Hello,
the IoM Reseller Globalsim Germany (
www.globalsim.de) announced in a recent newsletter, that they are sure, the old (Callkey) IoM SIM-Cards will be reconnected in midth of January, 2008. The old +44 7624 1xxxxx number and the amount will be there again, Globalsim says. Customers who don't believe in this or don't want to wait, are offered a germany based "Eco MaxxSIM" which is based on the german virtual "vistream" network (powered by Materna), which uses the Radio-Network of E-Plus in Germany.
International those vistream SIM-cards use a dual IMSI SIM-card which acts as a original E-Plus SIM and offers SAT based Callback-Roaming. Reports of users are ... quite mixed, some exotic countries (the Caribic, Former Yugoslavia countries) don't work at all or at unknown times of a day, only.
The Tariffs of Eco MaxxSim are just under construction, private tests resulted in 15 euro-cent per Minute to Germany fixed-landlines and 19 euro-cent per Minute to other mobile Providers. Calls to vistream-based-providers are free of charge at the moment, but be careful, this can be changed without further notice.
Swisscom Natel offers a 33% bonus if you recharge your NATEL by creditcard online at
www.swisscom-mobile.ch this SALE ends today Nov. 30th