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A few points come to mind................
1. Some of us have already invested in UM and other cards. Numbers given out and known.
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Yes, UM is quite expensive to compare with national SIMs. E.g. I paid for mine 42 EUR with 15 EUR credit included. Never had to pay as much as 27 EUR for a "national" empty SIM :P. Moreover, when I (and some others of us) bought a UM (then Riiing) SIM, there were no alternative with free incoming calls...
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2. Change is painful.
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Did you hurt your finger(s) when you were changing SIMs :P?
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3. Check out the coverage or lack of it on the IOM cards. Friend going to Honduras on a mission trip from church; no coverage with GT-SIM, but UM has it covered. I think it is 80 versus 120 UM countries.
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Yes, coverage is a real issue and Manx cards are missing quite many countries even in Europe (Belarus, Moldova, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo). UM is missing
only Faeroe, Jersey and just Isle of Man
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4. Can use CBW to reduce rates with UM.
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As well as almost the same with 09 (which has even larger coverage than UM, and about 110 countries with free incomimg calls)....
I think that handset compatibility may be also an issue....Manx SIMs seem to be more "restrictive" :P
After all, it's impossible to say which sim is the best/worst or even determine "better- worse" for any two of them....