Eu Sim Recommendation Request

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by Effendi

With CallBlue you don't have free incoming calls in CZ ($ 0.30/min), so it could be a good option for outgoing calls and SMS (cheaper), but not much for receiving them from the US. They are free in Germany and Poland, not in Austria and Slovakia ($ 0.30/min).
Probably Travelsim could be a good idea, it's cheaper to buy and you have free incoming calls in CZ and the countries around (except Hungary, Slovania and Italy). With United Mobile you have more free incoming countries, but you pay more for short calls.

Travelsim doesn't have free incoming in Poland either, if we consider Czech neighbours...

To summarise, if you consider free incoming calls then the following SIMs offer you that feature in all the countries you want to visit:
UM (former Riiing) - country code 423 Liechtenstein
09 - country code 354 Iceland

They have no special requirements for handsets. However, with some handsets you must use so-called "menu based calling". This means that you have enter a special menu (provided with your SIM) and then type (or select from the phone book, but only from the one stored on the SIM, not in the phone memmory!) the number you are going to call to.
The calls are charged for each started minute. Setup fee 0.25? applies for any outgoing call (in other words, each first minute is 25 eurocents more expensive than next ones).
SMS seems not to work in 09 yet.

Isle of Man SIMs (UK country code 44) with handset compatibility issues:
Talaphone http://49centscall.com/ (bad reputation on this forum ).
0044 http://www.0044.co.uk/
Geodesa http://www.globalsimcard.co.uk/
The latter offer better call billing (30 seconds, than each 6 seconds), not sure about 0044. None of them applies first minute surcharge.

IoM based gt-sim charges 38 eurocents/min on incoming calls in all countries (except one selected) but it offers also GPRS-based data transmission.