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The great Dictator!
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![]() Well, they always had it... but with very high rates...
Deceased Prepaids: CZ: Oskar, Eurotel; SK: Orange; DE: E-Plus, Aldi, Simyo; GE: Geocell; AM: Armentel; PL: Heyah, Plus; LT: Tele2; LV: Amigo; EE: Elisa; UA: Kyivstar; NZ: Vodafone; INT: UM, UM+, ICQSim. GSM/3G Phones: Nokia Lumia 630 dual sim |
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![]() Iowa's the Liechtenstein, IoM and Jersey combined of the US telecom.
The standard interconnect rules don't apply there. Mobile phones: iPhone 5, Blackberry 9900, Nexus S, Samsung S3322 duos Mobile data cards: Huawei E587u-5, Huawei E583c, Huawei E160 Postpaid SIMs: CA: Fido, Wind; INTL: Telna Prepaid SIMs: DE: Fonic, Lidl; AT: yesss!, bob; UK: O2; US: AT&T; RO: Orange, Vodafone; FR: b&you, Lycamobile; NL: Lycamobile; BE: Lycamobile, Jim Mobile; CL: Entel; MX: Telcel; INTL: eKit Blue, eKit Yellow Dead SIMs: too many to list |
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I think we'll start seing a bunch of asterixes and footnotes on LD service plans regarding calls to Iowa. |
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Belgium: Proximus Smart+ 15 (+32 496 contract) Voip: Weepee-voip.be Phones: Apple iPhone 32Gb 5S |
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![]() Iowa system applies to calls originating in the US only. So this system benefits the company only if the calls are made from within the USA. All calls outside US do not attract surcharges. So, an international sim with an Iowa number is not possible....
Also most of these companies were shut down (from AT&T I think) |
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![]() [QUOTE=DRNewcomb;16633]I believe it is. This is similar to some of the schemes/systems I've seen in Europe where you use your included mobile minutes to call a premium-rate access number which then gives you "free" international calling. QUOTE]
I guess the people using this service don't mind paying high fees for the access number especially according to this blog i just saw on blog.roam4free.ie regarding yak4ever "Yak4ever hits its first million minute week" This is pretty impressive even though we knew it was coming, Yak4ever terminated 1 million minutes in the last 7 days. We are thrilled with the progress the site is making and top destinations are China, Israel (thanks for the initial plug Jeff) UK (cheers Ewan) and Thailand Whilst I totally agree with Moshe on the future of free calls and the customers expectations of free call being derisory to the industry, I am nevertheless over the moon with this as it took months and months of hard work to get it back up. Hopefully we can keep this growing and out of the deadpool. |
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Going back to the subject of the thread - why are international SIMs are "home-based" in small European countries. Of course, the fact they are often a kind of "tax paradises" may play some role but the main reason is that their telecom companies have "no room" to grow on local markets. I suppose that there is similar reason for which GSM-on-ships services are also often provided by companies from small countries (and at least in two cases are the same companies which provide roaming agreements for international SIMs). I checked roaming partners list of the Polish mobile operators looking for GSM-onships roamings and I found the following Large countries based MCP - Norway (an operator "specialised" in "on-ships" roaming) TIM - Italy ATT - USA Small countries based OceanCell - Landsimmin Iceland Seanet - Vodafone Malta P&T Luxembourg Jersey Telecom Manx Telecom Perhaps someone of you knows more examples. |
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