Well, this past week I was able to really test the yackie card when I set off for a weeklong cruise to central america. I stopped in Belize, Mexico and Honduras. Im going to get to the meat of the review since everything I want to report is pretty straight forward.

Belize-Card worked when I first became in range of the towers for Belize, Belize's only network (BTL) worked at first, later the same day i could not get any callbacks to work, since there is no other network there I could not tell specifcally if it was a yackie thing or a Belize network issue. Before I left it began working again and worked well when it functioned.

Honduras-I was actually on Roatan which is an island off of Honduras, there were three networks available but only 1 was able to be logged into by Yackie. It was listed as "ALO" on my phone's display. Coverage seemed good through the island and I was pleasantly surprised by the coverage because I really didnt expect to have any since Honduras is not listed under "Coverage" on their website but is able to be selected as a country your calling from under "Rates". Worked well and didnt have any trouble receiving callbacks, quality was good back to the US and Colombia when I tried calling there.

Mexico-I already knew it worked well in Mexico when I went to Monterrey. Coverage in Cozumel by Movistar and Telcel worked without a hitch. Coverage in Costa Maya by Telcel only also worked without a hitch.

I checked what I was charged and it seems everything was charged in order, I dont see any billing problems. Overall I have to give it a big thumbs up. If anyone has any specific questions just ask.

This is nice to hear.

I looked over the new rates, and, if it really works well, it is a perfect compliment to the other (IoM, UM, etc..) Euro-centric SIMs, as the countries that are not free roaming on the those seem to be the cheapest that Yackie has (most Yackie non Euro roaming is 19c or 29c in Asia, and India, etc.. where the other SIMs are quite costly)

Too bad it is 60 second billing :thumbdown:

Too bad they can't do a good US rate. I don't know what the problem is with my country. Are Yackie numbers still Ohio numbers?

I'm in India for a couple of weeks in February and am thinking about them.

When using Yackie from India please pay attention to a note in the rates page:

RPP may be applied to this country depending on the local provider

So I would not be surprised if actual rates were higher than those advertised....

Mine is a Miami, FL. number. Areacode 786.

hello

Regading the US price, USA are one of the country who charge a RPP and for this country the cost is 1 $ per minute, so the price can not be competitive

With our solution to mixt a Voip service with this GSM card, you can localy, when using the Voip service for forwarding your incoming call to you local provider, still receive your call, but without the Yackie incoming fees.

Also, because your number attached to your SIM card is also the same of your Voip account, if you use a GSM / Wifi ( availlable on yackiemobile in few days ) you will also be able to select the best solution for you to receive your call, and to make a call off course.

At home, at your office, use the WiFi connection and make your call or receive your call with the Yackie Voip account, off course in any WiFi spot if you have access.

And when you dont have any internet Connection for using your Voip account, you can use the GSM connection.

Regards

Yackie Team

The call calculator shows 0.19 incoming rate for Alaska - is it back in Russia :P?
And about RPP rates in the USA: here http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/usa.html I see that incoming call rates for "national" US prepaids are usually about 10-20 cents. Do you really have to pay so much (=$1) for calls terminated in US networks, or, is it just a pricing policy? I mean that the prepaid with something around 20-30 cents for incoming both in the USA and abroad and a US number would be too competitive and the US carriers would refuse to allow it on their networks :whistle:

hi

Unfortunatly, The RPP is basicly charged on the Incoming calls by the Local Operators

So because YM is based on a Call back system ( you make your call, the system call you back and call your correspondant ) we are charged on Outgoing, local and Incoming

It is because we have working for mix our GSM with our Voip service for trying to avoid through the Voip service as maximum as possible this inconvenient to have to pay this RPP

But YM is basicly is a Roaming Pre paid Card, so excepted using this card for receiving his Incoming call localy, the YM is normaly for be used in travel.

The fact that teh DID attached to this GSM is also attached to a Voip accountm can offer the incoming forwarding on his local number, so normaly a customer can use " his Yackie Mobile " GSm card without the incoming fees.

Yackie Team

That's interesting. Would customers have access to the settings to do this, or would they contact CS to do it for them? And could they use their own DID to forward to Yackie SIP address or similar?

You can log in to your Yackie VoIP account which now comes together with the card.

1) if the phone is switched off you can let your SIP software ring or
2) you can forward your DID to any phone around the world (and pay the Yackie VoIP rate to this destination of course)

Chris

OK, thanks for explanation but I still think that incoming rates in the USA are too high anyway.

As to the "YM is basicly is a Roaming Pre paid Card", you mean that YM is "designed" to be a mainly card for US users traveling abroad, right? Didn't you think that with lower US rates it might be attractive to non-US users who want to roam in the USA?

I understand that the US is not a receiver pays country. So is Canada, but compare the differential between the two. I will look at the voip as well.

Well, Yackiemobile seems to be nice compliment as an Asian-centric prepaid roaming card, which completes the picture in conjunction with the other Euro-centric cards, but, as a complete GSM/VoIP combo, with VoIP forwarding, it seems the Yackie VoIP rates to mobiles around the world are 10-15c higher a minute than, say, Skype, which is significant. Why is this, Yackie? Anything can be done about that?

hello

Small update today

Yackie is now offering with a card....a Number from 24 country and for the USA from many City

One SIM card, One Voip account, One number from 24 country include for one year with this package, possibility to add a extra number ( up to 8 ) to this SIm / Voip account, possibility to add many Voip number you want for share with your friends of family / 162 countries in roaming, 180 in coverage ( terminaison on Land and Mobile only ), one of the best rates of the market, and a GSM WiFI phone as yackie Handset for Delivery December.

Thank you for still be our customers

The Yackie Team

Where is this offer YackieMobile? I can't seem to find it on www.yackiemobile.com. Where is the GSM Wifi phone?

Anyone tried out the Voip forwarding? If so, how did it work? Does this come out of your prepaid balance from your SIM or???

maybe as listed on http://www.yackie.com/calculator.php ?

could do with making some of those rates a bit keener ...... and it might be interesting to compare their rates for Israel mobiles with a few others ...

Till now i could not make it work.
It always connects to voice mail when neither the SIM is online or the VoIP software.
And there is a prepay balance on the yackie VoIP account.
As it seems preloaded with 10$

Chris

Assuming all one has to do is log into the account, and click on forwarding and enter the number in the appropriate format, I gave it a try yesterday, but it still rolled to VM. I have not downloaded the VOIP software yet. Don't think there is a need to download the software in order for forwarding to work. Same here...There is $10 on the VOIP account and credit on my sim.

I tried out the software as well (and also added the data in my VoIP switchboard - its standard SIP they are using). In and outgoing calls work well there. And it really rings on the Yackiemobile DID when the cellphone is switched off. So far so good.

I'll try to ask the coustomer care about the forwarding later on.

Chris