....except for the fact that for me, and I just used them the last couple of days in France and the UK, I pay 10¢/minute to call the USA using enlinea so I put up with all the other problems (of course I've had the card for a while)...

Incidentally, just recently unless I am mistaken, when I called for a balance it was given to me in Euro and I believe, but don't hold me to this, it was given at one time in USD.

I was using the card fine that way last year from Mexico (it's the only country I brought the card for), and it was a great deal. They've now dropped Mexico without warning, so for me it's useless.

That's a problem with a lot of these cards, even if they manage to stay in business their changes might make the card unusable (another example would be the large number of surcharged countries added to gt-sim).

I know...nothing is guaranteed! Yackie doubled the cost of incoming calls from $0.24 to $0.49 in almost every country before their sim was even fully functional. Outgoing call sosts also increased in most of the countries too. There are so many of them now, so there is really no telling which one will stay in business.I know one thing...not all of them will survive.

...let's though keep our fingers crossed...United Mobile has been very stable over the past couple of years as has callbackworld (I know but it has functioned well about 75 to 80% of the time and seems to be functioning very well right now)

But sometime in the next couple of months, there is a good possibility lots of good rates may be available especially in Europe thanks to eu pressure.

09 in Mexico
 

Hi Guys,
did anyone of you recently use the 09 card in Mexico?
Just got a call from my boss that I need to fly over there on Thursday.

Our company phone provider charges 2.55 Euro out and 1.55 Euro inbound there..... geez.

Chris

How "recent" is "recent"?

As short ago as possible ;-)

I was there in November and my 09 card worked fine with "free" incoming calls. Since then I've heard that their may have been some change in how it works.

Thanks for your info.
I'll be there from friday. I'll post my experiances here for sure. Especially in combination with CBW.

Chris

I would advice you to take your globalsim also just in case.....

I always carry a small package with about 10 SIM-Cards with me :) You never know what you will need....

How long are you staying? Maybe you could also consider a calling card...

I only have about 6 and find it hard enough to keep track of when they expire, need to be used, etc. I don't know how you keep up with 10. :eek:

Hehe. That is a good question.
Fortunately there are some contract cards among them so i need to keep up with expiry dates only with 4 SIM. But as they are all used quite regularly i mostly top up long time before any expiry dates.

To Prion: We'll be there just for a week and visiting a bunch of clients. I hope I dont need too much calling - but if i need to call it will be mostly during the meetings...

Surcharges
 

There is a lot of mention of surcharges and their effect on price - this is something that the local carrier (eg in Mexico) does to discourage roaming cards in one of two situations 1) They get minimal revenue 2) they have the called party paid model. They generally overcompensate (and really take advantage at times) but the surcharges will be the same for every foreign SIM that comes in. What maks it worse is they have the ability to change these without notice, always charge by the minute and add all sorts of local taxes. Therefore, if one card supplier imposes a surcharge then be very suspicious of any that do not becasue they are impossible to avoid.

EU pricing still remains a 'smoke and mirrors' exercise that I do not believe will have an overall positive impact on pricing, it will just change the profile of charges and packages.

Greetings from Mexico City!
The 09 card works fine with Telefonica and callbacks with CBW work as well. Sound quality is very good.

Cant complain till now..

Chris

Maybe i missed it - what are the actual costs?

...mike

Free incoming in Mexico! Probably the only international sim that still offers that!

yes, free incoming...