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Thanks for the follow-up.
Good points. Why don't you post your questions and comments over on teltarif?
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I can't - simply I don't know German :P.
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THEIR comments, not mine.
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I know it - these were just my quick impressions on the subject
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They want a perfect solution and this does not yet exist.
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I think it may never exist. If you have 5 cents/min on-net calls in your home country, you can't have free incoming calls abroad with the same SIM unless foreign terminations rates drop below 4 cents - just a quick and dirty example

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Another poster there mentioned that UM is in talks with E+ to launch an option with a German home #. Planned for later this year. Also SECONDED my note about the existence and usefulness of such cards.
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Nice idea, but I suppose that those UM/E+ numbers will be either billed as mobile off-net numbers for any German operator or incoming calls won't be free.
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Yackie allows US, UK and French home #s. GT-SIM allows ONE home country.
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But GT-sim doesn't offer the number from that country - it's still IoM mobile....
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Bottom line IMHO.... many people, even Europeans, don't know about these options.
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Yes, and even if they know, they often react "Calling Liechtenstein? It's so expensive" :P
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The original Teltarif editorial suggests that roaming prices are going to RISE instead of falling because of the proposed EU commission actions.
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I wouldn't exclude that but I don;t want to worry in advance.
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To beat the problem you mention with INTERNATIONAL RATES I have always recommended calling cards. Some have local access #s as well as toll free. These work well with BEST FRIEND or XTRA ONE tarif classes.
Lazy..... Yes, not only Germans, but others, including USA consumers.
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Calling cards or callbacking services are not for lazy people, I think