Avoid United Mobile!

MATHA531 · 02-09-2007, 16:01

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Originally Posted by Przemolog

I'm sorry to say that but IMHO you're boring with your complaints about international SIMs. OK, it's your choice that you want to change CPP solutions into RPP ones. But, if you talk about CBW pricing to "home countries" of international SIMs, the worst case is Liechtestein: 56 cents/min (either forwarding from USA or a callback call to USA). Now, compare that with the cheapest roaming tariffs which you may be offered from any US mobile operator. AFAIK AT&T is 99 cents both incoming and outgoing (anything cheaper?). So, the savings seem to be at least 43 cents/min and you're still complaining

I don't know if boring is the right word...spoiled is perhaps a better word...look

Last summer, I used UM for a trip through Europe...my ld company was only charging a 1¢ termination fee to have calls forwarded from my landline to my UM mobile for a total of 11¢/minute...I could call using cbw back to the USA for 14¢/minute...what could be better?

Then as you know things changed drastically....termination fees to Liechtenstein mobiles shot through the wall..suddenly cbw was charging 59¢/minute for calls that I was used to making for 14¢/minute...termination fees rose to something like 31¢/minute on my ld carrier so the same forwarded call that last year cost me 11¢/minute was now 41¢/minute...ouch so of course I started looking for alternatives. I considered the Estonian mobiles but found termination fees were even higher and cbw didn't work...what should I say...should I be happy paying two or three times as much as I was used to.

Now maybe I am spoiled but as with everybody else, I will always try to find what I consider reasonably priced ways of dealing with my communication problems and although clearly Estonian mobiles are a better deal than international roaming on either AT&T or T Mobile US, they are not a better deal than what I had on UM in the past.

So for me, travelsim is not a great deal; perhaps if I were new to this whole thing I might feel differently.

In all due respect to you whose opinion might differ.