Telna Again?

[biophysics]

thank you Dr. Newcomb. it appears to be working. awesome job from telna as well.

[biophysics]

hello,

2 issues, wondering what you guys think:

1) i texted a sprint phone using my telna phone, and now that sprint phone keeps recieving my text every 2 hours for the last day.

2) after working well for the first five days i had telna, now the network keeps searching and not finding carrier. This just started on 03/01/12.

[Bossman]

My son uses this sim. I could not reach him yesterday. As he always turns it own when he gets on the school bus. When he finally called me from the home phone, he said the phone would not connect. I just checked it now after I saw your post. Incoming calls and texts are not coming through. Outgoing calls work. But txts just sit in the outbox.

Bottom line - they are having issues.

Originally Posted by biophysics

hello,

2 issues, wondering what you guys think:

1) i texted a sprint phone using my telna phone, and now that sprint phone keeps recieving my text every 2 hours for the last day.

2) after working well for the first five days i had telna, now the network keeps searching and not finding carrier. This just started on 03/01/12.

[biophysics]

thanks bossman, I can second everything you said. I was able to make an outgoing but no incoming calls, and no texts at all.

looks like I'll have to get a second sim card. Maybe just use telna as a backup??? any alternatives for similar price?? I was looking at spotmobile.

[Bossman]

I am not familiar with spotmobile. If your primary use is for the USA, have you considered others such as TMobile, etc? My primary use of telna is for international travel. So that I can forward my AT&T number to it, and be reachable at good rates. Telna has served me well in that regards. I have use it in Jamaica, UK, Nigeria, etc. without issues. So, whatever the issues are they are having, it's probably just temporary. At least I hope so...as I plan on using it for incoming calls from the US when I travel to Nigeria at the end of the month.

Originally Posted by biophysics

thanks bossman, I can second everything you said. I was able to make an outgoing but no incoming calls, and no texts at all.

looks like I'll have to get a second sim card. Maybe just use telna as a backup??? any alternatives for similar price?? I was looking at spotmobile.

[telnamobile]

Hi Guys

there was indeed a small technical issue that was resolved around 9AM PST. Everything should be fine now.
If not please contact our customer service team with some examples and they'll have someone look at the issue.
@biophysics: Please let the customer service team what message repeated itself so they investigate and make sure this issue does not keep occurring and hopefully does not happen again in the future.

Thanks!

[Stu]

My primary purpose on these SIMs is use abroad, but I give weight to a SIM that works easily at home as well. (Meaning the US, not the UAE anymore -- I still am a frequent visitor, but have moved back to the States a few years back).

My best friend and his son visit us a couple of times a year from Oz. When they come, I loan them US SIMs and Telna would be great. When I'm traveling, I'll sometimes take a second phone with me if I think it will come in handy and I'll often head off to the airport with the forwarding on and the roaming SIM engaged if the rate of using it at the airport isn't very much.

My wife and I live on the Canadian border. She is working twenty weeks over the next year in Canada. This year I'm just giving ATT the $200 bucks and extending my family plan into Canada. That way she doesn't have to think about it and can call Canada without worrying about calling cards. When that gig is over, I'll probably use Telna for Canada. When I leave my house, I'll just use Telna for the twenty minute trip to the border and not worry about pulling over and SIM swapping near the border.

At 8 cents a minute, it is a great second phone. It is also a good deal for a senior citizen. I'm carrying my inlaws on my family plan. They go through half an hour a month. I had them on prepaid, but my father-in-law couldn't stay on the prepaid cycle. TMobile Gold with manual recharges might make sense, but this would be no hassle.

I'm also recommending the phone to a close friend who lives in Dubai but is from Florida. She is TMobile Gold, but I thought that the roaming part of the phone was a good deal.

Now as a TMobile MVNO, if they could figure out how to make Hotspot (UMA) work in a TMobile handset, that would be great. As many people know, there are several countries where UMA works and SIP doesn't.

[DRNewcomb]

My only real issue with TelnaMobile is that, from time to time, even with a good T-Mobile signal it just gets stuck and won't register ("No Access"). Turning the phone off and on, manually selecting T-Mobile, changing phones, etc. does not fix it. Then it suddenly starts working again. I don't know if this is a problem with the multi-IMSI SIM or with Telna's switch but it tends to be a PITA.

[biophysics]

Hi,

looking for help in setting up voicemail. Using iphone 2g.

activated voicemail on telna website, turned phone off and on again. still nothing. I tried dialing my own number, but the call hangs up. any help is appreciated. thanks

[Bossman]

Voicemail is not functional on their sim card. Somewhere in this thread, the telna representative that posts here mentioned they are working on it.

Originally Posted by biophysics

Hi,

looking for help in setting up voicemail. Using iphone 2g.

activated voicemail on telna website, turned phone off and on again. still nothing. I tried dialing my own number, but the call hangs up. any help is appreciated. thanks