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I know, you must be all fed up of it, but mobile tariffs still totally confuse me here

OK, I have an iPhone. I've got to get it re-unlocked shortly, but I want a tariff that isn't hugely expensive. I dont use the phone for calls that much, but I would like to retrieve my emails from time to time (I know I can use wifi connections if I am staying in a hotel) and a bit of browsing from time to time when I am away.

I dont really care who I use, but probably vodaphone or Orange would be my main choice.

Any ideas to help this befuddled mind?

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Sorry Mitzy cannot help, we are with Orange on PAYG but never have the phones switched on except when I am in hospital.

Graham

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Take a look at:

www.masmovil.es

Web and customer service in English if you need it, and it is on the orange network.

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Thanks
Do you use this? Is it OK?

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A point to note is that if you wish to use VOIP such as Skype then many providers block this.

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Yes I use it and I use skype on it, but better without the video because it occasionally breaks up, and also costs more if you are on PAYG, no problem on voice chat at all for me up to now.

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Ahh well. Signed up with them on Saturday. Didn't get an email confirmation as they stated. Can't sign on to the client area with the password they gave, and on the first try so far the phone wasn't answered

I'll try again later

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would be very interested to know if anyone else has info on this masmovil.es, would very much like to reduce our mobile phone bills!! :)

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I spoke to them now and they were very helpful. I need to send copies of bank statement and passport before they will send out a sim card unfortunately. The rates are very good

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Forget it fo you want cheap comm's in Spain, it simply don't exsist here.

Skypes your best bet and use your mobile phone simply for incoming or incase you have a breakdown,......I do:starsmile:

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Well I need to access my emails when I'm out and about. 300 mb download on the phone and the relatively cheap calls means I wont pay more than about €15 a month for it, which doesnt seem bad to me.

Skype I use, but I have a phone box now that means that a call via internet to the UK costs me just 1p a minute and I dont have to worry about the crap connection on skype which happens when you only have a small internet connection

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We have no landline in Spain, but use a Vodafone PAYG mobile on their AmiAire tariff (can make national calls of up to 90 minutes and pay for only 1 minute after 6pm and at weekends, with a connection charge of around 70 centimos - I think (OH sorts it all out). Then we use Voipcheap to make international calls to the UK, whereby we ring a Madrid number, enter the UK phone number we want to ring, and that counts as a national call so we can talk for 90 minutes for under 80 centimos.

We have to put at least 15€ worth of credit on the phone per month to keep the tariff active, and we have such trouble using it up that we keep offering to let people we know ring the UK on our phone just to get rid of it!

I have another PAYG mobile on the basic Vodafone tariff for the odd local call we might want to make, and I don't think I put more than 10€ a year on that.

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Well, unfortunately after at least a week and a half I'm still here waiting for my SIM card to come from Masmovil.

To be fair to them it does seem to be a courier problem, but all the same it's very annoying as I have been without a mobile now for several weeks

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I would be interested to know which courier that is.

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and yet the Spanish seem to be always on their mobiles. Perhaps we're missing a trick here?

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My thoughts exactly, even the kids use theirs more than I can.

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So would I
Suffice it to say its a courier that isnt doing much for Masmovils reputation at the moment

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I am paying 3 cents a min with Masmovil I don't think thats bad, its 35 cents a min on my movistar movil:(

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Vodafone talk for 90 mins pay for one tariff, probable what all the kids use. ;);)

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Plus the connection charge ;)

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Its been 10 days or so now.

Last night I had a call at 5.30 telling me it would be with me in 5 minutes. I'm still waiting 16 hours later!

I have almost lost hope to be honest.

I have called them about 7 times, sent three emails. They are very polite and seem to be trying to help, but the net result is nothing. I am no further forward than I was 1o days ago

I'm sure that it might be a good service as regards the calls from what I hear, but their system seems incapable of getting a simple sim card to me.

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What you're missing is that the Spanish are making national calls which are cheap or even free? depending which company/contract you've got. In any case, calling the UK on a mobile is expensive to the point that I'd only do it in an emergency. I use a landline for international calls.

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I have an internet phone co system where the box is plugged into the router and I use a normal phone to make calls, so only pay 1 p a minute for calls to the UK, and nothing to call people who are on the same system as I (and I have a UK telephone number). Also theres SKYPE

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That sounds interesting. I'll have to look into this phone set up a bit more. I do use logitech for internet video conferences, which normally works ok.

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Can you tell us some more - what system and with which supplier.

Thanks

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I sent a message to them asking if they will do you a deal, I'll let you know :D


As far as Masmovil are concerned, I received my SIM yesterday ... well, actually I drove to the couriers premises in Gandia to get it.

Stuck it in the phone and after a few tweaks it is working perfectly.
I'm quite pleased that you can go onto your own section on the web site and change many things regarding your account and phone settings.
The staff there have been fine all the way through, it was really just the courier who messed things up. He must have an aversion to coming up our mountain

So far therefore, good reports re masmovil

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If you use a system such as Voipcheap for calling the UK on your mobile, as I said earlier in this thread, it isn't expensive at all. Obviously more expensive to call a UK mobile than a landline, but still by no means prohibitive. We have to put 15€ per month on our Vodafone PAYG to keep the Talk for 90, Pay for 1 tariff active, and find we can't use it all up. We have no landline, therefore no line rental to pay.

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Was it UPS by any chance?

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No, Nasver or something like that ..... although I have been screwed over by DHL before as well