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MATHA531 · 25-07-2006, 16:07

Both enlinea and callbackworld are or at least have been very very reliable recently until this crash...one would assume at some point it will be repaired although it has lasted far longer than it should have (much like the blackout in New York City)...

Having said that, I wouldn't in general necessarily recommend one over the other...it doesn't hurt to open up accounts with both (I have); the accounts are free and to use the one which is cheaper with a particular sim card.

Currently callbackworld is best with Liechtenstein mobile i.e. United Mobile AKA riiing while enlinea has the best rates for O9...you can check individual rates on their respective web sites.

No you don't get double billed as long as you are using the service in a country where your sim card doesn't charge for receiving calls. It works like this...you open up an account say with callbackworld and they provide you what is best called a trigger number...it is a phone number in the United States...You ring that number the regular way i.e. with O9 and United Mobile and most of the other cheap international sim cards but not with local prepaid sims, that results in a callback...you want for the callback and with callbackworld you will hear a USA ring tone...you let it ring twice and you hang up. At that point your sim provider will or should not charge you (I think somebody has said there is a provider in Sloveniia who still charges even though the call has not been completed) as the call has not been completed...about 10 seconds later you get a callback (the 2nd if using one of the cheap international cards) and you will hear a pleasant female voice say, "Please enter phone number followed by the number sign key now" and so you do (you most assuredly do not press enter) and the call goes through..clarity of the calls is very dependent on the network you are on...it is clear they use ivoip providers which vary in call quality but no more than do the cheap international calling cards availble in today's world. So since you are rceiving at this point, and here is the big provision, if you are in a no charge receivng country for your sim, you don't pay them a red cent (be it US or euro) and pay the rate listed from the country of origin of the sim (Liechtenstein for United Mobile, Iceland for O9, Estonia I believe for another one) to wherever you are calling.

To me, they were (or hopefully still are) the best (help help Barry, please get this fixed)...

Hope that helps.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	25-07-2006, 16:07 Both enlinea and callbackworld are or at least have been very very reliable recently until this crash...one would assume at some point it will be repaired although it has lasted far longer than it should have (much like the blackout in New York City)... Having said that, I wouldn't in general necessarily recommend one over the other...it doesn't hurt to open up accounts with both (I have); the accounts are free and to use the one which is cheaper with a particular sim card. Currently callbackworld is best with Liechtenstein mobile i.e. United Mobile AKA riiing while enlinea has the best rates for O9...you can check individual rates on their respective web sites. No you don't get double billed as long as you are using the service in a country where your sim card doesn't charge for receiving calls. It works like this...you open up an account say with callbackworld and they provide you what is best called a trigger number...it is a phone number in the United States...You ring that number the regular way i.e. with O9 and United Mobile and most of the other cheap international sim cards but not with local prepaid sims, that results in a callback...you want for the callback and with callbackworld you will hear a USA ring tone...you let it ring twice and you hang up. At that point your sim provider will or should not charge you (I think somebody has said there is a provider in Sloveniia who still charges even though the call has not been completed) as the call has not been completed...about 10 seconds later you get a callback (the 2nd if using one of the cheap international cards) and you will hear a pleasant female voice say, "Please enter phone number followed by the number sign key now" and so you do (you most assuredly do not press enter) and the call goes through..clarity of the calls is very dependent on the network you are on...it is clear they use ivoip providers which vary in call quality but no more than do the cheap international calling cards availble in today's world. So since you are rceiving at this point, and here is the big provision, if you are in a no charge receivng country for your sim, you don't pay them a red cent (be it US or euro) and pay the rate listed from the country of origin of the sim (Liechtenstein for United Mobile, Iceland for O9, Estonia I believe for another one) to wherever you are calling. To me, they were (or hopefully still are) the best (help help Barry, please get this fixed)... Hope that helps.