Callkey Latest/Is there hope? [merged threads]

[andy]

They aren't Jersey, or I'd have said so

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by andy

They aren't Jersey, or I'd have said so

Ooops, I misunderstood your list because I was quite sleepy when typing .

Anyway, I guess you mean by "forwarded" the fact that the "real" SIM number is "hidden" but the SIM can be reached by calling a +44 number (named "DID" or whatever) provided by the seller of the SIM, right? Then, I think you should also add to the list of UK-numbered international SIMs Maxroam, Yackie and probably CelTrek .

[bbob]

Andy, yes there are several other ones but a better question would be how reliable are these other ones or what is the financial backup of these companies.

There are some companies that just rebrand another sim so how strong are they and when they rebrand someone elses service we should relly be looking at the reliability of the source.

Take callblue, I read here allready some complaint from the past on how they treat customers and this applies to many other. I still have a globalsimcard.co.uk and they have some nice info on their website but so far no replacement for a non working sim. so how serious can you take these companies ?

Sure it would also depend on if you use the card 2 or 3 times a year than reliability might not be as important compared to someone using it daily. I use mine dialy and people have my mobile +44 number. I just don't want a situation where I have to give everyone a new number every year of half year.

So reliability is a keyword but also who is behind a company to backup the company financially. When I look at that there are not many companies I would consider to buy a card from.

[easyroam-]

Well this is a lite hearted post but according to callkey, Wednesday 17/10/07 is the big day.

The most interesting thing is that every one is going to be looking at there phone to see when it goes live.

If your Manx sim number (+447624 or +447924 has gone live, please put the time your sim could make or receive calls on this post.

Please give details like:

Is you number: 07624 or 07924
What brand: geo, worldsim, ect.

[bbob]

Nice info but i have written this before a better question would be how long will they be able to keep it going.

As we have all understood now there were some financial problems which are maybe resolved now. But what will happen in 6 month's time, offline again. What has changed that they can guarentee now that it will be working.

I think many people are a bit upset as they use there number on a regular basis to call and receive calls and you need a reliable provider for this.

We all have seen what happend to yackie and unhappy customers so if anyone has some more info on why callkey can now make it work again it would be interesting to know.

[easyroam-]

lets see if it works first and then worry for how long for

callkey > < customer

[bbob]

Originally Posted by easyroam-

lets see if it works first and then worry for how long for

callkey > < customer

I still have the sim but allready gave my customers my new +44 um+ number.

I am not really interested to see how long it works this time. As most people I want a reliable solution and not worry how long the number will be online this time.

Also the last month I noticed some quality problems with the callkey service. I am using callback myself and my dtmf tones would not come through. This is an indication that they are using heavy compression on their line. More compression = more calles through these lines.
This only happended the last 2 month, before that no problem. Using Um+ I can use callback without any problem.

[PhotoJim]

All this chaos begs for someone in the know to do a fair, unbiased review of the international SIMs. I only have one (United Mobile +) so I would be a poor choice, but I think it would be very interesting to see a general comparison of all of them (in a new thread or as a featured article).

[hrgajek]

Hello,

there are two facts at the moment at 21.51 C-E-T Time.

Fact one:

Some Callkey Distributors told us (including the Germany based Globalsim.de) that the original SIM-Cards and Phone-Numbers will return on Wednesday, 17th of October A.D. MMVII (i.e. 2007) This is today, mostly in the world, I think.

Fact two:

My and many other SIM-Cards from the +44 7624 1xxxxx number-Range do not work at this time. Just tested again, calling the number from my landline,
I get an announcement: "Sorry, the number you have called is not available".

Its a pity, that nobody at Callkey.com or Manx-Telecom has the "power" or "courage" to put any information on their homepage to give us a current status, whats going on there.

Every day, our Callkey-SIM-Cards/Numbers are not working is reducing the chance to recover the company and to earn money as the little rest of customers is still gone away to Iceland (09.is or Yackie) or Isle of Jersey (UM+) or Liechtenstein (UM423), Estonia (AirBaltic) or any other SIM in the big GSM-world.

[Stu]

I just got an e-mail that my Manx Sim from globalsimcard.co.uk can be reactivated. Stay tuned.

Stu