Calling United Kingdom with BananaCall

August 04, 2010

If you need to make international calls to United Kingdom, look no more: BananaCall offers you great calling services and very low rates for this destination.

While the rate for calling UK using one of the notorious phone service providers in USA will cost you around 7 cents/minute, with BananaCall, you can get rates as low as 0.4 cents per minute (with Banana Smile). Some of the cards (Banana Smile included) do feature maintenance or connection fees, but your bottom line cost will still be far smaller than when using a normal provider to place a direct international call.

With a BananaCall plan, you will need to initiate the call from your phone, and call up a local access number (for maximum savings). When you do this, you are charged the normal fee for a local call on your phone plan (or nothing, if your plan includes free local calls), and added to that you're charged the cost of the international call which is deducted from your calling plan's credit. And even so, you still get a lower rate than with a direct call.

Here is the dialing instructions you need to follow to place calls to UK using your low-rate BananaCall plan:

1. Dial a local access number.
2. When requested, enter your PIN number for identification
3. After the prompt, enter the destination number in international format:
   011 (exit code) + 44 (UK international prefix) + Area Code + Phone #

If you don't know the Area Code that you need to enter, here is a great resource where you can find all codes, based on location: List of United Kingdom dialling codes on Wikipedia.

Now, all you need to decide is which BananaCall plan to choose - they differ by rates, fees and billing increment. Read our articles on how to select the appropriate billing increment.