What you get for your money
 

After looking at most of the free roaming sites I noticed the fast difference in sim card prices.

Worldsim £35 inc £10 Credit = £25 sim price

Geosim £19 inc £5 credit = £14 sim price

Sim4travel £15 inc £10 credit = £5 sim price

United Mobile £22 inc £7 credit = £15 sim price

Travelsim £34 No credit = £34 sim price (but you have to buy 50 euros)

Cherry Mobile £19 inc £10 credit = £9 sim price

easyroam (me) £29 inc £29 credit = £0 sim price

Bluefire wireless £35 No Credit

I'm interested in reading what the users thinks


I hope the moderates don't take this off. All the information was taken off each website so its public information not pillaged information.
You are a forum, Unbiased and inderpendent, so inform your public!

I would rather pay a small ammount in the beginning and then (if satisfied with the product) buy more time. So initial price should be kept down in my opinion.
You should also include Yackiemobile in your comparison

Travelsim costs 29.90/10.00 euros, like United Mobile. So it includes 10 euros of credit.

ICQ sim: € 15.00/10.00, or € 25.00/25.00
Callblue: US$ 49.99/30.00
Yackie: US$ 49.00/10.00
Maxroam: € 29.99/5.00

BTW it's all written HERE, at least for the main offers.

Try EKIT as well

On the Yackiemobile site I see that they offer the card for 49$ which includes 49$ airtime.

Nice idea.

It would also be good to see the credit expiry time / minimum top-up requirements / minimum usage / Min call charge / callseup fee / charging interval etc.

Good to see all the facts without having to wade through the websites

As Effendi already pointed out:

http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/international.html

So why not delete this thread as the only purpose seems to be advertsing easyroom his own service while most of the information is on the front page.

If easyroam likes to promotoe his service you really have to compare more than just the cost of the sim card. I don't knoi the rates he charges but it might as well be that he offers a cheap card and his rates are higher than the other ones. There is more than just the price of the card.

Easyroam people can inform themself and if they really have questions they can be asked here. A forum should not be a place for dealers to advertise their products like you are doing now.

I am asking a QUESTION :confused:

Yeah right you are asking a question and I am the king of the world. Stop believing in stories like that.

You are not asking a question, you make a statement about your service.

The sad thing is that you quote me but like manipuliative people you just take part of what I wrote. But to say it once more.

If users of mobile phones (and i don't mean dealers) have any questions about the service they can ask it here.

Funny why you just don't respond to my other questions :-)

But i will repeat the again in case you have not read them.

If you want to promote yourself make a good comparisment not only about the price of a card but also the other things like:

Call rate
Is there any starting cost for a call.
How long is the card valid if not used.
Is there a yearly cost

So be a brave guy, do your homework and answers these questions and make a review about all the cost involved.

Call rate = good price

Is there any starting cost for a call = NO. not for 079 sims, 10p for 078 sims

How long is the card valid if not used. = 12 mths (others are 9 mths)

Is there a yearly cost. YES. £12 per year or free if you buy credit!


The thing is bbob. Its just the same old "bla bla bla" taking about the same old thing :mad:

My post was to find out what people think and there comments. The only thing with you bbob. All you ever seem to do is moan and grumble. you never have a interesting thing to say.

Go back and read your old reply's and posts. You will see for yourself

Are we crying now little easygossip.

When you can't answer questions the only option seems to be hitting me on how I post.

Sorry that I don't crawl into your or someelses ass. If your looking for asscrawler go somewhere else.

As for what I post, it seems that you have a problem with that, and sure some other people to, just because I am critial and say what I think, but you seem to have a problem with that.:???:

As for what I post, go and do your homework, little gossip. And to help you do your homework, look at the 2 reviews I made, maxroam and yacki, but in all your frustration you did not read them.

Now lets get to your homework.:chair:

If you compare service, it's nice that you now now the figures of your service but you'r reading is not very good. comparing services means that you have to get these figures also for other services that you were comparing in your intial post. So go back do your homework and comeup with the same answers from the other serives that you were comparing.

