phone numbers from Isle of Man to Jersey.
 

In case anyone might care ekit seems to be/have been changing their 'UK' phone numbers from Isle of Man to Jersey.
This is not really all that surprising be cause Jersey Telecom
bought ekit a year or so ago.

Yeah. I noticed thet my new sim has a 07937 number. Makes no difference to me, as I will just be using the US number.

Yes, and jeresey telecom also owns GO SIM and Telestial.

Another update: ekit sent the new SIM out quickly via UPS. The new number has a 7937 prefix.

One problem I didn't realize: they blocked my old SIM as soon as they sent the new one, so I was stuck without a working SIM for a couple of days as the new one was in transit.

Luckily there was only one day left in my trip so I wasn't too inconvenienced.

However, ekit customer service didn't make any mention that the old SIM would be closed immediately. I had assumed it would have been working until the new one was activated.

So if you go this route, expect to not have service for a couple of days.

They transfer the balance as soon as you request the new SIM which causes the old SIM not to work. However if you put at least $10 on the old SIM it will continue working.

Ok, none of that was mentioned by Customer Service. I had about $9 on the card when it went dead.

Upgraded my old ekit Simple Calling sim card to the new Telestial (ekit yellow) sim card after they sent me an email offering to upgrade the sim and give me a $5 credit (had spent it down to under US$1 after they tripled their non-US Caribbean rates on their old card). Arrived in the mail today but I'm currently in the USVI, so it will sit until I get home this weekend. Intriguing thing on the new card is that it is US/Can/Mex for direct dial on the US number, but I wish they would kill off the US$.49 connect charge.

Think Telna and country dedicated prepaid sims will be primary. The ekit sim will be secondary. If all else fails VOIP or Iridium.