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MATHA531 · 30-10-2009, 01:53

Roadrunner...

It depends on a lot of factors and depends on your use. To characterize e-kit as a mistake might not be true in all cases but nobody said for all people it is the best.

For me, my travelling is in Western, Central and parts of Eastern Europe. I go to Scandanavia, it's perfect for me...I don't call many European mobiles if any...I might make a call or two to a local restaurant. If I'm going to be in a burgh for a while, I might go for a local sim.

My chief use of the card is to receive calls as economically as possible. I can always ask somebody who I call to call me back. I use my regular t mobile USA phone for text messaging...on my plan it's free to receive text messages I believe all over the world...it costs me only 35¢ to send a text message...also I have local British sims and their rates outside of Britain are not any better than e-kit....there are a few other Isle of Man international cards and at least on this forum we have discovered they all have fair usage policies (that means if you only use the cards to receive calls and make too few outgoing calls, they cut you off), annual fees and other goodies in the fine print.

Now, your needs may be different than mine. For exame, I still have an Air Baltic card which uses Estonian originating numbers...its rate in Russia is very reasonable but it has high rates to and from Estonia whereas e-kit treats Estonia as zone 1...free incoming via the +44 and 19¢ incoming via +1...you figure out why....

Unfortunately the international sim card business has been very unstable recently. Until the last year, we had O9 in Iceland, United Mobile in both Liechtenstein and the isle of Jersey and they had better rates than e-kit.

But agin for everybody, it's the way they use the phone that is the determining factor and believe me I don't espouse getting 5 or 6 different sim cards for international travel but as long as I am reachable, if I call home I can always ask the person I call to call me right back and they have no problems calling me on the +1 number.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	30-10-2009, 01:53 Roadrunner... It depends on a lot of factors and depends on your use. To characterize e-kit as a mistake might not be true in all cases but nobody said for all people it is the best. For me, my travelling is in Western, Central and parts of Eastern Europe. I go to Scandanavia, it's perfect for me...I don't call many European mobiles if any...I might make a call or two to a local restaurant. If I'm going to be in a burgh for a while, I might go for a local sim. My chief use of the card is to receive calls as economically as possible. I can always ask somebody who I call to call me back. I use my regular t mobile USA phone for text messaging...on my plan it's free to receive text messages I believe all over the world...it costs me only 35¢ to send a text message...also I have local British sims and their rates outside of Britain are not any better than e-kit....there are a few other Isle of Man international cards and at least on this forum we have discovered they all have fair usage policies (that means if you only use the cards to receive calls and make too few outgoing calls, they cut you off), annual fees and other goodies in the fine print. Now, your needs may be different than mine. For exame, I still have an Air Baltic card which uses Estonian originating numbers...its rate in Russia is very reasonable but it has high rates to and from Estonia whereas e-kit treats Estonia as zone 1...free incoming via the +44 and 19¢ incoming via +1...you figure out why.... Unfortunately the international sim card business has been very unstable recently. Until the last year, we had O9 in Iceland, United Mobile in both Liechtenstein and the isle of Jersey and they had better rates than e-kit. But agin for everybody, it's the way they use the phone that is the determining factor and believe me I don't espouse getting 5 or 6 different sim cards for international travel but as long as I am reachable, if I call home I can always ask the person I call to call me right back and they have no problems calling me on the +1 number.