informing me that from the 7th April there would be a data charge of £1.99 per day including calls, texts and all data. I spoke with O2 and confirmed that even if I only sent one text that would incur the daily charge of £1.99. I have now opted out of this. Who are you with and is it cheaper. Hi OWT. I was with O2 till last December when I migrated to BT. I used to use the O2 system on odd occasions but generally either purchase a ship's package for when out of range or use Wifi when staying in Hotels abroad. On my recent cruise in Myanmar I picked up an amazing local deal. Bought locally a Sim which had 500 Mb data and 17 hours talk time pre loaded all for 4,500 Myanmar Kyats. What's more it didn't matter where we were along the river, even in the remotest parts I could get online. Come on you mathematicians, is that good value? It certainly beat Fred Olsen's prices if rumour is to be believed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oldworldtraveller 2222 Posted March 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 That sounds like a very good deal. When in Egypt and Bulgaria I have phones with local SIM cards for those countries. It is when in France, Spain, Greece etc. that I am looking for a network that is better value than O2. As for Fred Olsen, I was at their launch this week and asked about wi-fi costs and was told they haven't been finalised yet but will be competitive with other cruise lines. I will wait and see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oldworldtraveller 2222 Posted August 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 As an update to this thread. Having taken off the 'O2 Travel' bolt on and reverted to the system of pay as you go for overseas I have now learned that with O2 if I phone an O2 phone in Europe I do so free of charge to both parties and if I phone from Europe to the UK it just comes off my calls package. It therefore seems that to have come off the 'Bolt On' is a win, win situation. sammy sun 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cruise chef 865 Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Thanks for the update OWT as a fellow O2 user I now know what to do, its not very often we pick the right operator but in this case it looks like a win win!!!!! Oldworldtraveller 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MG16 149 Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 EE now have in most of their contracts free texts and calls to any other number in Europe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sammy sun 1084 Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 EE now have in most of their contracts free texts and calls to any other number in Europe That's good to hear as I am currently considering switching to EE when my contract expires later this year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loz6 136 Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 EE now have in most of their contracts free texts and calls to any other number in Europe I have this within my contract with EE, I have never been over charged or come home to a terrible bill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sinbad10 757 Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 This thread was 4 yrs ago so not really current. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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