Travelling with a mobile phone

If you are travelling with a mobile phone, then we have several ways for you to save money, not just on calls from your mobile phone while travelling, but also to your mobile phone, so people can reach you less expensively while you are are travelling with your mobile phone.

If you regularly go travelling with a mobile phone to the same country, then we recommend a "pay as you go" or prepaid SIM card for that country: typically, you pay nothing to receive a call, and pay lower amounts for calls within the country. Making an international phone call back home is cheaper from the "in country" pay as you go SIM card too, compared with calling using your "domestic" pay monthly or prepaid SIM card abroad.

However, if you are travelling with mobile phone to a number of different countries, then there is nothing better than the 09 Mobile prepaid global roaming SIM card : it is free to receive calls in more than 100 countries, and you save a fortune on the calls you dial.

Looking for mobile phone rental? Whether GSM, or based on the American, Korean or Japanese standards, we offer them. We also have Iridium and Inmarsat satellite phone rental programmes.

Whether you are using an international prepaid SIM card, the global roaming SIM card, or a taking up our mobile phone rental deal, we can also save you money for calls to you while travelling with a mobile phone - or indeed to UK mobiles, as well as to international numbers. We assign you a UK number to call instead - call it, and the number abroad rings. It's worth taking a look at our low cost direct dial service which works from landlines and mobiles.

Why not get your calls delivered to your country specific pay as you go SIM or to your prepaid roaming SIM with our "follow me" or personal numbers service?

You will always get more out of your time abroad if you speak the language: it's surprisingly easy to learn using modern methods at Linguaphone, and you will be pleasantly surprised at how little it costs.

But if you don't speak the language, don't let that be a barrier! Whether you are looking to buy or sell products or services internationally, buying a property abroad, looking at adopting, or have an emergency situation - whatever the circumstances - you can get phone interpreting into more than 150 languages on a 24/7 pay as you go basis.

While abroad, you may need to find out which numbers to dial to phone home: our Area Codes section gives you a directory for every country.