Mobile Phone Contact from England to Republic of Ireland?

yes txting will not be a problem but if you want to ring them they will have to set up thier roaming signal before they leave the uk with txting you do it the same as if they in england but instead of the first 0 use 0044 or +44 so set thier numbers in yor phone like this instead of just 077......... etc +4477.......... then you just txt as normal and if you have free txts it won,t cost but to phone them you will omit the first 0 and but the code for ireland not sure what that is think it 003something

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Had your friend switched to billpay not long before travelling, or was he a reasonably new customer? This can play a part. They warned me that it would be difficult to make or receive calls when abroad for the first few months, although texting was no problem. Another consideration is that some places are very sparsely populated so there's very little coverage, a problem which Irish people have too. Does your friend need to switch to roaming? Otherwise phones bought from O2 in Ireland work fine in other places, so I think your friend's problem is a little odd. He should contact O2 in the UK, because everyone I know who has come here from the Netherlands, France and other places have been able to use the O2 network without any problems.

As long as roaming is enabled on the phones that will be in Ireland ( your phone account is setup so you can use it in another country ) then you won't have any problems. I think the phones in Ireland get charged for sending or receiving calls/texts at the roaming rates and the phone in the uk doesn't and will get charged international rates for calling/texting to Ireland.

Or your parents could possibly buy a cheap irish pay as you go sim and put it in one of the phones if the phone isn't sim locked to the original network.

Hi i am from northern ireland and there will probably be no problem at all getting throught to either of your parents. However be warned that the cost of calling from a UK Mobile to one in the Reopublic of ireland is HUGE. I My mother once called me for a few mins when I was in the republic (on my Uk phone) and it cost me £6 to RECIEVE the call! The phone companies make a fortune ripping off the UK Irish situation. My advice is get the phone number of your parents hotel and call them on an Irish land line from a UK landline. It will be much much cheaper (you can use the money to buy whisky!!)

. . . the safest form of communication between England and the R.O.I. has always been by Royal Mail (though I don't think you're allowed to call it by that name anymore (a bit like the Police in Ulster). Coming this way, the rowing boats have generally been superceded by ferries given safe passage into an outlying area of Wales and somewhere in the north-west of England (well outside the M25 exclusion zone). Perhaps a Postcard? . . .