Three cuts pay as you go international call rates

PAY AS YOU GO customers are being offered cheaper international calls by the mobile phone firm Three.

Today the firm said it is cutting the cost of calls to twenty five countries and prices will start at just 2p per minute to glamourous locations like Ireland and Poland.

In order to make their cheaper calls, pay as you go customers need only insert a three digit shortcode before the phone number they want to ring, the firm explained, and can call either mobiles or landlines at the cheaper rates.

Prices scale up depending on the location, and while calls to Poland start at 2p per minute, it will cost 6p to call a Pakistani landline. Calls to the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany and China are also covered. Calls to mobiles seem to average around the 14p per minute mark. The most expensive place to call on a mobile is Afghanistan at 16p, while the cheapest is 3p.

Surprisingly this lower cost does not apply to Irish calls, which after all is not particularly far from the UK. Calls to mobile Irish kinfolk will set users back 14p per minute, while ringing up the Chinese costs 3p.

Although lower priced calls have been available to users since April of this year, Three has boosted the number of applicable countries to twenty five. µ