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Originally Posted by flipper9
You run the risk of losing your money in your account, like with all International GSM providers.
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This is not limited to
'international GSM providers'. I lost money to an USA MVNO. And many would claim AT&T took their money when they invalidated their $10 credit start up cards.
However, what is happening this Summer is a generational change in product. Almost all the surviving companies are working on dual IMSI US/country of choice [usually IOM or UK] SIM cards. Since some companies have not even reached the market yet, we have not fully seen what this will mean. Perhaps it will be a bridge to far for some of the comanies or a bridge they do not survive to cross. We have not really seen too many other than preliminary reports about these products yet either. ekit has at least 7 different cards/plans and some complain about not understanding all the choices. Let us hope these companies stay viable, because they will be the only competition with the national carriers that allow international roaming. I am seeing no move by US MVNOs to work outside of North America and the big North American carriers when they allow international prepaid use charge dearly. Interesting times indeed!