SIM4Travel, +447509 number / Truphone buys Sim4travel [merged]
 

Seems to be awefully silent around them. has any one tried SIM4Travel's new +44 card?

SIM4Travel, +447509 number
 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SIM4-Travel-CH...QQcmdZViewItem

Is this a new number range?

They started issuing their UM+ SIMs about September, all with that prefix as far as I know

Anybody here who is using S4T?

I do use their service since 09/07. No problems and cheap rates within the EU.

I do use this service parallel to YM.

Sim4Travel +447509 number
 

Hi
I've just registred a sim4Travel card and be given a +44 7509 number
As for now it works fine in Germany and France to receive Free call
But I can't find out how much people who called me will be charged
as this number appears differently on some carrier, UK number, UK mobile number, Jersey Number... ,
If you have more informations
Thanks'

I do got different prices starting from 15 Eurocent to 60 Eurocent.

Do you have any expiriences with this card in Monaco?

They do not have listed Monaco, but they do roam on SFR and as far as I know SFR is also availabel in MC.

S4Travel or united mob does not have free roaming in monaco.

The manx card has free roaming :p


easyroam

But you forgot to say that Monaco Telecom does not cover Monaco, but Kosovo...

So it would be better to say that any card with free incoming in France will have free incoming in Monaco too, since in the small country there are only the 3 French operators. While a prepaid card which claims to have free incoming in Monaco, will maybe have free incoming in Kosovo. BTW both +423 and UM+ have free incoming calls in Kosovo, i.e. Monaco Telecom.

I spoke a few weeks ago to the support of S4T and we came to the same point.

The S4T SIM is working in MC on one of the French roaming partners network, like SFR.

Does Sim4Travel only use the +44 assignment from UM, but have their own agreements....just noting from the fact that their list of Free Destinations isn't quite the same
(Plus there seem to be less issues reported here than with UM)

Also anybody hear about their acquisition by TruPhone http://www.totaltele.com/View.aspx?ID=9768&t=1

If Truphone manages to integrate VoIP over GSM this offer could get interesting

Truphone buys Sim4travel
 

Truphone picks up Sim4TravelYou ain't no one if you can't issue your own SIMs
By Bill Ray → More by this author
Published Friday 11th April 2008 15:51 GMT

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VoIP operator Truphone has snapped up cheapo-roaming operator SIM4 Travel, with a view to combining the operations and providing travellers with low-cost VoIP calls over cellular infrastructure.

Truphone has spent £1.34 million in cash, along with £1.3 million in shares, for the company whose own shares have been in steady decline since listing, with a value of £37.4 million, on the Ofex market back in 2006.

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SIM4Travel sells SIMs through Tesco, WH Smith and similar high-street stores, giving buyers a new phone number which receives calls for free and makes them at a reduced cost in a wide variety of countries.

Truphone provides a VoIP client for Nokia N and E-Series phones, allowing owners of those handsets to make cheap calls over Wi-Fi networks regardless of where they are in the world.

The company isn't commenting on plans, but it's easy to imagine a scenario similar to the 3UK/Skype arrangement. Calls made from a Truphone-equipped handset would be routed over the cellular network to the nearest Truphone hub, and then converted to VoIP connections for cheaper routing.

Where a Wi-Fi connection was available that would be unnecessary, but Wi-Fi is far from ubiquitous, and Truphone would like to be making money when you're not near a hotspot.

The purchase might also make it easier for Truphone to claim to be a mobile operator, and demand mobile termination fees. T-Mobile has been refusing to pay such fees on the grounds that a call to a Truphone customer might be routed over the internet (if the customer is connected to Wi-Fi at the time), and thus cost Truphone nothing to deliver.

That case is still winding its way through the British court system, but operating their own connections won't do Truphone any harm when it comes to proving their operator credentials. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...ne_sim4travel/

I think a couple of those assumptions show there are some things that TheReg reporter doesn't quite understand, like the termination fees

UM are also developing a convergence service/product combining VoIP with GSM/3G. If roaming data rates come down soon, I'm sure most of the roaming discounters will offer VoIP-over-3G (at least for outgoing calls) instead of the unreliable callback solutions. Beyond that it would make sense to route incoming and outgoing calls through wifi, if available. The Austrian operator A1 already offers a service called "A1 over IP", which allows receiving calls towards their cellular number through VoIP, so A1 customers can evade roaming fees if they have internet access and some VoIP device. Of course they can place outgoing calls at lower rates through "A1 over IP", too.

TMObile USA has this as well.