Cheap Overseas Dialing

[jonwilly]

Normall when I call abroad I use Skype.

The other day I out out and about and I needed to call my brother so I used my mobile.

B100 used up in less the 30 secs and the warning bleep went off.

I was using the dial 100 (USA).

A friend told me the system has changed and dialing 100 no longer works for a cheap call to UK.

Does anyone know if there is now an alternative No. one can use ?

john

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Yes, you use Skype, also when out and about. Or Google Talk, etc.

It's 2013, and WiFi and 3G internet are (almost) everywhere.

This particular Telco cash-cow is on it's very last legs, thank God.

[jackr]

Try pre-fixing with 9 (009?) to have it pop through the internet.

[hellodolly]

I use my mobile all the time as I don't have skype or a smart phone. I dial 0091 before calling North America and it works out to 5 baht a minute.

The nice part about being old is I can remember when it cost more than that to call from Vancouver

B C to Seattle Washington a distance of about 150 miles (240 kilometers)

Perhaps when I get a new computer I will hook up to skype but as is now it is so cheap I don't even bother to figure it in my budget.

[FolkGuitar]

The nice part about being old is I can remember when it cost more than that to call from Vancouver

B C to Seattle Washington a distance of about 150 miles (240 kilometers)

And you don't even have to shout into the phone any more!

[Thakkar]

hellodolly, on 15 Apr 2013 - 12:54, said:

I use my mobile all the time as I don't have skype or a smart phone. I dial 0091 before calling North America and it works out to 5 baht a minute.

The nice part about being old is I can remember when it cost more than that to call from Vancouver

B C to Seattle Washington a distance of about 150 miles (240 kilometers)

Perhaps when I get a new computer I will hook up to skype but as is now it is so cheap I don't even bother to figure it in my budget.

In the early Eighties, I found myself stuck on the Island of Ponape. It's the pleasantest stuck you can be, but only for the first few days. Then, it got really boring. I could get my hands on just one book, a 400 page tome on Super Tankers. I read it twice.

Spent hours drinking with and talking to an elderly gentleman who was involved in the laying of the first transpacific telecoms cable. I asked him how telephone calling rates were decided. He licked his finger and put it up in the air. They charged whatever they could get away with; distances didn't correlate with prices.

T

[muchogra]

I have a mobile number that enables me to call the continental US, and many Asian countries at B1.0 per minute. Look into that!

[rakchaingmai]

Whats the point of that post people are here to share knowledge let us into the secret of cheap phone calls 1.0B per minute.

[highonthai]

I have used a "True international" sim card in the past, and it's very reasonable to the UK and USA.

[muchogra]

Whats the point of that post people are here to share knowledge let us into the secret of cheap phone calls 1.0B per minute.

rakchiangmai, sorry that you think I might be deceiving people|

The fact of the matter is, I think, they do have some numbers available, from TRUE, that gives you that privilege like I said. Both my wife and I use them all the time at B1.0 a minute caling our children in the US!

Please inquire!

Edited April 15, 2013 by muchogra

[mania]

True Move Intersim

Been using it for many years always 1 baht per minute

You need to put 00600 in front of the number your calling

but easy enough once you set up your speed dial phone book

Buy these anywhere that sells phone cards & top up as needed

http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-Prepay.rails

PS: I never paid the higher rate for supposedly

better quality as the 00600 quality has always been fine to the USA

Edited April 15, 2013 by mania

[muchogra]

True Move Intersim

Been using it for many years always 1 baht per minute

You need to put 00600 in front of the number your calling

but easy enough once you set up your speed dial phone book

Buy these anywhere that sells phone cards & top up as needed

http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-Prepay.rails

PS: I never paid the higher rate for supposedly

better quality as the 00600 quality has always been fine to the USA

mania, thanks for suporting for what i alluded to!

Edited April 15, 2013 by muchogra

[hellodolly]

 

The nice part about being old is I can remember when it cost more than that to call from Vancouver

B C to Seattle Washington a distance of about 150 miles (240 kilometers)

And you don't even have to shout into the phone any more!

 

Careful you are giving us your age now.

Actually when I was young in North Seattle it was a long distance call for a call I tried to make to my home two miles away.

[elektrified]

Use the Zay Hi card. You can buy them at the Post Office. 43 satang/minute to Canada, 58 to China, 85 to France, 7 to Hong Kong, 5 to Singapore, 88 to the U.K., etc. Not all calls are cheap like 12 THB/minute to Myanmar and 17 THB to such places like the Marshall Islands or even 45 THB to Cuba but most are cheap. Quality is superb. Like the person you are calling is in the next room. A couple of times I called my aunt in Spain using a friends mobile with True Intersim. We could barely communicate the quality was so poor. Even the people at True told me when I went in to see if there was a problem, that the quality was not very good.

You call a local number, hang up, and the computer calls you right back so you are only charged 1 minute for a local call.

http://www.zayhi.com/

Edited April 15, 2013 by elektrified

[tango]

True Move Intersim

Been using it for many years always 1 baht per minute

You need to put 00600 in front of the number your calling

but easy enough once you set up your speed dial phone book

Buy these anywhere that sells phone cards & top up as needed

http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-Prepay.rails

PS: I never paid the higher rate for supposedly

better quality as the 00600 quality has always been fine to the USA

mania, thanks for suporting for what i alluded to!

So why the allusion... whatz with the games?