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Originally Posted by gsmmaster
Generically speaking, mobile operators sometimes exchange roaming agreements amongst themselves, when this happens they have to deny access in their own networks due to the subscriber then appearing to them as a local subscriber, which they don't have any record of, on the other hand the same subscriber gains access to many countries that would not make commercial sense for their operator to do direct agreements with.
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Sorry..I'm dense...are you saying that, generically speaking of course, in order not to have sit around and make roaming agreements with 190 different operators, you make roaming arrangements with a few and receive the roaming arrangements they have but in the process you have to sacrifice the ability of your own subscribers to roam in that country so that by, generically speaking of course, O9 had to make an agreement say with Swiss operators that in order to dig into their data base of roaming partners, they had to agree that their own subscribers could not roam there.
Makes no sense to me...it doesn't seem as if this "problem" has occurred with any of the Estonian, Liectenstein, Isle of Man (when they were living of course) or Jersey operators.