Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Telephones, Broadband and Mobiles => Topic started by: june on October 06, 2005, 17:24:52 PM
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When we were over last week I got a Turkcell Sim card and the 100 free units and they sorted my phone so that it would accept the sim card which is fine.
I know how many units it takes for a text and a phone call to the UK and in Turkey, but does anyone know how much the cost is if someone from the UK:-
Rings from a landline in the UK to my Turkcell number.
Texts me from a UK mobile to my Turkcell number.
I just don't want it to cost a fortune if one of my sons need to get hold of me whilst we are Calis.
Thanks in anticipation.
June :)
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My husband rings his family in Turkey all the time. The lowest price we have managed to get is with Bestminutes - 1p to landlines and 4p to mobiles.
You need to be on BT Option 1.
You dial 0844 861 4848 followed by your Turkish landline number (including 0090)or 0844 428 3232 followed by your Tuskish mobile number (again including 0090)
Hope this info helps
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Thanks very much for that Janet.
LOL
June
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Hi Janet,
Just to say many thanks again for letting me know about best minutes, I have printed out the complete list of rates and they are incredibly cheap, I phone my sister in Australia regular and I thought 4p a minute was cheap but best minutes 1p!! amazing and 4p to Turkish mobile brilliant.
Thanks for taking the time.
Best wishes
June
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Hi June
Glad to be of help - I don't know how they do it so cheap but we're not complaining
Regards Janet
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Great prices BUT I just went to their website & now the cost of landline & mobile are the same at 4p a minute - same connection number 3232 for both now as Janet gave just for mobile.
Maybe there is a way around this by continuing to dial the old number or maybe they have put their prices up in the last few hours??
Will use this afternoon & evening for phoning USA & Australia. I thought we had great prices too at 2.5p-3p USA & 3-4p Australia from onetel (they keep changing their rates too). Those prices will save us a couple of quid a week keeping in touch with family & friends. (They do like to talk especially when we tell them it costs us so little to phone them - think we'll have to keep the lower rate to ourselves this time!)
Janet - thanks from us for sharing those.
For those on broadband - skype is also very very cheap. We'll have to have skype when we eventually get out to Calis otherwise it'll cost us a fortune keeping in touch. (Unless someone there knows differently?)
Linda & Carl
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Skype is the way forward. Calls very cheap and free to other Skype users
www.skype.com
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Janet
We tried bestminutes for ages & ages this afternoon & tonight but just got the engaged signal. Do you normally have problems getting a line out? In the end we gave up & used Onetel.
Linda
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Linda
No,we've never had problems and usually get through ok. All I can suggest is to keep trying.
Janet
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Just out of curiosity we had a mobile phone provided for us at the villa we stayed at this year. We never used it as it was really only provided for emergency use than normal phone calls or texts to home (UK) My question is that we do not know how many units you would use per minute or texting someone in the UK on their mobile using Turkcell.So can you please explain the actual costs per unit per minute to a UK mobile phone?...Thanks
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could anyone tell me if i do not use my tukish sim card has it a 3 month life if so can anyone tell me how to keep it active as i do not want to keep getting a new number every year can i use it in england to ring turkey to keep it active we came back end of august and will be going on the 16th of dec for christmas
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The Turkcell cards expire after 6 months, we had to get a new sim card & number for ours this year as it was 7 months between visits.
I think you lose your credits after 3 months BUT have yet to find that out for definate. I think the only way to keep it is to leave it with someone or get someone to take it out with them & top up.
Ours went on a phone on the Orange tariff but when you get back home with the turkcell card in it comes up as no network found.
Heyjo - A few months back it cost 4 units per minute to phone the UK via Turkcell. A unit then cost approx. 4p so approx. 16p a minute. I know texts are less expensive. It was costing us about the same for a call a few doors down the road in Turkey as it was to phone home.
If you want cheaper calls & use the phone a lot I believe the more expensive phone cards give you more time plus Turkcell kept sending us messages which translated meant the more you spend the more units they give you free.
Linda