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bbob · 13-07-2007, 15:07

Ask yourself why would you choose a provider that offers no roaming for many countries.

As there are many type of customers all have different reasons.

Business customers do not care if someone need to call an expensive lichtenstein mobile number. On the other hand not too many business customers know of UM. Most true business customers have 1 GSM with a local carrier so they have great rates in their home country and they can be reached on 1 number.

Other customers are for personal use, going on holiday etc. These type of customers look after pricing and calling an expensive lichtenstein number is not very good.

There are more examples. I have both UM and IOM cell phone but as said UM will stop in some time because of the bad rates but more important some of my customers seem to be blocked by their local carrier and unable to call to UM numbers. Also some customers ask what funny number do you have. A +44 number just looks better and more serious.
UM will still have a great market but at the moment I see many disadvantages compared to IOM cards.
What this invester will change in that, no idea.

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bbob (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 499 Join Date: 20 Feb 2007 Country:	13-07-2007, 15:07 Ask yourself why would you choose a provider that offers no roaming for many countries. As there are many type of customers all have different reasons. Business customers do not care if someone need to call an expensive lichtenstein mobile number. On the other hand not too many business customers know of UM. Most true business customers have 1 GSM with a local carrier so they have great rates in their home country and they can be reached on 1 number. Other customers are for personal use, going on holiday etc. These type of customers look after pricing and calling an expensive lichtenstein number is not very good. There are more examples. I have both UM and IOM cell phone but as said UM will stop in some time because of the bad rates but more important some of my customers seem to be blocked by their local carrier and unable to call to UM numbers. Also some customers ask what funny number do you have. A +44 number just looks better and more serious. UM will still have a great market but at the moment I see many disadvantages compared to IOM cards. What this invester will change in that, no idea.