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Can You Tell What Country Someone is in from a Landline Phonebill?

  • 09-06-2011 7:52pm
    #1
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭


    If you ring someone on O2 or Meteor or whatever from a landline and they answer in another country does it cost more and show up on the bill or does it just look like a normal call and the person who's abroad picks up the extra fee?


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  • #2
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    It costs you the same and them more.


  • #3
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,876 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Other person pays the cost. . .its the same cost for you regardless of if they are Ireland or whereever (when they answer)


  • #4
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    They person receiving the call pays

    Is there not a telecoms forum on boards ?


  • #5
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Maybe it's going to evolve into a more sinister story Mike 1972, hence it being in AH to start with...


  • #6
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Thargor wrote: »
    If you ring someone on O2 or Meteor or whatever from a landline and they answer in another country does it cost more and show up on the bill or does it just look like a normal call and the person who's abroad picks up the extra fee?


    Is that you Larry Murphy ??


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  • #7
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    It costs you the same, the person with the mobile** phone more, as it is they who are roaming










    ** the clue is in the name, as they have a mobile phone, how are you/me/anyone supposed to know where the owner of said phone is when we call it?


  • #8
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Okay thanks for the info, one final clarification, if I tell my boss Im down in Galway doing something work related but Im actually in Spain for a couple of days and he rings my O2 PAYG mobile which I know he will, it will just look like a normal call to him with no evidence of what Im doing whatsoever?


  • #9
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    Thargor wrote: »
    Okay thanks for the info, one final clarification, if I tell my boss Im down in Galway doing something work related but Im actually in Spain for a couple of days and he rings my O2 PAYG mobile which I know he will, it will just look like a normal call to him with no evidence of what Im doing whatsoever?

    :pac::pac::pac:


  • #10
    audab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭audab


    I'm pretty sure he'll hear a spanish ringtone: beeeeeeeeeeeeep rather than the Irish beep beeeeep


  • #11
    Hasmunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    And if you don't answer it goes through to your voicemail with a Spanish person speaking broken English.


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  • #12
    DualFrontDiscs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DualFrontDiscs


    Thargor wrote: »
    Okay thanks for the info, one final clarification, if I tell my boss Im down in Galway doing something work related but Im actually in Spain for a couple of days and he rings my O2 PAYG mobile which I know he will, it will just look like a normal call to him with no evidence of what Im doing whatsoever?
    Divert your phone to voicemail before you leave for Spain. From memory, it will appear that you're just diverting to voicemail with no indication that you're abroad.

    DFD.


  • #13
    cosmicfart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    Landline, isnt that Eircomnasouraus? from the tryitonnox period?


  • #14
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Nah I have to answer it.


  • #15
    DualFrontDiscs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DualFrontDiscs


    Thargor wrote: »
    Nah I have to answer it.

    If your boss notices the different ringback tone, tell him it's 'cause you're near the Spanish Arch ;)

    DFD.


  • #16
    freefone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭freefone


    Thargor wrote: »
    Nah I have to answer it.
    When you call to the phone abroad, you get different "beep" even before person answers the phone. Only way around is diverting to voicemail and calling back, but even then it might be "eccoish" or like double signal, happens always when i call from landline abroad. Even to other landline.


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