Expensive phone calls..

[gaz_l]

My step-daughter is in transit back from Australia to the UK. She's currently on a 2 hour layover in Abu Dhabi.

My wife has been talking to her on the phone, to step-daughter's Australian cell phone which is currently roaming.

Can anyone think of a more expensive way of holding a conversation? Perhaps you have a friend on the ISS, or roaming on a sat phone somewhere in the Amazon basin..

Cheers,

Gaz

 

[wemorgan]

Satellite phone on top of Mt Everest?

£££ for the phone call and ££££ for getting to the top of the mountain.

BTW Vodaphone Passport worked well for my sister when she was travelling.

Vodafone Going Abroad

 

[Gridlock]

I saw a guy on another forum recently who went abroad with his shiny new phone and came home to a bill somewhere north of £1600...

Don't set your phone to check your email every 5 seconds (literally!) and then go abroad...

 

[Chrishazle]

To save money on long distance calls, have a look at www.0844calls.co.uk - would you believe it only cost us 1p/min to call our daughter on her Russian mobile when she was studying 2 hours south of Moscow a couple of years ago! We use it a lot for calls to Ireland, Spain, USA, Australia, Bahamas - both landline and mobiles.

 

[LTD]

Not as expensive as "Dad, I've bumped the car ......"

 

[Chrishazle]

Not as expensive as "Dad, I've bumped the car ......"

What about "Dad, boyfriend and I want (?have) to get married!! My pension fund has been quivering for quite a while waiting for that one from dear daughter!!

 

[NOODLES]

Go on the internet when you're in mainland Europe.Always good for an expensive laugh.

 

[LTD]

What about "Dad, boyfriend and I want (?have) to get married!! My pension fund has been quivering for quite a while waiting for that one from dear daughter!!

You only got the one daughter ?

Lucky you ............

 

[Chrishazle]

You only got the one daughter ?

Lucky you ............

The son made up for it - decided at short notice to get married - in South Africa! Try shopping for "mother of the groom" outfit in early December in UK when the wedding is top of summer time in South Africa (and less than a month away!) Then try getting flights for 3 (yes, he had to have his sister as one of the bridesmaids!) at short notice at that time of year...They alone cost over £4000. To add insult to injury, during the meal at the reception I'm told the bride's father will not be giving the traditional speech (family problems) so would I step in. I've already had a good sample of SA wines (father of groom, turn up, get pi****ed, go home!). Ah well, it was 10 years ago so I can (almost) laugh about it now.

 

[fuzzer]

ahhh .. my trusty skype wifi phone to the rescue

 

[WLeg]

I use a sat phone when I'm in the Delta (Nigeria) - $10.00 call setup, + $0.15 per second......but I'm not paying !

 

[swannymere]

Went to Oz in December/January for 3 weeks and forgot to switch off the 'push email' function on my iPhone! £400 and counting as it takes 3 months for all the bills to come in when you've been abroad. Funnily enough calls were not expensive but downloading my emails was, lesson learnt!

 

[dunker]

Expensive calls?? How about this for pound for pound value....NOT!!!

Wife rings me on my mobile from home for 20 minutes: £1.42
Wife rings friend in Virginia USA for 40 minutes: £1.26

I ring 118 SHAFT YOU for less than a minute: £1.00

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

Try calling from somewhere in the Pacific...

like Vanuatu
Your standard mobile phone call gets routed via Australia, USA, Greenland and then to blighty..or you could use a sat phone, plus it costs at least £1700 in economy to get there in the first place,

The worst bit.. it takes 39 hours to get there..how much does your own time cost you?

vanuatu - Google Maps

Of course all of these figures in this thread will change with the advent of Space flights with Mr Branson..

 

[219]

My OH rings her mum , her sister , her aunt , her best friend pretty much every night and tends to be on for between 30 mins to 1 hr per call .

I ring my mum , my sisters , my daughter maybe once a week and tend to be on for 5 mins , 10 mins , maybe 15 mins at a push .

What is it that women find to talk so much about ?????

 

[Gridlock]

What is it that women find to talk so much about ?????

Our failings?

 

[219]

our failings?

of which there are many ?

 

[Swozza]

One of our Directors put his SIM in his helicopter. He didn't even make the call, just received. 27 minutes long and was charged over £500.

 

[219]

One of our Directors put his SIM in his helicopter. He didn't even make the call, just received. 27 minutes long and was charged over £500.

Sorry , don't understand that one ?

 

[Gridlock]

Airwolf. Gotta be.