angie mccready

my hubby is off to UK next week and is taking his spanish mobile with him,
can anybody tell us if somebody rings him from UK to his spanish mobile will he be charged? thanx

bobd22

Yes I would think so as he will be roaming. I have a Spanish mobile and when I recieve a call on it in the UK it costs me. While I am on anyone else use Eroski Mobil as I noticed last time I was in Spain I could not send SMS from my Eroki mobile back to the UK? I could send to spanish mobiles. I used to be able to text UK what's changed? and anyone know how this can be rectified?

snikpoh

How does this work then (assuming he will be charged)?

For example, say I have a pay-as-you-go Spanish phone and am in UK but have run out of credit. If someone in UK then phones me, what happens? Is the call rejected as there is no credit on my phone?

Hmmmmmm....

lynnxa

I know whenever I used my UK mobile in Spain in the week or so before I switched to a Spanish one I paid to receive calls/texts

so I imagine it works the same the other way round?



the only definitive answer will come from the service provider - they all have different tariffs

angie mccready

hmm never thought of that lol, he's with vodafone and seems adamant that altho he had run out of credit last time he was there, he could still receive calls from english mobiles! im fed up of arguing with him now so hes just left to put 20 euros on it..another space to watch lol

JLFS

I have heard of someone with pay as you go, who received calls in the UK when they had no credit on the phone.

What happened was, when they topped up the balance, the cost of the received calles was immediately taken form the top up balance. So if you top up 20 euros for example, it can go down instantly because you were effectively in the red with the phone company.

HBG

My wife took both her and my Spanish mobiles to the UK three weeks ago and during her ten-day stay there called me almost every day, needless to say using my mobile. It only had 20 Euros in credit when she left and appears to still be in credit, although I haven’t checked.

I wondered why she had taken my mobile in the first place, but realised it just in time when I started dialling on the new Domo, the grass-up phone. It records every number you’ve ever dialled for a hundred years.

megmet

It's much less expensive to buy a uk sim card for use there... rather than the double charge he will pay for calls on his Spanish card while there.

petew

Best thing is to switch off your spanish mobile while you are in the U.K. and buy a U.K. p.a.y.g. phone. Or buy a U.K. sim and put it in your spanish phone (get it unlocked before you go).

pablosho

I think you have probably had all the best answers above and I know you said you are with Vodafone, so it's probably best to contact them but here are the charges for using Orange roaming in the UK.May be gives you an idea

To call Spain or EU 0.23 cents 1st minute and 0.46 cents per minute there after.
To receive calls 0.18 cents per minute and 0.13 cents to send or receive SMS