mobile phones

I looked at the T-Mobile UK site and don't see anything like our Family to Family plans here where calls to other members on your plan are free.  The UK is quite a ways behind or just a lot more expensive than the US as far as this goes it seems.  We pay 49.99 for 400 minutes shared.  

We took our triband T-mobile phone with worldclass approved on it and used it all over the UK and Spain.  Worked great.  It's one of the reasons I splurged to buy a triband phone.

I just am not sure what the best plan is for two people with two mobiles (we already have two triband phones.)

We have separate contracts because my husband uses his phone much more than me and sends less texts so it was just better to get 2 different contracts with different packages. We still wind up calling each other for free so it doesn't really matter for us to have a family plan or anything.

I haven't sent any texts to the US but I've sent them to the Netherlands and it's only like 7p or 10p or something. So that's not bad, imo.

We get good signals with T-mobile but I've also noticed that signals also depend on what kind of phone you have...which is why I've quickly gone off Nokia as we've always had terrible signals with them.

It may be easier to find out who you're going to be calling the most and find out what network they're on and go with them as most networks (if not all) will charge more for calls to another supplier than their own unless you get a package that specifically allows that (whatever the terminology is for that ).