- the international dialling prefix of the country you're IN (I think 00 for both UK and France) - the international dialling code of their HOME country (44 for UK)
So in this case "00447777 77777". I think that's how it worked when I was abroad, but it may have changed.
(Note also that this means that, I think, it will cost the same amount for you as phoning them in the UK from France, but may be more expensive for them if they have to pay to receive calls -- I don't know if that is normally in roaming plans or not.)
Aha, cunning, thank you for all this :) Apparently my rate is 38p/min to make calls and 14p/min to receive, so I definitely won't be using it too much :)
I'm starting to think this wasn't such a stupid question after all, what with the various replies :)
(Oh yes, I rounded to the nearest 5p, I didn't think that would make a difference to your using it. If you WANT to use it, you may be able to buy minutes at a better rate in advance -- I don't know. I think rachel normally uses a card with a magic number on which gives her cheap international calls from a landline when she dials it, but I don't know about it.)
I'm starting to think this wasn't such a stupid question after all, what with the various replies :)
No, telecomms are deliberately complicated :) I still want to show you how to do simple calculations like "time to solve a combination lock" though: maybe one never does need them, but I can't help but think it's satisfying to have it at your fingertips.
Oh yes. Come to think of it, I never did have to change any of the preset numbers in my phone, so I don't know if they were "44" already or not. I assumed if not my phone figured out that that's probably what I meant by default, but possibly the phone company did.
(PS I judge from "allegedly set up to be able to use it in France" you rang someone up and they turned on the international feature? But I'm just checking because I was confused, because I think my phone said something like it was "ready" to be used abroad, but that meant that it was POSSIBLE but you had to actually get someone to enable it before you did, when they check you know that it may be expensive and may not work in some countries. Although in fact, I used it in Europe and it did always just work and even sent me little welcome messages when I entered the country!)
Well, I went through the automatic steps to set up your phone using their IVR system, but I remain unconvinced because I did this last time and I couldn't get anything to work - except that I got the T France welcome message. Hmm. I think I might ring up customer service type people to check.
You just dial their number and the network will sort out routing the call. In your example their number is a UK one, so dialling code is 44.
The easiest way is to just use "+" when dialling (e.g. dial +447777777777), which automatically sorts out the various international dialling conventions (00 prefix in Europe, 011 in the US). If you travel a lot, it's worth saving people's numbers as + in the phone book. That way it'll just work where ever you are.
Don't have anything to add to the mobile phone info, but just wanted to say, have a wonderful time in Paris! Is this your first time there? I can recommend a couple of awesome restaurants if you like soufflé. :D
How long are you going for? And I do hope to see you on the Robin Hood board when you get back (not to be a pest or anything, LOL). One of these days we must compare notes on RH and Xena!
Thank you! I've been to Paris once before, but hopefully I'll have a chance to explore the rive gauche this time, because everything was north of the river last time - I only ever seem to go for conferences! I'll only have one free day though, so I'll have to make the most of it :(
Will head over to the RH board as soon as I have some time :)
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- the international dialling prefix of the country you're IN (I think 00 for both UK and France)
- the international dialling code of their HOME country (44 for UK)
So in this case "00447777 77777". I think that's how it worked when I was abroad, but it may have changed.
(Note also that this means that, I think, it will cost the same amount for you as phoning them in the UK from France, but may be more expensive for them if they have to pay to receive calls -- I don't know if that is normally in roaming plans or not.)
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I'm starting to think this wasn't such a stupid question after all, what with the various replies :)
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I'm starting to think this wasn't such a stupid question after all, what with the various replies :)
No, telecomms are deliberately complicated :) I still want to show you how to do simple calculations like "time to solve a combination lock" though: maybe one never does need them, but I can't help but think it's satisfying to have it at your fingertips.
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I'd thought I'd need to do the former and accidentally sent a text out with the latter!
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The easiest way is to just use "+" when dialling (e.g. dial +447777777777), which automatically sorts out the various international dialling conventions (00 prefix in Europe, 011 in the US). If you travel a lot, it's worth saving people's numbers as + in the phone book. That way it'll just work where ever you are.
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How long are you going for? And I do hope to see you on the Robin Hood board when you get back (not to be a pest or anything, LOL). One of these days we must compare notes on RH and Xena!
Anyway, bon voyage!
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Will head over to the RH board as soon as I have some time :)
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