CelTrek - a new int'l SIM

AndreA · 30-01-2007, 14:12

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Originally Posted by Przemolog

CelTrek service is provided by Global Roaming Inc. who CEO is Florian Seroussi AKA Cizake (ex Yackiemobile man so helpful on this forum) - do you remember the guy

?:
http://www.seroussi.com/gr2006/index-1.html
(Don't ask me why this site is partially in Latin

)

Interesting! Just curious to test them!

PS: do you want the translation from latin? :P It's a 'little bit' strange thing for a TLC website

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Przemolog · 30-01-2007, 14:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndreA

Interesting! Just curious to test them!

PS: do you want the translation from latin? :P It's a 'little bit' strange thing for a TLC website

I can ask my wife - she is a Latin teacher

AndreA · 31-01-2007, 00:35

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Originally Posted by Przemolog

I can ask my wife - she is a Latin teacher

Well, I know very well latin language too

So tomorrow - now I'm really tired - I'll try my first translation from latin directly to ... english

DRNewcomb · 30-01-2007, 15:02

CelTrek appears to be a Yackie-like offering, based on a SIM from Israel with a US phone number. This means that it has the same problems roaming in countries that don't do business with Israel. Otherwise, I'm going to wait until I get a chance to use more of their features and read the detailed instructions before making any comments or recommendations. I can say that it worked everywhere they said it would work. They also have highly variable rates. It's very hard to have a "band 1", "band 2" description when every country seems to have different rates for incoming and outgoing calls or SMS.

I was invited to beta test (really it was a pre-beta) their SIM before their website came up. The test was supposed to be until Jan 7th and I wasn't supposed to say anything but was never told exactly what the non-disclosure restriction were. Since their website is now up and operating, don't think I'm violating any agreement by telling you about the product.

AndreA · 31-01-2007, 00:36

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Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

Since their website is now up and operating, don't think I'm violating any agreement by telling you about the product.

I hope they can be happy to be in this forum

DRNewcomb · **Update -** 06-03-2007, 15:52

Currently in Japan where I'm using the CelTrek SIM in preference to other options (I have only one WCDMA-2100 phone). While it seems to roam only on Vodafone-JP (a.k.a. J-Phone, SoftBank) the coverage is pretty good. Incoming calls are 24c/min, which gets pretty close to the about 19c/min to forward calls from the US to Iceland to use my 09 SIM and outgoing calls to the US are 34c/min. I took a brief call a couple of days ago and was charged only 12c. So, the billing is on some granularity less than one minute.

Their webpage allows me to download voicemail as an audio file and has very detailed call information. I haven't had much need to make a lot of calls since my room here has high-speed network access and I can make VOIP calls to the US for 2c/min.

I just keep thinking about those days when to make an international call when traveling, you had to go to the local telephone office, be assigned a phone booth, then return to the counter and pay. In many countries you couldn't make international calls from a regular public phone. Now we tote little phones on our belts that work just about anywhere and cost much less to use per minute than thoes calls I made in the 70s and 80s.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	30-01-2007, 15:02 CelTrek appears to be a Yackie-like offering, based on a SIM from Israel with a US phone number. This means that it has the same problems roaming in countries that don't do business with Israel. Otherwise, I'm going to wait until I get a chance to use more of their features and read the detailed instructions before making any comments or recommendations. I can say that it worked everywhere they said it would work. They also have highly variable rates. It's very hard to have a "band 1", "band 2" description when every country seems to have different rates for incoming and outgoing calls or SMS. I was invited to beta test (really it was a pre-beta) their SIM before their website came up. The test was supposed to be until Jan 7th and I wasn't supposed to say anything but was never told exactly what the non-disclosure restriction were. Since their website is now up and operating, don't think I'm violating any agreement by telling you about the product.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	Update - 06-03-2007, 15:52 Currently in Japan where I'm using the CelTrek SIM in preference to other options (I have only one WCDMA-2100 phone). While it seems to roam only on Vodafone-JP (a.k.a. J-Phone, SoftBank) the coverage is pretty good. Incoming calls are 24c/min, which gets pretty close to the about 19c/min to forward calls from the US to Iceland to use my 09 SIM and outgoing calls to the US are 34c/min. I took a brief call a couple of days ago and was charged only 12c. So, the billing is on some granularity less than one minute. Their webpage allows me to download voicemail as an audio file and has very detailed call information. I haven't had much need to make a lot of calls since my room here has high-speed network access and I can make VOIP calls to the US for 2c/min. I just keep thinking about those days when to make an international call when traveling, you had to go to the local telephone office, be assigned a phone booth, then return to the counter and pay. In many countries you couldn't make international calls from a regular public phone. Now we tote little phones on our belts that work just about anywhere and cost much less to use per minute than thoes calls I made in the 70s and 80s.