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ticex · 11-02-2006, 02:25

Yes, these are indeed the most important tests! I'll be back out of the UK next week so I'll be able to test it in France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. However, on the face of it as the UK mainland is a "roaming" country and it works fine on all the networks things look like they could be ok.

The prices within the UK seem to actually be slightly lower than the ones quoted on 0044's website. They are actually calculated in USD but 0044 quote them in GBP and it seems the exchange rate used by 0044 is slightly pessimistic. For example I made a 1 minute test call to a UK landline number which was charged at USD 0.15 (~GBP 0.859) which is ever so slightly lower than the rate of GBP 0.09 quoted on 0044's website. I know that buying credit on the credit card will give a poorer exchange rate but this initial test seems to show that the 0044 rates are pretty much correct for that section. The exact charging system seems to charge the call in 2 chunks..one relating to the country roaming in and the other for the termination. Here is a copy of what the user area of the website said about the call:

From United Kingdom [GBR] 447624xxxxxx 0:01:00 US$ 0.1100
To +44131xxxxxxx +44131xxxxxxx 0:01:00 US$ 0.0352
Cost: US$ 0.15

I'll make some more calls over the coming days and post the actual charged rates from the website control panel thing at callkey. However, as mentioned some more thorough tests are needed but for me the incoming possibilities are certainly interesting.

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ticex (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 67 Join Date: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Edinburgh & Brussels Country:	11-02-2006, 02:25 Yes, these are indeed the most important tests! I'll be back out of the UK next week so I'll be able to test it in France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. However, on the face of it as the UK mainland is a "roaming" country and it works fine on all the networks things look like they could be ok. The prices within the UK seem to actually be slightly lower than the ones quoted on 0044's website. They are actually calculated in USD but 0044 quote them in GBP and it seems the exchange rate used by 0044 is slightly pessimistic. For example I made a 1 minute test call to a UK landline number which was charged at USD 0.15 (~GBP 0.859) which is ever so slightly lower than the rate of GBP 0.09 quoted on 0044's website. I know that buying credit on the credit card will give a poorer exchange rate but this initial test seems to show that the 0044 rates are pretty much correct for that section. The exact charging system seems to charge the call in 2 chunks..one relating to the country roaming in and the other for the termination. Here is a copy of what the user area of the website said about the call: From United Kingdom [GBR] 447624xxxxxx 0:01:00 US$ 0.1100 To +44131xxxxxxx +44131xxxxxxx 0:01:00 US$ 0.0352 Cost: US$ 0.15 I'll make some more calls over the coming days and post the actual charged rates from the website control panel thing at callkey. However, as mentioned some more thorough tests are needed but for me the incoming possibilities are certainly interesting.