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Has anyone tried using GT SIM cards ? what do you people think of the quality of the calls and prices compared to the worldwide market? Just interested in your opinion and thoughts/ideas..

It's good for 3 reasons
-low cost for outgoings calls
-without set-up fee
-gprs capabilities, even if it's a bit expensive

Not good for incoming calls, free only in EU

Thank you for your reply. But GT offers free roaming in US.

It's not true. In US you pay again incoming calls: http://gt-sim.de/download/sim/PriceList_eng.pdf

yes, you are right for now but it will be free in about 1-1,5 months

What's your source?:whistling:

GT management

When they actually have free incoming calls in USA, together perhaps with other providers who have been promising cheap roaming (but not free), I'm sure people will be pleased to try it out.

Until then, there's not much point in asking us what we think of the call quality there, or pretending [post #3] that it's already available

Other global SIMs already have ways to get cheap roaming in USA, involving call forwarding and a local SIM, or it's quite easy for people to set up cheap forwarding themselves

That's similar to what they said when I got a GT-sim in 2005: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/gt-sim-t706p6.html (they claimed it would be reduced in Feb 2006). Never happened that time. Believe it when you see it (and if they sustain it for more than a promotional period), otherwise just vapourware.

GT-SIM now offers a SIM package including a Quad-Band-GSM phone for 99,95 Euro including 100 Euro of call credit.
Might be interesting for some people here.

Chris

Hello people. A little bit of an update on the roaming scene. Check out the GT-SIM new price plan at http://gt-sim.com/download/sim/PriceList_eng.pdf
Regards
Dan

Here we go again, another unclear website.

The link to the priclist says 0 cents surcharge for incoming calls for profi plusin certain countries. Profi plus cost the same and has lower rates.

On the website of gt-sim.com when selecting your plan it says holiday plus, free incoming calls (*) For profi plus it says incoming call 0.09 euro

In the pricelist now where they mention the 0.09 euro for incoming calls, only when selecting your plan.

This makes the plan very unclear. a pricelist should be clear and this one is not, do you pay 0.09 cent extra for the profi plus yes or now ?

I don't know and as it is unclear for me it's yet another site playing around with rates and hidding surcharges.

I suggest you to read the news in red colour in that site...:rolleyes:

news in red colour ?

www.gt-sim.com only shows:

HOME
PRICE LIST
BUY NOW
DOWNLOAD

CONTACT US
THE COMPANY
NEED HELP

So no help.

I did notice the ** in the pricelist for minimum monthly charges, the are 0 but:

** If there are no calling activities within a period of 3 months, a rental charge of Euro 9,95 for the number will be automatically deducted from the account.
To avoid these charges simply top up your account by Euro 25,00 and the life time of your number will be extended for another 3 month at a time.

So when calling it a holiday card you normally only use it once or twice per year, meaning that there is a good chance you will not be using it for 3 month's, meaning 9,95 extra cost for every 3 month's.

Most other cards have a 9-12 month's time period.

These little things do make the difference between 1 card and the other.

bbob it's not so difficult to click on "price list" and there you see quite a clear table where the differences between the 2 plans are very clear. The unclear things are if you take a look at GT-Phone website...

http://gt-sim.com/order_now/Register...ain=gt-sim.com

links to the ordering page. Select your plan, holiday or profi.

The difference is 0.09 cent for incoming calls.

so yes when going to the pricelist I can only asume that:

* (surcharges apply, when calling out in these countries or receiving calls while in these countries)

the 0 cent means there is no surchage on top of the 0.09 euro per minute for the profi.

As there is a big difference in rates between the profi and holiday there must be a reason for this and that will be the 0.09 euro for the profi rate.

My only point is that this is very unclear. When goging direct to the pricelist this 0.09 euro is not mentioned anywhere only when selecting a plan you see it.

Also the fee after 3 month's for non use makes this card not very interesitng for holiday users.

Can you see this page?
http://gt-sim.com/prices/prices.php?...ain=gt-sim.com

It seems 100% clear to me and that's what you see when you click on "Price List" which is supposed to be the page with the... guess what... price list! There's also a link to the "complete price list" where all the surcharges are listed.

There are many things to criticize this offer, maybe, but surely not that page...