United Mobile+ (new service with +44 Jersey number)

[herkdrvr]

Originally Posted by prion

I am not sure if they really cover China. they used to have problems with this country some months ago. Check with the CS. The +423 remains valid if you take the new card as long as their is credit in the sim.

I can speak to this directly as I use the +423 extensively in China. Yes, it works but at least once every trip it just won't work. Usually if you wait for an hour or so it will start to work again. There is a connection and you can "dial out" but you never get the call back and any calls to you go to your VM if you have it set up. I've sent numerous emails and they are aware of the problem and have an entire team of people set up to fix this problem (tongue in cheek). Seriously, it works pretty well but if you need it for business you should buy a sim there.

[Effendi]

So it seems O2 has some problems while Tmo works well? I should receive it too, but unfortunately I'm not in Genova till friday...

[meir]

I have moved closer to Prague City Centre. Now both O2 and T Mobile roaming working. But once I have experienced the same problem on T Mobile network like before on O2.

Card doesnt work with Motofone.

All the time using SE W700i.

Vodafone is not roaming partner in Czech Republic.

Here is link for the Jersey Telecom Roaming Partners.
http://www.jerseytelecom.com/upload/...n_30072007.pdf

[GadgetKen]

Nice find on the Jersey Telecom roaming list.

Hope the audio problem issue you found isn't a consistent problem with this new card...just a problem with some mobile phone carriers they use.

My new sim is in the mail. Will try it in the USA for SMS and balance check (to check audio without the the zone 6 roaming fee) on T-Mobile and AT&T when it comes later this week.

[meir]

Works fine now on both networks. No audio issue any longer.

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by meir

Works fine now on both networks. No audio issue any longer.

And how about the activation of the SIM itself?
More precisely, I have some questions about the balance.
Did yiu test the +447937 SIM with zero balance or you had to transfer some/all the balance from the +423663 SIM before?
If you hadn't transfered all the balance, is you +423663 SIM still active?

[MATHA531]

Got mine yesterday and put it through some tests but of course since I am in the USA, can't actually finish off calls or make calls as pricing to make or receive calls in USA is asiniely high.

1. Caller ID works both ways...

2. On AT&T long distance, calls go through pretty quickly so it seems that I will be able to use it when I travel (next trip two weeks to London, although as noted before, have always used a British PAYG in London as calls to the USA from there are dirt cheap on various PAYG's). In the past I was able to call forward from my landline to UM at an astoundingly cheap rate of 11¢/minute but those days are gone...calls to UK mobiles on my call forwarding plan are listed at 28¢/minute, not disgustingly bad but not as good as in the past. I assume there is no further surcharge to Jersey mobiles that it is treated as a call to a UK mobile.

3. The alternate 1016868 service does not seem to recognize the number so I couldn't complete any calls that way....

4. Don't know about sound quality, can't actually complete any calls (unless I want to throw away my credit) but I wonder wouldn't the sound quality be mostly dependent on the roaming partner being used? At least that's the way it seemed to work with the +423 (not that I hardly used their service to make calls but receiving calls was fine....using cbw and enlinea back in the good old days of 14¢ (can't believe it's only been 3 or 4 months) was not always great but that's understandable due t0 the nature of CBW and enlinea (they clearly route the calls through ISP's of some sort_ but then again wouldn't calls made and received with some of the phone cards with hundreds of minutes also go through these ISP's?

The big hang up, at least at present seems to be setting up my voicemail. In the past when I received the +423 card, to set up voice mail I shut the phone, waited about an hour for it to de-register from the US roaming partner (usually T Mobile USA but sometimes Cingular (interestingly enough, th ephone now say AT&T when roaming on Cingular/AT&T) and called into voicemail from a landline to re-set the pin and record my personal greeting. In any event, with the phone off, I can't seem to get through via any of my ld carriers...I get a message on my AT&T your international call cannot be completed. Please check the number and dial again or ask your operator...wonder if that is again caused by the fact it is a Jersey number or is just not working when the phone is off or needs some sort of activation...turn the phone back on and it registers and calls can be made (at least the phone rings)..see what happens today but this could be a problem.

Finally, interesting enough, when making a call via +44 UM, it's the usual callback we've grown to know and love but before you get the call back, the card flashes your balance on the display....that is nice and new.

[inquisitor]

Today I received my UM+ SIM, which I upgraded from my +423 SIM including a silver number at the cost of € 25.
To my surprise the card came with an initial credit of € 25. So in the end the silver number was for free. LOL

[BBB]

>>Wonder if there will be any changes to terms and conditions re topup amounts / frequency. Any gotchas in the small print?

>No, in UM's FAQs it says:

Quote:
Originally Posted by United Mobile
Q: When does the United Mobile SIM card and the credit expire?
A: SIM card and credit will become invalid if the credit has not changed for nine months.

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I have transferred my balance over but now when doing a balance check
it says

Your remaining credit is EUR 10.25
Expires in 359 days.

This does not tie up with the FAQ which says the card will expire if a chargable activity isn't done for nine months.

So if I make a call now does it reset to 365 days or just keep counting down?

If this is the case then the FAQ entry ought to be changed to something like:

If the card isn't used for a chargable activity within nine months it will be cancelled and credit forfeit.
If the credit isn't used within 365 days it will be forfeit anyway.

Or have I misunderstood something?

[inquisitor]

I've just sent an SMS from my UM+ SIM to my German O2 SIM. The message instantly arrived, allthough my UM+ phone said "sending failed". Afterwards it displayed the message "remaing credit EUR 25.00. No expiry".
Not only that the message wasn't charged a single cent, but my credit seems to have infinite validity.
UM is very generous to me!