The only thing I am afraid of i that you just don't seem to understand it :)

I think you are over reacting. Bbob contribution to the site is useful in my opinion so I think your offence against him has somethink to do with his critical remarks about your comparison

bbob, kindly stick to objective comments on products you've used, which do not appear to include some that you've slagged off here in the past, and save your quite boring personal abuse for your employees and friends, if you have any

here we go again. Big ego Andy, who seems to be a moderator here, again feels that he has to attack me and help his little friend easygossip.

Andy, read prions reaction. It seems that he does now what I mean, I am critial. But your comment again confirm to me how predictable you are. Making a critical comment here does not seem te be allowed.

And yes Andy again you choose to take the side of your probably friend easygossip, who choose to make it personal and you feel like you have to add something to this. Well you as a moderator should really know better.

"bbob, kindly stick to objective comments on products you've used, which do not appear to include some that you've slagged off here in the past"

Andy please explain me what this remark has to do with this thread ?

I can tell you nothing ! as it just shows your frustration of me not crawling your ass and say yes master andy. But andy your not worth being a moderator here and to speak in your own words, if you have a problem sent a personal mail. But you seem to forget your own remarks on this or is it like you can follow different rules, it does seem to look like that.

So know go and complain about my post to the other mod team here or if your really sick, delete it, or even better just ban me.

Hi BePop,

would you please be so kind and keep your comments for your self!

I´m not interessted in them and I think other members feel the same way, if you don´t like this place don´t use it for your self-representation and leave.

:p happy easter days

It's reasonably obvious: I [futilely] suggested you desist from personal abuse.

And if you want to discuss anatomy any further, I'm sure you can find more suitable places.

@easyroam
The comparsion in your first posting assumes the UM+ SIM to cost € 39, but actually it is available practically for free since December, if you order it through this link.

Regarding your tariffs neither 078 nor 079 can convince me - incoming calls are charged in a lot of countries, where I enjoyed free incoming calls with UM+ recently (New Zealand, Mauritius, Tanzania) and outgoing calls are more expensive than UM+ in most places.

Moreover the annual network fee of £12, which applies for your 079-service, isn't a bargain, too.

Even if you underbid UM+, I'd prefer them over some backyard company, after we saw a lot of roaming discounters failing suddenly and correspondingly SIM cards out of service in the past. So better rely on a big player with eBay/Skype as an investor in the background.

Beyond that the inbound numbers for Austria and Germany, which you offer, are unattractive, as they are relatively expensive to call, so callers better dial directly the British number.

As regards to your information on "GSM Networks" 3G primarily operates at 2100 MHz. Further bands are allocated at 850 MHz (e.g. Australia & Brazil), 900 MHz (e.g. Europe), 1700 MHz (e.g. USA), 1900 MHz (e.g. Jersey & South America) and 850/1900 (e.g. North America). However there's no 3G network on the 450 MHz-band, which you mention. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands).

Lastly let me mention that your website's appearance isn't very professional - neihter by design nor by the content (especially the inconvenient and inconsistent tariff calculators). You should consider visualizing information on roaming countires by a coloured map.

Hello to all,
I have been following this forum for a while, but not registrated until now. But I have to ask: I though this was a forum for gsm customers to get tips how to call cheaper, not for resellers to promote their products, but this thread suprises me...
Why are every one jumping on bbob? He just points at the facts... I travelling alot and have tried the most of the cards mentioned here, but for sure I would never use "easyroams's" card, because it's just to expensive.
And Andy (moderator?) why are you defending this easy roam guy? It's obvious he is just trying to sell his product, You say bbob is abusing this "easyroam"? Can you please give an example? because in my opion bbob is just telling things that is obvious. I think maybe you are involved in easyroam's business in some kind of way, which is sad. Maybe you should think about leaving this forum as a moderator to some one else that is not involved in some of this companies...

