The UK is one of the leading global nations in terms of its telecommunications networks. 99.9% of the country is covered by landline, bringing both internet and telephone communication to the public with over 35 million landline phones currently in existence. There are also more mobile phones than there are people, and the latest 3G networking technology, providing broadband speeds over a mobile connection, is available in most areas of the country.
The UK is also at the centre of most of the world`s submarine communications cables, which means that it is very easy for a person within the UK to make a call to any other country in the world. However, just using your standard BT phone line in your student house or your mobile phone to make a call abroad will almost certainly prove to be very expensive. Thankfully there are some services which allow you to make incredibly cheap calls abroad from the UK, and nearly every destination worldwide is covered. Dialtosave.co.uk are a particularly good example of a company providing cheap phone calls from the UK to abroad, and visiting their website to check out their tariffs is easy. Argentina, Hong Kong and Russia can be reached for only 0.5p a minute, and popular destinations like Spain and the USA can be reached from as little as 1p a minute, even to a mobile phone!
The service is paid for in a very simple way as well, and it`s great for students who either have friends who are travelling abroad, or who are thinking of travelling abroad themselves and want to give their families a cheap way of staying in contact. You simply have to create an account with the company and top the account up with money. This is done either via text message, through which the cost of the messages will cover the cost of the calls you wish to make, or alternatively via Paypal, the secure and simple online money transfer website that is most commonly used in conjunction with eBay transactions. After you`ve topped up your account, you then have to dial the correct access number on your mobile phone or landline in the UK, all of which are listed on the dialtosave.co.uk website alphabetically by country. There are detailed instructions on how to use the service on the website also, and the cost of calls is incredibly cheap when compared to a standard BT tariff.
The great thing is that you can also call a person on their mobile whilst they are abroad and the prices still stay very cheap. If you`re a student on your Gap Year and you want to be always available to friends and family back home then these great value cheap international calls packages can be set up quickly and easily before you go, and you should probably explain exactly what to do to your parents just so they don`t confuse themselves in your absence!
