
18-11-2005, 20:22
Just to follow up on a few things, now I've been travelling with gt-sim.
There is (correctly) no longer an sms with a rate in $US after each call, the billing is only online.
GPRS works OK, on tuesday I tried it in the Isle of Man, and Ireland (works on O2 and Vodaphone but not Meteor). Also works in the USA (AT&T part of Cingular, T-Mobile, but didn't seem to work on Cingular).
Phone calls and SMS work on all the networks I've tried so far, quick callbacks. The 60c supplement on US calls is charged (i.e. rate shown on bill as 0.86c/min instead of 0.26c/min). That is the biggest downside of gt-sim for me (apart from the lack of Mexico coverage), but when I was talking to Peter a while back it was mentioned they were working on a way to reduce that.
SMS and GPRS are not visible on the online billing yet, but I'm assuming I'll be charged for them eventually.
And they do listen to feedback - "unkown caller" on the English version of the online billing has had its spelling corrected.
Sims: Telcel MX, T-Mobile US, Virgin Mobile UK, Orange UK, Knowroaming
Voip: Localphone UK, Anveo US, Google Voice
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