upcoming features on United Mobile
 

In an interview with teltarif.de (a german telco online-magazine) the CEO of United Mobile Charles Fränkl announced some upcoming features:

1) by the end of this year they will offer also SIM cards with german numbers
2) next year cards with russian numbers will follow.
3) the GPRS data for ICQSIM will be expanded to about 30 countries within this year
4) data will also be made available for existing +423 customers within the next 6 weeks
5) sooner or later they will offer all services on one card

The whole article in german language can be found here: http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2008/kw06/s28746.html

Chris

regarding point 4.) your information isn't correct. The article says GPRS/UMTS service will be available for new customers within six weeks, however it's still not clear, if data services will be available for existing customers.

Further you forgot to mention, that Fränkl announced US-based numbers to become available soon, too.

you forget to mention that the will also offer a usa based number, at least that it what the article says.

Yeah nice...but any indication that they can solve the big problem of all these carriers namely the inability to provide reasonable rates in the USA and Canada....

American #s also this year.

My +423 card is inactive since I took their upgrade to the UM+ card and transferred the balance(spent all except 6 Euro on a trip to the UK). Curious to see if I will be able to add any balance to the inactive +423 card when they do the upgrades, or whether it's defunct and I'll need to get an ICQ card.

Also curious to see if they can get decent +423/ICQ data rates for North America and the Caribbean for the +423 cards, even though as others have noted, their voice rates are pretty bad in some countries (USA, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Cuba).

The Carribean is always tough because many of the countries make far more money from roamers than their domestic use