Review of Truphone

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Originally Posted by davidtheprof

no monthly fee, as far I can see from the Truphone forum, but there is possibly a $3/month fee for inactive accounts (which a free balance-check call would avoid). They claim to be checking this, as their policies are unclear.

Especially since the dropping of the 'membership' concept, I suspect the rank and file CS representitives do not know with certainty what it takes to keep the SIM 'alive' without any inactivity fee. It was not all that clear before either. I fear that the

(which a free balance-check call would avoid)

is part of the great uncertainty. Rather than finding out if that is true or not I plan to make short phone calls on the first of the month [9cents instead of 12cents for SMSes] to do a monthly event. Of course some pesky months have 31 days and the last number I saw for activity was '30'. In earlier threads here the numbers 'floating' around were 90 and 120.

If anyone ever does get the inactivity fee could you please tell us the circumstances? I don't recall seeing here or in anyother forum anyone claiming to have been charged it. Perhaps Tru system is not yet programmed to charge it yet? Or correctly?

So far, Tru has proved to be a relatively inexpensive long life SIM for Americans. With the additional benefits of low cost use in UK and Oz; and moderate rates for Europe and the rest of the world when comparied to US carriers. The moderately 'high' initial price of $30 was offset for many of us here by getting a phone with the SIM for less on eBay a while back.

The doubt/frustation of not knowing the 'real' cost is offset by the fact that we have not gotten to that river yet.