Save Money Making Calls To New Zealand When You Travel

Here’s something that may be handy for travellers with a digital mobile phone. If you do business in New Zealand or planning a trip to New Zealand and will make a lot of local phone calls, save money when you are away from your home or office by using your prepaid international New Zealand phone card to make all your calls to New Zealand.

There are SIM cards available by some companies on short term rental. This allows you to use your digital mobile phone. You will be allocated a NZ mobile number and best of all there are no roaming charges, no international charges and, and no contract.

Usage costs depend on which phone company you choose. This is an example of call rates from the vendor Phone Hire New Zealand.

Outgoing call charges:

$0.49 a minute to the home network and any land line in New Zealand.
$1.39 to the other mobile network.
$0.49 to Australia, UK, Canada, Ireland & USA.
$1.39 to other countries.
$0.20 National text (SMS).
$0.30 international text.

Incoming call charges:

Free unlimited incoming calls from anywhere in the world.

If you know that you will be travelling to places in New Zealand which has coverage by one company and not the other, ask for a phone serviced by that company. For phone coverage maps use the following links: Vodafone coverage, Telecom coverage.