True, but it would have been nice if UM had warned us about the shortcomings of the UM+ SIM - I took the UM+ SIM to Paris, but left the old UM SIM at home.
I've just done a rough analysis of my UM+ usage in Paris and compared it to my O2 contract roaming bill and found that, with inbound roaming calls costing 22 euro cents a mnute and outbound costing 50 euro cents a minute, it's clearly a lot cheaper (i.e. free) to use UM+ for inbound roaming, and 20 per cent cheaper for outbound roaming.
BUT - it's a lot more convenient to use my O2 mobile when roaming for calls, especially as my number is well known to all my friends and family.
And that's a big but, especially given UM+'s crappy inbound service when the phone is switched off or out of range.
The difference is around £50.00 for 10 days in Paris and (I calculate) £30.00 using UM+.
Is it really worth the hassle, I ask myself...
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Originally Posted by Bossman
That's probably the reason why they allowed free upgrade to the new sim for current UM customers, an most importantly, they allowed us to keep the +423 number too...to fall back on I guess.
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[size=2]Steve Gold
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