[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by Stu

I appreciate the difference between a caller pays mobile number and a "premium rate" number in the British sense of the word. It is not an 0900 number. To the extent that I chose that word, I let myself open for the criticism.

OK, I realise what you meant. Simply I don't see any "premium" in the numbers under consideration . If you called to a "regular" Estonian mobile number, you would pay the same (probably high) rate but you wouldn't say it's "premium"

Originally Posted by Stu

My sole point is and always was that despite the EU, each country is still a seperate entity. Calling a caller pays mobile in a neighboring country is not the same as telling a New Yorker to call an Ohio mobile. If I were to ask a Brit would you rather have my French number or my US one, they both reach me equally as well, the Brit would say which one is cheaper to call.

I don't want to speak for Brits, and not even for Poles , but... If you asked me the same question and I knew that roaming is "involved" I would ask you what number is cheaper for you to answer the call.

Originally Posted by Stu

I choose to subsidize the cost of my incoming calls. That is a personal choice. I do so because I have too many SIMs and no one could possibly keep track of which number to reach me on unless I used call diversion.

Yes, I understand your point. But I also think that RangeRoamer offers a good product leaving the choice of CPP calling via +372 or CSP with forwarding via 800

Originally Posted by Stu

The other problem is that most of my friends do not research the price of calling various destinations. My sister-in-law called my wife the other day. My wife is in Dubai on a UAE mobile. My sister-in-law was on her Verizon mobile phone in the US. My sister-in-law did not use a calling card and she did not even pay for an international calling plan for her Verizon phone. They talked for about an hour. My wife casually asked me what the call would cost her sister. When I guessed the price of the call at around US$100, my wife fell out of the chair.

If I was getting a call from one or two friends and I said, you can call this number cheaply by dialing 1010 this from your home phone, or buying a prepaid calling card on the "Blah Blah Blah Talk Calling Card Network," I'd pass the buck to them, but the ill-informed calling foreign CP networks can get burned badly.

I'm really astonished. In "common opinion" the Americans are considered to be responsible for what they do, unlike "socialist" and "leftist" Europeans who need help from their goverments with any single problem (and blame them for the problems) . More seriously, international phone calls are paid services like many others. Of course, the "slight" difference that the call prices are not so "visible" like e.g. in a car wash or cinema. IMHO, if you are abroad, people who call you, should generally accept the fact that they may pay foreign rates and it's their responsibility, not yours, to call you as cheap as possible.

Originally Posted by Stu

I wouldn't have a wallet full of SIMs if there was one answer.

As long as you have roaming coverage, there's one answer but you don't want to apply it in the real life