Calling and texting overseas

We know your friends and family aren't just in New Zealand. So we've made it easy to call just about anywhere in the world direct from your mobile.

Calling overseas

CountryTalkingTextingPictures 

China

Hong Kong

India

South Korea

Taiwan

22c
a minute to mobiles and landlines

9c
each
50c
each

 

Australia

Canada

France

Germany

Indonesia

Ireland

Japan

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Thailand

UK

USA

Vietnam

Fiji

22c
a minute to landlines (Fiji 44c/min)

 

44c a minute to mobiles

9c
each
50c
each

 

Rest of world$1.44
a minute
20c
each
50c
each
 

Other calls

Calls to Scot Base Antarctica (+64240) $2.50

And if you want to call people with satellite phones, then the rates are:

Satellite callsTalking
Inmarsat$12.00/min
Iridiun$12.00/min

Some things you should know.

All voice minutes are rounded up to the nearest minute. You can't use the free texts you get when you top up to text overseas. They can only be used to text people in New Zealand.

The countries in the table above all have more than one mobile phone network. You can call all of these networks, but some of them haven't yet set themselves up to get text messages from or to 2degrees. Here's a list of networks that we know are all connected for texting. We're constantly working to extend this list. Please let us know if there are any networks you are having problems with by dialing 0800 022 022.

Texting with people overseas

2degrees offers great rates to text who you know overseas but unfortunately some networks haven’t yet set themselves up to get text messages from or to 2degrees.

All the operators on the list below are set up, these cover most of the operators in these counties. If the network you are looking for is not on the list, then be assured, we're on to getting it added as quickly as possible.

CountryNetwork
AustraliaHutchison Australia
AustraliaOptus
AustraliaTelstra
AustraliaVodafone Australia
CanadaBell Mobility
Canada* Rogers Wireless
CanadaTelus
ChinaChina Unicom
FijiVodafone
FijiDigicel
GermanyO2 Germany
GermanyT-Mobile
Hong KongChina Mobile Hong Kong
Hong KongCSL New World
Hong KongHutchison Hong Kong
Hong KongNew World PCS
Hong KongSmarttone Hong Kong
Hong KongSunday (PCCW Mobile)
IndiaAircel
IndiaSpice Telecom (operating in Karnataka and Punjab circles)
IndonesiaBakrie Telecome
IndonesiaHutchison Indonesia
IndonesiaMobile 8
IrelandMeteor
JapanNTT DoCoMo
Korea, SouthKorea Telcom Freetel (KTF)
MalaysiaDigi
MalaysiaMaxis
PhilippinesGlobe
PhilippinesSmart Communications
SingaporeSingtel Mobile
SingaporeStarhub
South AfricaCell C
South AfricaMTN
South AfricaVodacom
Sri LankaCelltel Lanka (TIGO)
Sri LankaDialog Broadband Ltd
Sri LankaHutchison
Sri LankaMobitel_Pvt
TaiwanChunghwa
TaiwanFar EasTone
TaiwanVIBO
ThailandASI
ThailandDTAC
ThailandTrue Move (TA Orange)
UKO2 UK
UKT-Mobile UK
UKOrange UK
UKHutchison 3G
USAAT&T Mobility (formally Cingular Wireless)
USAT-Mobile
VietnamVinaphone

If you do find that you are having a consistent problem with a certain country or network we'd like to know about it. Drop us a line at care@2degreesmobile.co.nz and we can look into it for you. It will also help if your overseas friend does the same at their end and lets their network know that they want to link up to 2degrees in New Zealand. And remember, you can still call overseas networks on 2degrees, it's just texting that sometimes isn't quite set up.