Britishsims

MATHA531 · 06-02-2008, 02:14

Incidentally, just one other quick thing...callbackworld and a similar service enlinea used to be very very good from mobile phones and many of the international sim cards to call the USA...for a couple of years, it worked indeed very well with the original United Mobile with calls coming in at around 12¢/minute to call anywhere UM had free incoming to the USA (enlinea might have been a couple of cents cheaper) but then, and being a conspiracy theory person myself, to try to kill thise golden goose, cbw (and enlinea) were forced to raise their rates using the+423 service to some unfathomably high rate....this went along with the steep rises in termination fees on other carriers to Liechtenstein mobiles (as well as Estonian mobiles, Icelandic mobiles...I wonder what they have in common???) although cbw and enlinea rates using the Estonian and Icelandic mobiles, particularly Iceland, are still okay. This is what, I am sure, pushed UM to start pushing its +44 service using Jersey numbers instead of the +423 numbers...it was and still is free to receive calls in many many places on the +423 number but the people calling pay a mint to make the call if indeed the call goes through at all.

Anyway, the interesting thing now on both cbw and enlinea is that rates on many local sims using their service is still relatively cheap say on French, Italian, German sim cards but have also shot through the rook on UK mobile numbers...in other words using a UK mobile to make a call via cbw or enlinea is not cheap as you indicated...again I wonder why (draw your own conclusions...)

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	06-02-2008, 02:14 Incidentally, just one other quick thing...callbackworld and a similar service enlinea used to be very very good from mobile phones and many of the international sim cards to call the USA...for a couple of years, it worked indeed very well with the original United Mobile with calls coming in at around 12¢/minute to call anywhere UM had free incoming to the USA (enlinea might have been a couple of cents cheaper) but then, and being a conspiracy theory person myself, to try to kill thise golden goose, cbw (and enlinea) were forced to raise their rates using the+423 service to some unfathomably high rate....this went along with the steep rises in termination fees on other carriers to Liechtenstein mobiles (as well as Estonian mobiles, Icelandic mobiles...I wonder what they have in common???) although cbw and enlinea rates using the Estonian and Icelandic mobiles, particularly Iceland, are still okay. This is what, I am sure, pushed UM to start pushing its +44 service using Jersey numbers instead of the +423 numbers...it was and still is free to receive calls in many many places on the +423 number but the people calling pay a mint to make the call if indeed the call goes through at all. Anyway, the interesting thing now on both cbw and enlinea is that rates on many local sims using their service is still relatively cheap say on French, Italian, German sim cards but have also shot through the rook on UK mobile numbers...in other words using a UK mobile to make a call via cbw or enlinea is not cheap as you indicated...again I wonder why (draw your own conclusions...)