Best practice international GSM setup

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Originally Posted by gkeeper

I use Piranha, Tru and Toggle (Toggle only in Toggle countries) and have compared prices with Onesimcard and Airbaliticard and the maths works out, that overall the Onesimcard and Airbaliticard are more expensive, not only for outgoing calls but especially for the caller.

I am going on a trip to Europe and will travel to Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, France, and Spain.

I too went with Piranha Mobile, TruPhone, and Toggle Mobile.

TruPhone states it will cost me $0.09 per minute to receive calls in all of my listed countries. And $0.32 per minute to make calls to other phones within the same country. I think it is $0.11 to send SMS messages. They provide a US phone number.

Piranha rates vary from country to country. Receiving calls cost $0.06 to $0.08 per minute. Making calls to other phones within the same country cost $0.17 to $0.23 per minute. Sending SMS always seems to be $0.15. They provide a US and UK (not Isle of Man) phone number.

Toggle Mobile in the "local number" countries of Denmark, Germany, France, and Spain. 3 pence (UK) per minute to land lines, 9 pence (UK) per minute to mobile, 9 pence (UK) per SMS. Calls/SMS are to phones within the same country. Free incoming calls in these countries. They provide a UK phone number and then a phone number in each one of the countries. I believe that the UK number is NOT an Isle of Man number.