Don't use a credit card in a phone box in Europe!
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ValDa
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A radio programme today highlighted the possible costs of using a credit card in phone boxes in Europe. A company called BBPG runs the credit card side of the operation, and charges are very different to if you use coins. A couple ran up a bill of £38.00
for a 5 minute call from a post office phone box in Austria. Soldiers in a town in Germany were being charged 42 dollars to receive a 5 second voicemail!
If you have a choice use coins, or buy a prepaid card locally which gives you the equivalent coin value when used in phone boxes.
It will cost many times more to use a credit card in a phone box than the coin equivalent, or even of using the most expensive mobile phone charge rate.
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