Xfone, prefix 07822

[andy]

This has now officially launched

http://www.xfonemobile.co.uk/home.aspx

Xfone/Swiftnet have been previously selling the IoM SIMs from their UK-based Auracall and Story brands, plus a reseller of theirs called Simply-Fone. They have a range of other services including several calling card and other callthrough arrangements, so they aren't beginners.

This is an actual UK mobile number, in a range allocated to a wi-fi and other non-standard providers though, so some international providers with a range of tariffs will charge more eg Voicestick, while most will be the same for all +447n (n not 0) numbers. For British users, it will be interesting to find out if calls to these 078221 numbers come out of contract inclusive minutes, and whether such calls can be forwarded to the SIM.

I'm browsing through slowly to compare rates. There are plenty of countries with free incoming calls, though it sometimes varies on different roamed networks within a country.

There's a phone (I don't recognise, but quad-band) included on an offer for the first 100 customers, £39.99 with £25 credit, and I have email details of this which I could forward.

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Originally Posted by andy

This has now officially launched

http://www.xfonemobile.co.uk/home.aspx

Xfone/Swiftnet have been previously selling the IoM SIMs from their UK-based Auracall and Story brands, plus a reseller of theirs called Simply-Fone. They have a range of other services including several calling card and other callthrough arrangements, so they aren't beginners.

This is an actual UK mobile number, in a range allocated to a wi-fi and other non-standard providers though, so some international providers with a range of tariffs will charge more eg Voicestick, while most will be the same for all +447n (n not 0) numbers. For British users, it will be interesting to find out if calls to these 078221 numbers come out of contract inclusive minutes, and whether such calls can be forwarded to the SIM.

Just for fun, I called 3 "random" +44 78221 numbers from a Polish Telecom payphone, namely 123456, 113355 and 115599. Each time I was connected and heard a recorded message in English (male voice): "Sorry, your call cannot be completed at this time. Please try again later". And, each time I was charged .

Originally Posted by andy

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I'm browsing through slowly to compare rates. There are plenty of countries with free incoming calls, though it sometimes varies on different roamed networks within a country.

There's a phone (I don't recognise, but quad-band) included on an offer for the first 100 customers, £39.99 with £25 credit, and I have email details of this which I could forward.

They are a bit funny about roaming in Poland.
They distinguish mobile, mobile Centertel, mobile Era, mobile Polkomtel and mobile TPSA. Centertel and Polkomtel ar3 just companies's names serving Orange and Plus networks, respectively, and TPSA is a nonsense. TPSA is a Polish abbreviation for Polish Telecom which is owned by France Telecom and owns Centertel .

The whole thing resembles me VoiceSim from VoiceServe about which I told elsewhere. They both use *117*00CountryCodeNumber# format for making outgoing calls and they both don't support SMS....