I'm looking at these 3 cards because of their IOM incoming numbers (which at least for the time being seems cheaper to call than Estonia, Lichtenstein, etc.) Does anyone have any experience with any of these cards (call quality, reliability, etc.?) Any of the cards better than any of the other ones for any reason?

Thanks.

Edit: The title should have said Globalsim rather than Travelsim.

I have a CallBlue card and from a stability point of view it's as good as any other IoM card.

Here are some of the issues I have with them:

1. Inexistent telephone support and slow helpdesk/email support.

2. A $25 annual maintenance fee listed in the T&C's. According to their support team it will likely be eliminated by the end of the year.

3. No advance notice on rate changes.

Personally I like the eKit SIMs the best. They may not be the cheapest of the IoM cards, but their support is second to none.

Hope this helps.

Similar issues seem to apply to CallKey rebrands.

Tariffs have recently gone up on most of these. On mine (supplied from an early batch from 0044) this was unannounced and is now the same as Simazing tariffs despite a promise in April that it would stay lower, and I'm waiting for a response to a query about this.

It also isn't clear what renewal fee will be due. CallKey and 0044 refer queries back to the other (and 0044 is now selling CallBlue)

In terms of connectability and call quality, I doubt if there is any reason for any difference between all of them.

When you say Globalsim, note that there are two operations trading with this name; the rather longer established one in Germany was previously a UM reseller, and the recent UK one claims to have helped CallKey develop the roaming agreements for the last two years, but appeared many months later than other brands.

It's not clear to me which of the cards listed at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/international.html are the "ekit SIM." I also don't know if any of the cards listed on that page are the Callkey rebrands referred to in the next post.

Help.

Thanks.

None of them. For some reasons, our host, Effendi doesn't want to put info about all the Manx-based sims. According to my "private investigation" made about a month ago, there are about 20 Manx sim brands available on the market.

AFAIK Geosim and Globalsim.

The reason is quite simple: 4 days ago I finally graduated at University, that's why in the last period I did so little updates and I was so little present of the forum! ;)
Anyway, listing ALL Kallkey rebrands seems to be quite complicated and probably not so useful too... if someone of you could help me doing a complete and updated list to put on that page you'd be very helpful. I think Przemolog and Andy are probably much more informed than me, so when you have time it would be great if you can help me a bit.
Anyway now I'm leaving for 1 week of holidays in Eastern Europe, so we'll talk about it when I come back! ;)

Congratulations!!!
:thumbup: :beer: :thumbup:

I agree there's a lot of work to do. However, I don't feel very competent about practical aspect of usings Manx SIMs. I don't have any and I'm not going to buy in the nearest future.

If someone provides names/URLs of these "rebrands", I'll do some of the grunt work to make a chart as to offers etc.
I am not volunteering to buy 20 SIM cards :D

...mike

I think I'll be able to create the list around the next weekend...

Well, just received 2 GlobalSim simcards. And I just have a CallBlue one. If you want I can help you in this way... :P Anyway, I'll have more free time from next week (I lost the work..) and I'll try to help you for a new complete list of international sims. Is it a good idea? :)

I think there could be 40 or 50 CallKey ones, and half a dozen Callblue

Oh, my God! Maybe it's time to start on PPGSM a new section "International Manx Cards" (and a new section on the forum as well) :D

don't know - the number may be an over-estimate, but I feel that I've looked at so many (as you have) there could be nearly 30 I've seen, though several are just co-rebrands from the same underlying firms, like EnglandCalling on Maxsim

And Callblue does ultimately go through CallKey, which I've only just actually found out; I wondered before why some firms apparently hadn't heard of each other, but that's probably just at CS level.

My experience with callblue is terrible!I ordered a simcard from them two weeks ago got an email to confirm payment has been taken and never got anything from them!I called at various times but could never talk to anyone and I left about half a dozen messages voicemail,email and through their web helpfiles but nobody ever came back to me!So that is terrible or actually no customer service at all!I am really surprised they are in a good position on www.prepaidgsm.com!I thought they only commented or advertised on trustworthy companies!

I bought my Callblue sim through 0044 in the UK. I've been using it on and off for a few months and for the most part its fine: sms works flawlessly and was cheap (was 0.15?/sms until last week, now 0.38?!). Outgoing call rates were fine and the callback method works fine most of the time.

What I am having problems with however is incoming calls. 90% of incoming calls will not ring the handset. The caller hears a ringing tone which eventually goes to voicemail, but the handset simply wont ring. I usually ask a caller to try 3 or 4 times to make the handset ring, which simply isnt practical if I want to give out the number.

Callblue support is very poor and I'm not very impressed with 0044 - they just forwarded my emails to Callblue who dont reply. With the rate hike this week it makes the sim look very poor in comparison to other IoM sims so I'll be shopping around for another solution.

That's a bit surprising. I'm not aware of any failed actual incoming calls,and missed ones end up in the voicemail; I usually forward my O2 to it, and other call forwarding works. Using separate callback, I've occasionally had calls not arrive, and then used a different trigger; I can't tell if this is in the forwarding, callback or the reachability of the SIM, but it only affects about 10% of attempted outgoing calls.

Well, our site is prepaidgsm.NET :P and this forum is here for helping yourself too.

Personally I have a CallBlue (see my signature) and I used it not so much. But you can find a lot of experience from our members, your is important for me and PPGSM. Then you know, we speak about the offers, very often we try to be clear but we need similar feedback. How to know a trustworthy company? Thanks to you dear readers, too! :help: :)

It seems that callblue is getting even more expensive.
The sim costs 50$ with no credit in it and sms are @ 0,38$ instead of 0,15$...

I am using globalsim (the one from freeglobalsim) and I am very satisfied with it. The sim itself is free, you just pay for the credit. The call quality is very good and all calls have completed sucsessfully. You get an SMS after each outgoing call indicating the cost of the call (it can be disabled), Checking VM is free, and the number can be forwarded to any number. SMS cost varies depending on country though. You can forward, disable/enable VM, check VM, topup, etc. from the website. Most of these functions are also available via the phone at no extra charge.

It needs to be topped up every 6 months though. The list of free incoming countries may be limited for some, but it's good enough for me. And, outgong calls cost in these countries are not bad at all.