Has anyone heard of Traveltele.com?
 

They are offering cheap SIMs and rates on ebay. But their website looks kind of hokey.

You get an Estonian mobile number (+37253...) I think (http://private.traveltele.com/en/ex/ttsim.register.php).

First I thought that you could get a number in these 39 numbers (as advertised), but I don't think you can combine a USA number with these sim-cards without paying for the forwarding-cost.

Otherwise I would be extremely cheap...
Call your USA number for 1 cent (choose any Betamax site) and get your phone ring where you want for free.
But that's not the case, is it?

Anyone who is more familiar with this service?

Yves

It seems I mixed up things:

USA mobile number, caller pays for a call to (yes :-) ) the USA.
http://sim.traveltele.com/en/service/simcard-National/
Receiver (you) pay $US 0,29 / min. in 39 countries.
Validity period of SIM-card and balance is unlimited.

Estonian number (?)
http://sim.traveltele.com/en/service/simcard/
Incoming calls (you) to Traveltele.com National SIM-card are free in 51 countries of the world.
Caller pays for the call to Estonia.
Validity period of SIM-card and balance is unlimited.

It seems that the following text was copy/pasted from the other page, because this is NOT about the non-national card:

It looks like they charge a daily fee for an inbound US number so this probably wouldn't be a good deal for an occassional international traveler. Maybe the Estonia only card paired with a third-party call forwarding service would be a better deal.:

"Phone number activation requires some payment obligations to be met: one-time payment of activation fee and monthly charge.

Monthly charge (for the 1st month) will be deducted from the account after you activate the number (together with activation fee). After 1 month expires the deductions will be automatic and take place every day based on equal daily increments according to the number of days in a month (1 day = 24 hours).

Example for US based number: Activation and the 1st month of using the service will cost: $9+$5=$14. After 1st month the deductions will take place every day and make up to $5/30 = $0.17 daily. After the funds in the account have been exhausted to pay for the activated phone number your personal telephone number will stay reserved for you for the length of two weeks (14days). After two weeks passed the number will be canceled and returned to our database."

Thanks. I'd figured out that much.

When I Googled them, only one real reference came up (an article in a travel letter). Parts of the website don't seem to go anywhere. Best to stay away I guess.

I guess you are right there...

I'm still happy with what I have now, Geodesa + justvoip for inbound calls.
5ct for incoming calls, I haven't found any sollution that can beat that price.

Am I correct that you have a DID voip number that you redirect to justvoip and justvoip is setup to always forward to your Geodesa mobile.

Correct, all my DIDs are defined in pbxes.org, there you can easily forward to sip/justvoipaccountname@sip.justvoip.com

This gives my correspondents a way to reach me at the rate of a local call, and I'm only charged 5ct/m. I can talk for 3 hours with just a €10 deposit.
It's a dedicated justvoip-account for the sole purpose of forwarding to my IOM sim.

If you want you can call me on my 'Eindhoven-040' number :p

Great I am also using pbxes but in combination with voicetrading their pro solution. Rate to IOM is 10 cents as I get the tax back. But the just voip solution is 6 cents even including tax.
I will look into it as I also forward all call to my IOM number parallel to voip.
At pbxes I also use callback trigged by my dutch phone. so I can callback using justvoip to get connected to my IOM mobile and dialout on voicetrading.

My only concern is it how long will it take before the forward gets triggered as pbxes first calls justvoip and justvoip has to dial my iom number. How is the voice quality any long delays ?

This pbxes.org thing sounds pretty useful...but it seems kind of confusing. Is this a reasonable solution for an average, occasional user? I'm looking for a way to use a global sim in Europe (and later in Asia) and allow users in the US to call me (free to them, cheap to me).

What is needed to use pbxes.org?

Knowledge :-)
If you want I can help you. Just PM me.

I installed the justvoip-app, on my computer and tried to call myself:
- my voip phone rings immediatly
- the justvoip-app rings also immediatly
- my IOM phone rings 5 seconds later (acceptable to me)

I let the calls come in one a queue, I created a welcome message, and put the caller on music (MoH). So the caller thinks I don't pick up the phone immediatly, thats all.

have bought some credit from justvoip.

I have around 8 DID number that get ring on 2 locations on voip phones. Parallel I have these numbers forward to my IOM mobile. Instead on voicetrading I now setup the justvoip and an extension and calling the sip/myunsername@sip.justvoip.com

As you said it works very well. I have made some testcalls and it even seems to work faster than calling through voicetrading.
As said I also use the pbxes callback option so I can call cheap using my iom mobile. For calling out I will still use voicetrading as their rates seem to be stable.
For now justvoip has a lower rate 6 cent (incl vat) compared to 10 cents for voicetrading.
But as you know with betamax they can change their rates to a higher one. In that case I can switch back to voicetrading. But thanks for the tip It works great.