Forum: Europe
30-05-2009, 23:36
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Replies: 72
Views: 109,909
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
29-05-2009, 01:43
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,601
3 did that as well for some of its European...
3 did that as well for some of its European customers but as I think I have read, it's ending that.
Also, Australia is a poor example as the way mobiles operate is more or less on the European...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
28-05-2009, 01:15
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,601
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
27-05-2009, 17:47
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,601
Well that is sort of what I said in the other...
Well that is sort of what I said in the other thread....it really does gall me about international roaming rates, especially on the part of T Mobile USA when, as I've said at other times, if one...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
27-05-2009, 16:54
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Replies: 201
Views: 80,566
The demise of UM certainly came like a bolt out...
The demise of UM certainly came like a bolt out of the blue, but clearly the signs were there i.e. the 0,19€ set up fee for receiving free calls but when all is said and done, unless I really miss my...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
26-05-2009, 20:09
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Replies: 201
Views: 80,566
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
26-05-2009, 18:29
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Replies: 201
Views: 80,566
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
24-05-2009, 00:10
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Replies: 201
Views: 80,566
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
23-05-2009, 14:50
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Replies: 201
Views: 80,566
Got the card through telestial and putting it...
Got the card through telestial and putting it through some testing....
Am in the USA....calls to the +1 number complete fairly quickly...have no idea of the quality of the call as I am not...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
23-05-2009, 13:43
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Replies: 22
Views: 8,677
The genesis of international cards were, of...
The genesis of international cards were, of course, the asininely high roaming rates that telcoms have used as a cash cow.....we see how many of the international cards have met their demise due to...
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Forum: Germany
23-05-2009, 11:46
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Replies: 13
Views: 9,215
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
22-05-2009, 10:18
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Replies: 201
Views: 80,566
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
17-05-2009, 20:20
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Replies: 17
Views: 7,789
Let me try to explain my thinking on this...
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Let me try to explain my thinking on this...
In the "glory" days of UM (AKA riing), I used both cbw and enlinea for my calls out along with the free calls in. I was paying something like 14¢...
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Forum: UK & Ireland
17-05-2009, 12:04
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
Here's the quote I was referring to:
"With...
Here's the quote I was referring to:
"With our promotion you can sit on the beach with your phone switched on knowing you can take and make a call just as you would if you were in your back...
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Forum: UK & Ireland
17-05-2009, 00:16
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
Stu...
Do remember that verizon is not a...
Stu...
Do remember that verizon is not a gsm carrier......vodafone did make a bid to buy AT&T's gsm network when it went up for sale which cingular purchased and changed the name back to AT&T....
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Forum: UK & Ireland
17-05-2009, 00:15
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
15-05-2009, 19:44
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
babble...
It should only take one...that's...
babble...
It should only take one...that's what happened as I pointed out elsewhere in the USA...today it is unheard of on most of the USA cell carriers to have a litimed calling area...the USA...
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Forum: UK & Ireland
15-05-2009, 13:21
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
15-05-2009, 04:41
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Replies: 17
Views: 7,789
But it wasn't always this way.....I remember a...
But it wasn't always this way.....I remember a trip I took in 2005 to Central Europe...I used call forwarding on my Verizon landline through my ld carrier AT&T to my riing (UM was called that then)...
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 22:59
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
Well obviously, if I were in Germany even if I...
Well obviously, if I were in Germany even if I didn't go to the UK, I could easily pick up a vodafone UK sim card for next to nothing on ebay, top it up with a vodafone de voucher, and be able to...
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 21:38
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 20:36
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 20:33
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 20:31
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 20:30
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 20:28
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: UK & Ireland
14-05-2009, 20:24
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Replies: 80
Views: 28,110
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
13-05-2009, 12:23
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Replies: 17
Views: 7,789
A total guess by me....
This business has...
A total guess by me....
This business has been very gravely affected by the push by the eu to cap roaming rates. Europeans (and I'm not so perhaps some of them here can chime in) used to cross...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
06-05-2009, 15:19
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Replies: 177
Views: 51,386
Whilte I agree with your sentiments and am...
Whilte I agree with your sentiments and am certainly not necessarily a fan of Yackie (although I have nothing against them either), I don't think they can be blamed for the fiasco of O9 which until...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
05-05-2009, 10:22
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Replies: 177
Views: 51,386
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
29-04-2009, 14:14
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
24-04-2009, 15:44
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
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Forum: Europe
22-04-2009, 14:46
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Replies: 22
Views: 13,042
I believe, and the many Europeans here can...
I believe, and the many Europeans here can correct me if I'm wrong, the ultimate purpose of all this is to turn the eu into something akin to the USA with the various countries playing the role the...
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Forum: Germany
21-04-2009, 16:42
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,411
I had a vodafone de sim card for several years...
I had a vodafone de sim card for several years (interestingly enough, they just disabled it despie the fact I sent a couple of text messages and have apparently stolen my credit. I thought this was...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
21-04-2009, 14:58
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
21-04-2009, 01:26
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
Well I wouldn't say I'm necessarily all that...
Well I wouldn't say I'm necessarily all that optimistic; however didn't many of the Isle of Man sim cards come back from the dead a couple of years ago? Does sound like a funding problem, don't you...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
17-04-2009, 08:08
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
So let's cut to the chase...
1. My UM+44...
So let's cut to the chase...
1. My UM+44 gives the fatal sim card registration failed message which usually coincides with a dead account (that was my first indication O9 had kicked the bucket)....
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
17-04-2009, 05:20
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
11-04-2009, 20:44
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
10-04-2009, 15:55
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Replies: 10
Views: 7,877
Mr. Easy Roam:
Sir in all due respect to...
Mr. Easy Roam:
Sir in all due respect to you, how do you know your company is so much smarter than UM? (And no, I'm not a UM employee or apologist or anything like that)....what evidence do you...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
09-04-2009, 14:31
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Replies: 10
Views: 7,877
Just some skepticism...UM has been promising a...
Just some skepticism...UM has been promising a dual UK/USA sim is coming (of course so is Xmas)
Easy roam and others of the same type (Geosim?) have been saying a dual UK?USA sim is coming (so is...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
05-04-2009, 21:11
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Replies: 173
Views: 51,309
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
30-03-2009, 13:40
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Replies: 137
Views: 55,470
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
14-03-2009, 15:59
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Replies: 137
Views: 55,470
I agree with much of the above.....the only...
I agree with much of the above.....the only addition I might add is that significant to the whole discussion is cheap outgoing as well as free incioming at least for me. I know, I know, this is not...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
14-03-2009, 12:25
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Replies: 137
Views: 55,470
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
14-03-2009, 09:26
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Replies: 137
Views: 55,470
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
14-03-2009, 01:49
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Replies: 137
Views: 55,470
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
13-03-2009, 07:39
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Replies: 137
Views: 55,470
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
09-03-2009, 14:23
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,519
Free inbound roaming in the USA......I thought...
Free inbound roaming in the USA......I thought the way the cell phone operators operate in the USA prevents that from happening (we pay for airtime here both to call and to receive it is not caller...
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Forum: International GSM prepaid cards
06-03-2009, 05:15
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Replies: 38
Views: 16,209
Well so far, the only one that has been...
Well so far, the only one that has been relatively stable, and I understand the word relatively is well very relative, has been United Mobile...for the most part they've worked and I haven't lost a...
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