You are mistaken; bbob has generically criticised all +447 roaming SIMs except one and the German Vistream ones as well, using scarcely any objective information. I am involved in none of them, except to have some SIMs as an ordinary customer.

@pelle500

yeah ... sure! :rolleyes:

... ok, what is the essential content of this statement? Are you concerned of not getting objective informations or do you feel your feelings hurt?

No, he does not. In this case/thread he is aggressive and provocative. I´m as thread reader, I´m null and zero interested in his non saying comments.

Me too, but this fact is not about this thread, so stay straight. Easyroam asked a question, nothing more - nothing less.

:D ... who are you? Coming to this place, first statement and you act like you own this forum. :D

... and in my opinion he does have a attention deficit syndrome.

... and I think you are "PeeBob" registered under a new account and you should have enough balls to stay your position when you start a fight.

Sick little Andy, again you are a big liar. I use UM+ myself and although there have been some prbolems in the beginning like caller id I am happy with UM+ which is a +447 number, so stop being a liar

"all ... except one", I said, which you appear to have just confirmed.

I have no idea why you continue with such abusive personal attacks, and rely on such distortion to support your arguments, but it is really becoming terminally boring.

As for lies, on a previous occasion you accused me of this, I quoted you saying exactly the thing you denied ever having said, about the dual-ID vistream SIMs.

As I've said before, please comment on products you've actually used, and don't make up conjectures and innuendoes about those you have not. I'll be interested if you review a roaming SIM card with a Dutch mobile number

andy abusive personal attacks.

Lets get to the facts here which you don't seem to do and keep on digging old stuff out of the closet.

Easyroam post something here which in my opinion is just done to promote his business.

The comparisment he makes is not a comparisment because he just picks out 1 thing, the cost of his card and in his comparisment it looks like he is cheap.

I am critical and respond to that.

Easyroam finds it necessary to respond en than start personal abuse against me.
You as a moderator should have taken action against that, but no you behave like a little child and forget that you have the name tag moderator here.

Instead on giving a reply about this thread you choose to support easyroam to make it personal.

Than you start crying that I make it personal against you. Andy read page 1,2 and 3, post by post and see how it develops. If you have any brains, no where it there any line from you about this thread and the comparisment of easyroam but the only thing you do is insult me, tell lies and keep on repeating your old stuff like a broken record.

As for Mr johndoe, the name speaks for itself. I want you to take back the accusation of me posting under a different name. If moderator Andy has any guts he can check the ip of the poster and will see it's not mine. I post under my own name and have no problems doing that. I don't need this kind of shit.

So andy behave like a moderator and remove the remark of me posting under a different name.

as for: "all ... except one", I said, which you appear to have just confirmed.

there are many other +44-7 numbers which I have even never commented on and you liar now that. So go and do your homework. Give my a list of +44-7 companies and the ones I have been critial about. Let me guess you can't comeup with a list like this just because there are so many suppliers of +44-7 numbers and sure I have critized callkey but we all know this fuckup. If I read the forum callblue seems to go into the same direction but be a man comeup with the list or are you just another liar.

Ok, Mr. PeeBlob,

I think I have a nice nick :D, don´t you?

No. :D

I´m not informed about Andys size, but mine are bigger than you would expect. :p ... by the way I can change my IP within seconds :rolleyes:

Even though I have to say this is all quite entertaining :D I have a question for easyroam in attempt of slightly getting this thread back on topic. Has your SIM always been zero cost since writing the 1st post or is this something you recently changed and then you have subsequently edited the post? I recall it being GBP9. I note your front page has also changed since the last cache on 16/03. Is this GBP29 for GBP29 a special offer you have just launched?

In any case it would also be useful if you would also edit and add the costs of the other SIM's in the leading post after they have been mentioned in this thread. e.g. UM+ and Yackie are also zero just like yours.

I'm one of the 2 Administrators of this website and I'm actually sick and tired to read the usual OT discussions always involving bbob, easyroam and our moderator Andy.

