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uk phone number in spain?

Postby julian » Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:36 pm

anyone using one of these UK phone number in Spain thingys?........we´ve been using a tesco internet phone, that has a uk number, to receive and make calls, but having bought the phone from tesco, suddenly tesco have decided in their wisdom to no longer offer the service :? :? :?

so now we have to find another system..anyone tried vonage, or anything similar?
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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby murbisa » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:33 pm

I had a UK number on skype for a couple of years but haven't renewed it this year as they want about £50 now - not worth it. I have an English mobile on contract with vodafone and use vodafone passport at 75p a call. All my friends are on messenger so we chat away on there these days.

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Postby alisonb » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:20 pm

We use a company called TTNC to provide a Manchester phone number. Only for elderly mum really. There's a one off charge of £25. It goes directly through to my Spanish mobile, which then costs me 12c per minute, so I usually ring people in UK straight back with Voipcheap. We''ve had it about 3 years now, and it works well.
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Postby Kamila » Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:40 pm

Hi Julian, we have got "UK phone number in Spain thingys". It is Vonage and we are delighted with it. We pay £5.99 a month and can make as many calls a month as we like. It is good for our family and friends as they can call us without paying a lot for their calls.

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Postby El Cid » Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:43 pm

You can get a free UK in Spain number from

http://www.ukxpat.com/

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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby alisonb » Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:00 pm

Sid - I've had a look at your link, but it looks to me that if someone wants to ring Spanish mobile from UK, it will cost them 23p per minute. With the number I have, I only pay 12c per minute, and they just pay cost of a local call. Suppose it depends how much you use it
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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby julian » Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:04 pm

thanx everyone, vonage looks good

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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby El Cid » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:36 pm

alisonb wrote:Sid - I've had a look at your link, but it looks to me that if someone wants to ring Spanish mobile from UK, it will cost them 23p per minute. With the number I have, I only pay 12c per minute, and they just pay cost of a local call. Suppose it depends how much you use it
You get a UK number which connects to your Spanish land line for 3p/minute. You pay nothing to receive the call. That's what we are talking about here.

Calls to mobiles will always be more.

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Postby casita-bonita » Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:16 am

We use Vonage for our UK number. We subscribed back in the UK and brought the adapter over with us. However you can now subscribe to Vonage in Spain, and still get a UK number.

We've had it for a couple of years and has worked faultlessly throughout that time.
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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby julian » Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:18 am

has anyone tried this to call from spain to UK ?

http://www.0044.co.uk/Landline/Cheap-Ca ... .asp?To=UK

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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby Enrique » Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:48 am

Hi Julian,
I use this one..................

"How does your service compare to Dialabroad Spain?
Our 901 900 499 service is 50% cheaper since they use a 902 number which is charged by Telefonica at: 4.03c/min off-peak and 6.73c/min peak plus a connection charge of 8c."

So your one looks to be a better deal :D

Still "cheaper" is PC to PC using Skype or MSN..............free :D ...... plus webcam if you have one.


Thanks for posting 8)
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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby spanish_lad » Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:48 am

my nan gets free calls to europe with BT i think, i´ll have to find out how.
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Re: uk phone number in spain?

Postby concorde » Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:20 pm

From the U.K. we always use Dialwise
http://www.dialwise.co.uk/index2.php

0.5p per minute to Spain from landline to landline
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