mobile phones in Ireland

[wagenaar]

My wife will be in Ireland for some weeks in july. She plans to buy a prepaid telephone card with an irish telephone-number from an irish provider. We feel this will be cheaper than roaming with the spanish telephone. Can anyone advise us which irish provider is the cheapest? Henk

 

[kesey]

Henk, you have a choice of 3 operators: Vodafone, O2 and Meteor. Meteor appear to be doing deals at the moment. Deciphering which oprtsator is the cheapest is an activity not for the feint hearted.

 

[Dyflin]

try;
http://web.o2.ie/
http://www.vodafone.ie/
and
http://www.meteor.ie/

I have a british and a dutch sim car that I bought for around €10 in each country and then buy prepaid international call cards or just text when in these countries.

 

[webcraft]

Bought an O2 PAYG card in Dublin last year for £10 with £10 worth of credit . . . topped it up with £20 credit in Dingle and it lasted me nearly five weeks for daily internet connections to download my e-mail and do a bit of work, plus a few local calls.

So - if she has got a laptop and you have a PC perhaps you could get Skype installed and use that. Talk as long as you want for the price of a local (mobile) call.

Just a thought . . .

- Nick

 

[Birdseye]

Just make sure that her phone isnt restricted to using her provider ie if it is Orange, she will find it wont allow other sim cards to be used, but MMo2 does if memory serves me right.

She can get this barring removed but there is a cost which used to be about £35.

 

[cruisingsam]

If the phone is an O2 phone in Spain then it should work here with the O2 €10 simcard & €10 credit for €10 on as mentioned. My cousin did this in November with a UK phone with no problems