Avoid United Mobile!

[kupe]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

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

Well, another deal I knew couldn't last... My home long distance was with Bellsouth, and with the plan I was using, I was paying 8 cents per minute to call my UM Liechtenstein mobile from home. Bellsouth merged this past year with ATT and to my delight, the good deal continued!

Until this month that is. ;( Just got the first ever bill with a mobile termination fee- total per minute is now 38 cents. Not terrible, but slowly and surely the Liechtenstein workarounds are going away.

FWIW, I still use CBW with UM Liechtenstein because of the 6 second billing and no setup charge. I can make a call home to tell them to call me with only 18 seconds or so of billing.

Kupe