Hi

are there any app,to reducing the cost of phoning the UK from Thailand on a UK mobile.

i need to phone my bank.

Depending on how long you want to talk for and if your UK mobile is unlocked just pop a Truemove Sim into phone and ring landlines in UK at 1 Baht a minute (plus vat).

If not just go into any travel agent (if open) who'll likely charge 10 baht a minute to UK landlines

Sign up to a Skype plan. I think its 6 dollars a month to ring UK landlines.

 

Check it out.

Skype, £1.20 gets you 30 minutes...if need more have varying packages...just rembee to cancel it if not intending to use again...Hope it's not Nationwide as they are impossible to get through to...yet First Direct pick up within a few seconds

This might be of use for you   http://www.skaip.org/call-rates/calculator   I have used Skype for many years … just buy £10 credit now and then … I pay using my UK bank Debit Card and as my registered address is here in Thailand there no VAT fee....

1 hour ago, Hindy said:

i need to phone my bank.

If it is only a singular need to call:

what provider do you use? (AIS, DTAC, True...)?

Each provider has some budget access to foreign countries.

Last time I looked in such topic is was about 5 or 6 Baht/minute to UK and other European countries.

Besided that there are kind of calling cards etc. Maybe someone knows the details.

Foocall app. You get 1.00 free credit and it lasts a long time.i called my bank on it for about an hour and still plenty credit left

Viber

Dual sim phone, 1 sim is the uk phone to receive, the other is Thai sim to phone UK.

 

That's the best way I have found over the years. If you knw its going to be a long call, tell them to phone you back.(on your Thai number)

 

 

6 hours ago, baansgr said:

Skype, £1.20 gets you 30 minutes

Skype is 2.3 cents per minute to UK, it says so at https://www.skype.com/en/international-calls/United Kingdom#

8 hours ago, Hindy said:

are there any app,to reducing the cost of phoning the UK from Thailand on a UK mobile.

i need to phone my bank.

What UK mobile company are you with?  PAYG or contract?

2 hours ago, MJKT2014 said:

Skype is 2.3 cents per minute to UK, it says so at https://www.skype.com/en/international-calls/United Kingdom#

Perhaps you would care to explain what was so hilarious about my earlier post in thread ??

Seeing as one off I actually used a travel agent in 2016 for 7 baht a minute for 2 minutes to a landline in the UK and its been 1 baht a minute via Truemove (to landlines) since at least 2013 I cannot for the life of me see the hilarity it caused you ??

I had to call my bank a week ago, unfortunately due to Corona they are limited 

to what they can do on the phone and have very few staff Manning the lines

 

I must have spent 4 hours or more listening to the intermittent messages to

use the online services before speaking to someone, this was Santander if that

makes any difference.

9 hours ago, baansgr said:

.just rembee to cancel it if not intending to use again

don't need to remember if you stick with PAYG top ups