topic Calling Australia from the UK in Mobile Services

Calling Australia from the UK

Graeme261 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:08:12 GMT

I shall be visiting Oz in a couple of months and have been talking to companies over there about trips.

The calls were cut off as I quickly hit my spend cap which is at the maximum £50.

I have found a cheaper call service to use but being an 084....number that too is barred.

I have abroad roaming add on. I assume that will do once I'm there, but how do I speak to people now that the phone bars me from making calls?

Graeme

Re: Calling Australia from the UK

bristolian — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:43:07 GMT

084 numbers shouldn't be barred as such, that's a separate issue. Although these calls are chargeable so if you've hit your spend cap, they will also be restricted.

Sounds like you just need to increase your spend cap. EE do offer some call-abroad add-ons that will reduce the cost of these calls - https://ee.co.uk/mobile/international/pay-monthly-international-calls

https://ee.co.uk/help/mobile/manage-use/pay-monthly/set-up-and-manage-spend-cap

Roaming means using your phone whilst abroad, so that add-on will indeed assist whilst you are outside the UK.

Re: Calling Australia from the UK

XRaySpeX — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:53:59 GMT

International calls & texts to overseas nos. from UK can be rather expensive but EE has a add-on, for £2.16 pm for those on contract or free for some legacy PAYG, that can be applied for to give these calls & texts at a fraction of the standard rates. See The CALL ABROAD Add-on for Cheap Calls/Texts from UK .