How do they manage to have coverage in various arab and muslim countries?

DATA Roaming
 

Do you talk about DATA configuration.
Does dataplan is out?
do you try some 3G connection?

alex

No, I was just referring to the settings in the card, to prove it's a card from Israel. Most 'global' cards have the datasettings preloaded, but this doesn't mean it's working already.

The only card that is offering data at this moment (AFAIK) is the GT-Sim, at €0.12/10kb. As long as it doesn't become 10 times cheaper, I think it's too expensive, and I look out for a (free)Wifi Hotspot whenever I'm abroad.

Judging from the blogs (and the comments), potential users have not been satisfied with the way this initial crisis was handled. One thing is for certain, even bad publicity is publicity. They've been given an awful lot of that and no doubt they have lost some, gained others. Many are at least now aware that such products exist, and some have even been made aware of ppgsm and some alternatives to this.

See:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/...final-chapter/

http://www.goebel.net/technews/2007/...t-article.html

http://consumerist.com/consumer/oh-d...ard-307416.php

FWIW, Pat Phelan has moved his apology ("Comment on our rates"), which was previously linked to the main rate page, and which I referenced in an earlier post. It is now found on a new blog on the company's website, http://www.maxroam.com/blog.asp.

The blog also includes a new defense of the company's rates by Sean O'Mahoney ("it turns out that our rates actually do rock"), which compares MAXroam's rates for calling the USA from a handful of countries to the corresponding rates from T-Mobile and AT&T. Of course, this is hardly an apples-to-apples comparison, in that MAXroam uses a callback system, requires getting a new phone number, etc. A more apt comparson would be another global roaming SIM. Celtrek, for example, offers a similar product, but has rates that are substantially lower for all but one of the countries listed in MAXroam's blog.

I wonder how many people are still purchasing this card based on Pogue's original review, but have not checked the actual rates or reviewed all the critical comments in numerous blogs covering its introduction?

Back to Pogue. Seems his apology got /.ed today: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/14/1314204

iPhone
 

Today, I received my iPhone, that I won on MaxRoam's launch-day.

Just using it for an hour, but I love the interface.
YouTube is coming in slow.
Voice quality is very good.
In my basement (where my Nokia E70 has problems) I can continue calling with no problem.

More news, when I have time to do more testing...

Anyone received free SIM . I didn't get any answer to my request from Sean Omahony.

I have not got mine yet, just an email to say it will be done when they get round to doing all the paid customers first

Anyone here is using Maxroam ?