Lycamobile US?
 

I was looking at the Lycamobile Spain site, and saw they were offering free calls to Lycamoible US. I had no idea it (Lycamobile US) existed, but the website exists.

It's very strange.

If you go to the roaming page, it shows free incoming calls in many countries - Japan, China, Europe, even when the outgoing rates are very high. If this is really correct, this would be a good deal - a free SIM with free incoming calls in much of the world.

It's also impossible to order the free SIM - it asks you to fill in your zipcode and select and address, but the functionality does not work.

If you call the customer service number on the site, you get a British-style ring, but no one ever answers.

Lycamobile information
 

Lycamobile | Low Cost international calls | Best international SIM card | Free SIMs


Choose any address and then edit it to be correct. It works for most people.
They are being too clever with that form.

Check out this thread in the Americas section of this forum::
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/amer...html#post42236

See this thread in another forum::
Lycamobile coming to the U.S. and Canada

Unfortunately the street name field is disabled. So, unless your street is in the ones displayed, you will not be able to order a sim. Been at this address/zipcode for over 13 years, and it did not show up. What a joke!Whatever database they used to populate streets for the zipcode must be really out of date.

this database tool is really creepy. I also had to ring up customer service cause my house number didnt show up.

Lycamobile is supposed to launch in Canada real soon. It would be really cool if they could do a blended North American plan. My suspicion is that Toggle will eventually fold in the US (and hopefully Canada).

PAYGO working and new plan. Lower PAYGO talk charge
 

I received my SIM today via UPS 2nd day air.

PAYGO is now working according to CS.

Went to the web site and they have lowered the talk rate for PAYGO:

And added another 'plan':

I am going to wait until April to activate, so I have to trust them that PAYGO is now working.

Activation
 

It was relatively easy to activate and top up.

Well, that´s only normal. Incomming calls ARE free in almost the whole world, with the exception of very few countries.

I wouldn't place big bets on that lasting forever. The number of countries where the associated brand Toggle has free incoming calls has dropped from over 140 to about 60 to just over 20, with some more with zero per minute plus a connection fee

Most seem to be 30 cents a minute incoming now.
 

Most seem to be 30 cents a minute incoming now. I think they started up the website before they had finished filling in the rates.

I was refering to 3GSM-nets in general. Very few of these nets have fees for incomming calls. I know only of the nets in two countries, Canada and USA, but there are perhaps more.

The situation for international prepaids differ. They have to make money in different manners.

Yes, that seems to be the matter for Lycamobile US. I was mainly stating that 3GSM-nets very seldom charge for incomming calls, but some international prepaids differ in that sense.

I ordered one two weeks ago and haven't received it. What is it running? I just checked their inbound rates while roaming and the free has disappeared. $1.84 inbound in Canada.

I'm sorry, could you rephrase the question?

For international use one would probably really need to use it in the countries
that it does have good rates. On the other hand, it never hurts to have an
extra SIM to use when others fail. Of course, if they all fail your're hosed.

My point was two weeks ago, it said that inbound calls in Canada were free.

I think it is more incompetence [see free SIM address snafu]than evil intentions.
As I said earlier in this thread:
It will be interesting to see what they will look like 90 days from now.

I agree. I'm actually thinking about Lyca at a second house we are building for its prepaid data for one purpose only. We are going to have home monitoring system -- alarm, thermostat, etc. It will need an internet connection to report back, but won't need much data. six cents a meg seems perfect for something like that.

Well, as long as they don't charge for data in some wierd way that would really disadvantage such a low data usage!

You should be good with it as long as the thermostat is not one of the new Honeywell WiFi ones. I've got one, love it, but it's a chatterbox. It keeps talking to mother ship all the time.

I think of a Nest.

Lycamobile has reshuffled their plans.
 

After having dropped their $19 plan they have now added a $16 plan.
[250 minutes, Unlimited Text (US & International), 50 MB Data]

Unlimited National Plans -Minutes, Texts and Data + Cheap International calls | Lycamobile

how or where can i get a Lycamobile US simcard in europe?

90 days later
 

SIM is still free but has $7 shipping & handling charge.
$19 plan is gone. There is now a $16 plan.
Website works better.

resellers on eBay?

> After having dropped their $19 plan they have now added a $16 plan.
[250 minutes, Unlimited Text (US & International), 50 MB Data]

from 1 to 3 changes offers per month. at anytime !! with no warning...

welcome on lycamobile world, we know this since 2011 in France ;)

Note for anyone looking to buy a Lyca SIM in the US: If you add $5 of credit to your SIM, shipping will be free. Once you do this you can also get up to 3 other SIMs shipped free.

From the slickdeals forum post.

There is now a $10 minimum credit.