other prepaid forum? i thought PPGSM was the only one :)

I just noticed that TravelSIM has "free" incoming calls in Japan. I'm tempted to try one but high buy-in (particularly with shipping) is holding me back. Right now no one is selling one on eBay.

Don't forget japan don't use GSM ;)

But it *should* work on a W-CDMA phone.

No! You don't say? ;)

TravelSIM have updated their website. I went through the ordering drill until I hit the 20% "tax" and decided I didn't need it that bad. Funny but I couldn't find where they tell you that the number is in Estonia. Maybe they forgot? I may wait for a good offer on an IoM SIM.

Travelsim finally replied to me today with instructions on how to purchase. It's been TWO MONTHS! The site was http://www.travelsimshop.com/

The part I found interesting was:

"In your memberarea at www.travelsimshop.com, you have a lot of features, like checking your balance, control your outgoing and incoming calls.
and check the rates for the country you want to travel to"

Can anyone comment on how useful this "member area" is. I wish Riiing would offer some way of tracking useage. Does TravelSIM actually show each call?

Also. Effendi, has your connection sucess rate improved?

Thanks

Honestly I didn't use it recently, on my trips I mainly used United Mobile (in CH) and CallBlue (in CZ/SK), but now I tried to register on Travelsimshop with no success. I just sent them an e-mail, the I'll try some calls for sure.

Anyway my connection problems were mainly due to my LG phone which doesn't support USSD codes very well. Also in this days there are some problems with TIM and Wind and USSD as far as I know, also United Mobile users are facin them, but it's the 2 Italian operator's fault...

The TravelSIM shop registration works fine now, please try to registrate again, wait for the confirmation email and click on it to activate your account.
please let me know where your problems were.

In your memberarea you will see each incoming call, each outgoing call, and each sent sms. you also can top up airtime in realtime, not with many payment options at the moment, but they will be added after and after :D

btw - the standard triggering process is through USSD - but
SMS triggering works now as well in manual mode ( send message ?*146*00+cc+number+#?, to number ?9146?), very useful for instance in UAE now.

cheers

I have good expirience of using TravelSIM in Italy

I used TIM and Vodafone networks, both worked fine.

Is that triggering SMS charged and, if so, at what rate?