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MATHA531 · 04-09-2006, 12:35

I've gone around in a circle on this and based on several factors now believe that the best bet, and I emphasize as it stands today, is United Mobile although it is far from perfect.

As long as Callbackworld can hold onto its 14?/minute charge to the USA and in that vicinity for calls to other landlines I really found there was no need for local sims on my most recent trip through several countries in Europe. I had usually wanted local sims in any country I plopped down for a while but for example I had such trouble with my TIM card....when I arrived in Italy and wanted to recharge it I got some sort of idiotic message that my details were not on record (it worked the last time I was in Italy) and I would have to find a TIM shop which I couldn't do so I fell back on United Mobile and had no problems whatsoever even for some local calls in Italy and the price I pad was around 14.9 ? /minute or something like that.

Of course the two big advantages I have is that my local landline provider, Verizon in the USA, allows remote call forwarding on my landline and my ld carrier in the USA, AT&T has a plan whereby calls that are forwarded to me on my United Mobile mobile cost me 10?/minute, don't think you can beat that.

In the UK I've been using O2 but call forwarding via AT&T cost 30?/minute or thereabouts and I tried voicestick and although Bruce was very helpful there is a big problem that I get charged for a 5 minute call everytime a call goes into my voicemail. I've brought this to their attention and am very disappointed they haven't been able to resolve the issue.

What next year will bring, of course, is another story.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	04-09-2006, 12:35 I've gone around in a circle on this and based on several factors now believe that the best bet, and I emphasize as it stands today, is United Mobile although it is far from perfect. As long as Callbackworld can hold onto its 14?/minute charge to the USA and in that vicinity for calls to other landlines I really found there was no need for local sims on my most recent trip through several countries in Europe. I had usually wanted local sims in any country I plopped down for a while but for example I had such trouble with my TIM card....when I arrived in Italy and wanted to recharge it I got some sort of idiotic message that my details were not on record (it worked the last time I was in Italy) and I would have to find a TIM shop which I couldn't do so I fell back on United Mobile and had no problems whatsoever even for some local calls in Italy and the price I pad was around 14.9 ? /minute or something like that. Of course the two big advantages I have is that my local landline provider, Verizon in the USA, allows remote call forwarding on my landline and my ld carrier in the USA, AT&T has a plan whereby calls that are forwarded to me on my United Mobile mobile cost me 10?/minute, don't think you can beat that. In the UK I've been using O2 but call forwarding via AT&T cost 30?/minute or thereabouts and I tried voicestick and although Bruce was very helpful there is a big problem that I get charged for a 5 minute call everytime a call goes into my voicemail. I've brought this to their attention and am very disappointed they haven't been able to resolve the issue. What next year will bring, of course, is another story.