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snidely · 20-04-2010, 00:17

Not being a licensed carrier, I don't think he is bound by EU regs. He seems to be selling a value added service. If you don't like their prices, get a card directly from the underlying Netherlands carrier if you want (and can).
That said, for incoming, it will cost a U.S. user about US35 cents + about US23 cents to forward his incoming to a NL number for a total of under 60 cents. Not cheap - but less than the $1/min. charged by US carriers to roam in most of Europe.
The main feature of this card is that it is a regular NL number. The problem with many other cards in the past is that you had to dial a very expensive Estonian or other premium number. These numbers were so expensive to call, there was no savings on incoming calls although some savings on outgoing.
It will be interesting to see their new rate schedule when it is posted.

A side note: It sure will help those of us in the U.S. and Canada when Google Voice allows call forwarding to intl. numbers. Their intl. calling rates are quite low. In the U.S. you can program many smart phones to automatically route intl. calls via Google and pay one tenth of what you would pay your carrier to handle the call.

...mike

P.S. The main thing that bothers me about Paytoo is they do not have a physical office! I may be old fashioned, but question a business that has no real office and no real (landline) phone.

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	20-04-2010, 00:17 Not being a licensed carrier, I don't think he is bound by EU regs. He seems to be selling a value added service. If you don't like their prices, get a card directly from the underlying Netherlands carrier if you want (and can). That said, for incoming, it will cost a U.S. user about US35 cents + about US23 cents to forward his incoming to a NL number for a total of under 60 cents. Not cheap - but less than the $1/min. charged by US carriers to roam in most of Europe. The main feature of this card is that it is a regular NL number. The problem with many other cards in the past is that you had to dial a very expensive Estonian or other premium number. These numbers were so expensive to call, there was no savings on incoming calls although some savings on outgoing. It will be interesting to see their new rate schedule when it is posted. A side note: It sure will help those of us in the U.S. and Canada when Google Voice allows call forwarding to intl. numbers. Their intl. calling rates are quite low. In the U.S. you can program many smart phones to automatically route intl. calls via Google and pay one tenth of what you would pay your carrier to handle the call. ...mike P.S. The main thing that bothers me about Paytoo is they do not have a physical office! I may be old fashioned, but question a business that has no real office and no real (landline) phone. Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year. Last edited by snidely; 20-04-2010 at 00:39..