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JohnCK · 31-07-2009, 13:49

Hi,

The reason that eKit do not have an annual renewal fee is that they more than recover these charges by having call set up fees on both inbound and outbound. SIM4Travel also charge a daily connection fee of 39p for this purpose. Please correct me if i am wrong but most honest users would not be in favour of this and would rather pay a very small annual fee to keep their SIM active.

People bang on about a fair usage policy. Do you not think that major MNOs like Vodafone and Orange have these in place? Subsidising free calls in certain countries costs money down all chains and i would suggest that the customers who never make outbound calls and only receive free abuse the system and are not wanted by any Global SIM Distributors, eKit included. Please rest assured that all Distributors monitor their users and all would jump from a high height on serious abuse of free inbound.

Thanks

John

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JohnCK (Offline) Junior Member Newbie Posts: 8 Join Date: 13 May 2009 Country:	31-07-2009, 13:49 Hi, The reason that eKit do not have an annual renewal fee is that they more than recover these charges by having call set up fees on both inbound and outbound. SIM4Travel also charge a daily connection fee of 39p for this purpose. Please correct me if i am wrong but most honest users would not be in favour of this and would rather pay a very small annual fee to keep their SIM active. People bang on about a fair usage policy. Do you not think that major MNOs like Vodafone and Orange have these in place? Subsidising free calls in certain countries costs money down all chains and i would suggest that the customers who never make outbound calls and only receive free abuse the system and are not wanted by any Global SIM Distributors, eKit included. Please rest assured that all Distributors monitor their users and all would jump from a high height on serious abuse of free inbound. Thanks John