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Originally Posted by prion
I was also wondering about this. My sense was that incoming calls are probably free for all operators and not only for the global sims. I do not know if this is true.....
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Hmm, I don't know what do you really mean by "free incoming calls are probably for all operators".
I think that incoming calls in roaming might be free for the receiving party but do not have to. It depends how much is necessary to call such a roaming SIM. If you have a European SIM roaming in another European country, and no matter from where you are calling, you have to pay 30 eurocents/min or more to reach that SIM, then it would be enough to cover the cost of forwarding a mobile network in another country. But think about a network which has 5 milion users, and most or all of those users have tariff plans with on-net rate, let's say 10 eurocents/min. How could they have free incoming calls in roaming when 10 eurocents is just too little to forward a call to a foreign network? It doesn't even matter that those who call to that network from "outside" (from another networks in the same country or from abroad) pay more, possibly much enough to cover the forwarding....
Of course, I think that even there must be fees for incoming calls in roaming, they should be much lower than they really are :unsure: