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[willemijns]

LYCAMOBILE groupe lycatel has opened now a MVNO in USA... actually they offer free inbound roaming fees but in a couple of weeks you will have a
USA DID number....

[inquisitor]

Originally Posted by ronwi

I am wondering if whilst in Spain I will be able to still receive calls on the UK number, even with the Spanish IMSI on the SIM (the UK number is cheaper to call.)

Yes, you will be able to receive calls on the British number at no extra charge, thus for free.

I also note that while a Spanish Lyca SIM has a per call connection fee, the Toggle SIM appears to have no such fee.

Lyca charges call setup fees in most countries, while toggle doesn't yet.

[ronwi]

Interestingly, the rates on the Dutch Toggle card are mostly higher - even with the conversion. Looks like calls in the Netherlands have a 9 cent setup fee, and when in the other Toggle countries calls are 12 cents per minute (despite the wording of the site that says you pay only the Dutch rate in the Toggle countries.)

Using Toggle Abroad - Toggle

[inquisitor]

I've just tried to set a call forwarding from several German postpaid SIM cards (Telekom, congstar, Vodafone) to my German toggle number. Unfortunately all calls to those forwarded numbers fail once the forwarding has been set (there's no error message, the call just ends).
I wonder if this is a flaw or if toggle actually blocks inbound forwarded calls to avoid excessive use of free inbound roaming calls.

[ChrisNeedsToKnow]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

I've just tried to set a call forwarding from several German postpaid SIM cards (Telekom, congstar, Vodafone) to my German toggle number. Unfortunately all calls to those forwarded numbers fail once the forwarding has been set (there's no error message, the call just ends).
I wonder if this is a flaw or if toggle actually blocks inbound forwarded calls to avoid excessive use of free inbound roaming calls.

Hi inquisitor,

I set a divert from callmobile.de to my German Toggle#, and I receive the calls in Switzerland without problems. The call is even shown as "diverted".

Maybe diverts just don't work inside any given country, as inside Switzerland exactly what you describe happens to me. (Although I wouldn´t get the sense of this?!)

As per last post, I´ll report this Friday on whether I can receive Swiss diverts in Germany.

Rgds, Christian

[inquisitor]

Just received the following email according to which toggle actually blocks forwarded inbound calls during roaming:

Further to your email, with regret we would like to inform you that when you are in roaming your inbound calls which are originating from other service provider’s numbers will not be forwarded to your Toggle mobile number.

They could at least terminate those blocked calls into the voicemail system or play some message instead of just hanging up.

But of course this blockage is only possible as long as forwarded calls are signalized as such on SS7 level (Forward Indicator Bit (FIB) set). If you forward calls using your own VoIP equipment, toggle won't be able to detect forwarded calls.

[bourbonkiller]

Hi inquisitor,

I've just experienced the same with my swiss incoming number on togglemobile uk. As soon as I set call forward from any of my swiss mobile phones to the swiss togglemobile number, a busy tone occure.

Using callforwarding from my freecall.com voip account to the original UK togglemobile number just works fine (at the moment)

BK

[andy]

I hadn't noticed those posts earlier

I've just tested diversion to the UK Toggle number, which works fine with 5 different UK providers, with the number of the calling phone shown each time

Perhaps I'm not counted as roaming, and I should also test this abroad

[tux]

Is it better buying a Toggle sim from the UK or NL website?

How much a local number costs?

[inquisitor]

The Dutch one was a wee cheaper until recently because they charged the same nominal rates but in Euros instead of Pounds, however they have recently introduced a call setup fee of € 0.09 per call for the Dutch one, which currently makes it more expensive than its British derivate. But I guess it won't take long until they introduce the setup fee for the British SIM, too.