Yackiemobile - Anybody Heard Of Them?

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Cizake -
I think i speak for all of us here - we appreciate you coming on and fielding all the pointed questions.

I, for one, am willing to give this a try. Just came back from Costa Rica where i could have made use of your service. Next intl. trip isn't for a month.

My only question now would be the subjective one - how is the voice quality? It appears that when someone dials the U.S. number (or French or UK number) the call is routed via VOIP to the Israeli SIM which is then processed like a normal cel call. My only concern would be if there is a big loss in voice quality over the VOIP leg.

As an aside - altho you are based in Florida, all the U.S. numbers you have are based in Ohio :wacko: - a 567 area code.

The big advantage to me, anyway, is the fact i can simply forward calls to my Yackie U.S. number, thus eliminating my need to use something like Kall8 to forward to my intl. cel phone. That much more than compensates for paying the 24?/min for incoming calls you charge in most countries and even the 34 or 39? you charge in the high priced countries like India (34) or Nicarugua and Belize (39).
If you have a truly functional VM system - for me this service would be perfect. Much of my travel is to 3rd world countries. Even in lst world countries, as mentioned above, the fact callers dial a "local" number more than makes up for the "advantage" that some competitors claim to have by offering "free" incoming in dozens of countries. Calls to most all mobiles in the world are more than 24? via any LD carrier in the U.S.

If/when i do go ahead and use this service, I will forward home and office lines to my U.S. Cel which I will then forward to the Yackie Ohio number. If i forward directly to Ohio from landlines it would cost me 4.5?/min. Via cel, it will simply come out of my large bucket of min. which aren't being used anyway while on the road.

...mike