Quote Originally Posted by andypaul View Post
Well we have some test phones if you want us to find out?

Its a shame 3 don't have a sister company in phill as they now allow you to use the mintues you have on a contract in the other country. Also they have made the charges for connecting a call much lower. We are looking at using it for when we have to call italy which also has 3.

Hong kong is where the parent company is based and is one of the countries where the calls are very cheap it seems so might be worth looking at Rob.
If you could find out yeah, that would be great Andy. I just done some more digging, and call charges per minute call PAYG from Phils to UK are:

Vodafone £1.69 /Text 49p
02 - 99p for landlines and 02 phones, £1.49 for other UK mobile networks
TMob - £1.40 / Text 40p
Orange - not a chance, only Europe dear boy.

I'd imagine Virgin and BT Mobile will have same prices as TMobile as these use TMob's infrastructure.

I'm always weary about taking a contract mobile abroad - its easy to run up big bills, and if its lost or stolen, think of the hassle, especially in a remote part of the Philippines.

I did have a SmarTone Hong Kong simcard which was indeed very cheap and had international roaming as standard, but problem is it expires if you don't top up within 180 days, unlike UK networks. If I was travelling East more often, I would certainly get another HK mobile number.