Thanks for all the responses! I keep hearing mixed opinions on the reliability of Travelsim, is it that calls are just bad quality? or will calls not connect at all?

Also I have read that texting prices in the EU were just capped at €0,11 per text no matter where you are (in the EU). Is this true? Travelsim shows the updated price but most other places I look still have significantly higher texting prices. Does anyone know a little more about this? Thanks

In the most EU countries texts cost 11 cents, it's an interesting price above all the Eurotariff. In which country will you go?

I will be living in Germany, and traveling to Ireland, Netherlands, and Italy a lot

And you want to send sms to USA?

No I just was looking for the cheapest and most reliable way for people in the US to call my estonia number.

Both--but it was the failures to connect that drove me away.

My advice, do not depend 100% on this +372 number for receiving calls from the USA. Just too unreliable to reach that number from here.

My feeling is that many U.S. long distance carriers blocked calling to +423 and +372 (United Mobile and TravelSim) numbers was because costs were MUCH MORE expensive than calling regular numbers - and that customers complained about the "outrageous" charges. I know carriers blocked calls to UM numbers. I assume some do the same to TravelSim numbers.

...mike

calling cards
 

currently i living in USA want to call international to Egypt how to call to Egypt

Does anyone know which is the cheapest (with pretty good reception) prepaid international calling card to purchase in Egypt is? thanks