Code for cheap calls to U.K please.

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Ive lost the phone number that you use before dialing the country code and phone number to the U.K.,for very cheap calls.I would be really grateful if anyone can let me know. Thanks so much.

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+44

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Thanks..but its a number you dial before the 44.I had it for ages, but my mobile broke and i lost it.. Its about 8 digits long.

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TiMow, I spat coffee all ouva..

OP, try this helvatel.ch .

I have used it for years.

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Skype

Google hangouts

Facetime if you're apple inclined.

Why would anyone phone?

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Try here. good luck!

http://www.tieftarife.ch/rates.php#G

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I mentioned it on former threads: helvatel.ch, tieftarife.ch, budgettarife.ch, fuchstarife.ch, tieftarife.ch, schweiztel.ch, teleswiss.ch, 10787.ch, 10881.ch and maybe even a few more are all the same company. Interestingly, they offer their services at very different rates, e.g. Budgettarife CH -> USA at CHF 0.01 / min., Helvatel at CHF 0.04 / min., although the quality is the same on all channels, i.e. usable most of the time but totally crappy once in a while.

The only sign that shows they belong to the same bunch: They all share the same mail address in St. Gallen and the same VAT number. On the Internet, they all act as if they were different companies. Maybe they hope, once one of their branches has pi$$ed off customers, they will switch to another provider, which most likely belongs to the same background company, because they cover more than 80% of the Swiss market.

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I've been using Raptel for 5 years, access numbers in the link below. The one for the UK is 0840 722 722. Calls to landlines cost 0.02 p/minute.

http://www.raptel.ch/index2.php

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Looks like you nailed that one.

SG address is probably post restaurant (not for visitors), and all seemed to owned/operated by a Dutch holding company (Solaris Systems BV, Amsterdam, including Solaris Systems.co.uk)

However if it works for cheap calls, then no harm done.

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Correct, Solaris is the company behind them. And raptel.ch, mentioned above by Alemoa, is yet another company belonging to the same conglomerate.

The SG address is an office building just across the street from the city hall (Rathaus), actually a prime location with everything from labor union and law offices through retirement pension consulting to surgical practices and the dental practice of a kindergarten mate of mine, but no Solaris nor any other company that looks like it could be active in the telecommunication business.

Yes, it's cheap, and usually it works, although to the USA it sometimes doesn't work for weeks, and I've never gotten a reply to any of my e-mailed complaints. It's just weird that they pull off such a game of hide-and-seek. What are they concealing?

[In case my contributions to the forum abruptly stop in the near future, you folks know what to tell the police.]

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Is this the one? 10881 0044-208-1234567

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I don't know if 10881 is also a prefix, but 10881.ch is another one of these Solaris operations, as listed in greybeards post above.

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Because the people I phone don't even own a computer let alone have access to the Internet and Skype etc.

My mother was pretty tech savvy and we were able to Skype her but for most of my older relatives ( in their 80s and 90s ) it's an alien concept. Landline calls or snail mail are the only ways for me to keep in contact with these members of my family.

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I've got visions of office staff opening up pissed after a long lunch now.

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It was late and I was hungry ...... post restante

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I use Rebtel. It's marginally more expensive to call mobiles and you must maintain a credit account on their site but it's a proper thing with an app and what-not. You generate Rebtel numbers for your contacts that put you through directly.

To the UK you'll pay:

Landline 0.009 CHF/min

Mobile 0.140 CHF/min

SMS 0.056 CHF/min