Since we are not at kindergarten but on a public forum about mobile operators, please STOP this idiot-talking right now or, for the first time on this board, we'll have to start using our moderation powers and ban someone.

As I already told more than once: I don't accept SPAM from dealers/resellers, etc. I can accept EasyRoam as Yackie Mobile and others to HELP their customers on this forum, but not to promote their services. You are all adult people and can understand the difference, so please do what I kindly ask.

Now back on topic of I close the thread.

bbob, kindly save your profane language, such as ass and fuck, for elsewhere

If you read the forum, you'll see that Callblue may well be working again soon

That constitutes your generic criticism of all except one, exactly as I said. But

What are the feature sets that SHOULD be used to compare cards?
If one were to prepare a spreadsheet, what headings should be used?

Price - incl. air time - expiration date if no recharge - monthly/yearly fee -

country number on card - home country of provider


Anything else? Including call pricing for almost infinite variables would be too complicated

Seems like warnings of you have no effect on Andy as again even after your post he finds it usefull to keep on posting things which have nothing to do with this thread.

He keeps on quoting things which are irrelevant to this thread or they are taken out of their context. As I said I will not exept lies.

As for the quote:

"For now the only true seriously working sim card using a +44 number seems to be united mobile."

Andy very well knows that this has to be seen in the context it was placed in and the time it was made. The words "for now" clearly indicate at that given point in time, which means that yesterday, last week, next month's things could be different again.

To give another example for now, I find andy a big .... but this is for now, maybe in 1 week we will be best friends :)

i just hate it when things are blown up or taken out of their context. Why Andy has to do this, no idea and effindi I can only suggest you to close this thread as moderator andy keeps going on even after your warning. And I admit straightaway that I keep continuing if and admin does not stop him. Also if he can't behave like a moderator should do, take action.

for Andy it would be better not to be a moderator so he can talk free like he wants, support whoever he wants without haveing to think that he still is a moderator here, which he seems to forget at the time.

You've accused me about 10 times of lying, yet again now.

As context to your generalised remarks back then: the first reply, from prion, pointed out that there were other reliable products on the market, such as Telestial/Ekit.

In addition, there was already info then that the ex-Callkey SIM cards would work again, and despite your scepticism and personal attacks on people who said it would happen, it did indeed. Easyroam was and is again one of the resellers of these, so perhaps this is germane to the nature of your criticism then and now. I also referred back then to potential new entrants, some of which have since arrived, with one or two more perhaps still expected.

If you are not interested in these products then ignore them, but if you are then please deal in objective facts not lazy innuendoes about them. The ex-Callkey SIMs are working again, and the time for you to swear about your frustration with them is past.

What can one do about two trolls feeding each other?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...dTroll.svg.png

Speaking of those who have been here explaining their products, we have our dear friend Yackie Mobile....when last seen (or heard from) he was telling us of the wonderful new sim card that would work in the USA that would be available pretty soon....whatever happened to it? YM come back and tell us where we stand on that.

Andy what is your problem, it looks like I am some sort of obsession for you. You even mention other forums where you seem to be watching me and what I am doing. This really looks like an absession and be carefull with obsessions, you might need mental help for that :-)

Now you keep continue the old stuff, callkey. How many times do I have to hear this. Will you continue with this 1,2 or 5 years. You again look like a broken record playing the same tune over and over again. But wait you want me crawling on my knees saying yes master andy I am sorry I was wrong and next time I will listen to master andy, keep on dreaming.

Now where in this thread have you give any comment on easyroams comprasiment. I have asked you this but you fail to do that.
Even your admin has asked you to stick to this thread but your obsession makes you just continue like you always do.

Again stop being a moderator here, you keep on showing over and over again that you just can't be a moderator here and get rid of your obsession.

:D:D

Will he come back ever again? :D

Seriously, since the last discussion about the availability of the SIM card he is a kind of disappeared.

They renewed their web site more bad as well. The SIM number is still not available from various network operators.

Ok, it's time to close the thread.