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Originally Posted by snidely
My guess is the number they assign is in the pool from their VOIP service - which is why they also have UK and French numbers available like other VOIP services. The "VOIP number" is then automatically forwarded to the SIM.
Question - what country/system is the SIM based? It must have its own discrete number.
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Hey, they can forward VOICE calls from landlines wherever they want but how about SMSes? I really doubt if you can send and SMS to a landline number and then it will be forwarded to a mobile network. I don't say it's technically impossible as there are many landline phones (even analog ones, not ISDN or something) nowadays with SMS capabilities so it shouldn't be a problem to forward an SMS to a mobile network instead of terminating it on the "landline". But what will happen on the "sending side" i.e. will any mobile operator transfer such an SMS to a landline (in any of the three countries) without losing it? My conclusion - IMHO this SIM number can't be so discrete if sending SMSes to Yackie is to be functioning in practice not theory only?
BTW, AFAIR Buytel used some kind of forwarding from landlines but it had also an "official" +423 663 number attached to the SIM. What was the way to send an SMS to Buytel SIMs - I guess not a landline
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And, in the end some thought OT about SMS and intermational SIMs.
So far, there are two SIMs for which SMS don't (or almost don't) work, namely Hop and 09. What do they have in common? IMHO their "official" numbers are not from the networks whose roaming agreements they use:
Hop: Monaco Telecom/Areeba Ghana
09: Viking Wireless Iceland(?)/Swisscom(?)
and this may cause SMS problems.
If Yackie is going to follow that way, I "smell" some SMS problems even if they weren't use landline numbers as "official"numbers
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