The cost of International mobile calls has been reduced by Three on Pay As You Go ( PAYG ). Calls to some International landlines are as low as 2p a minute. To get the cheaper prices PAYG customers just add a shortcode to the number they are dialing. See above.

Users can programme their most frequently used numbers ( with prefix ) into their phones to make dialling these simpler and this also eliminates the need to remember to add the shortcode prefix. The service has been up and running with 12 countries for 7 months and now an additional 13 countries have been added along with price cuts.

The new prices apply to 25 overseas destinations :

• - 3p per minute to Indian landlines and mobiles
• - 2p per minute to Polish landlines
• - 3p per minute to Chinese mobiles and landlines
• - 4p per minute to Bangladeshi mobiles and landlines
• - 6p per minute to Pakistani landlines
• - 3p per minute to US landlines or mobiles
• - 3p per minute to Canadian landlines or mobiles
• - 2p per minute to Irish landlines or 14p for mobiles
• - 3p per minute to German landlines or 12p for mobiles

To access the service, all PAYG customers need to do is top-up their credit - something that already gives them a bunch of free texts, free data allowances and free Three-to-Three calls, and start calling.