Maxroam (aka Roam4Free V2)

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

Excuse my ignorance...

What is a RPP-obsessed US customers ?

OK, I used wrong words. RPP is a side-effect, not your target, of course .
My general impression from posts on this forum regarding the use of mobile phones abroad is that you, the US people, for some reasons are "obsessed" about being accessible on US phone numbers. That's why SIMs that provide US DID numbers with relatively low-cost forwarding to "real" SIM numbers are what you need. All this results in RPP payment model....

[Bossman]

I think the reason for that is so that most people that call us do not have to fiddle with dialing an international number. A lot of folks on this end get confused when they see they have to dial so many numbers. Most have never even dialed an international number. So, IMHO, having a US number for forwarding or aa sim with a US number is very attractive. Hence, the reason why most of us jumped on the yackie bandwagon in the beggining. Or look for a US DID number/VOIP that can forward internationally.

Originally Posted by Przemolog

OK, I used wrong words. RPP is a side-effect, not your target, of course .
My general impression from posts on this forum regarding the use of mobile phones abroad is that you, the US people, for some reasons are "obsessed" about being accessible on US phone numbers. That's why SIMs that provide US DID numbers with relatively low-cost forwarding to "real" SIM numbers are what you need. All this results in RPP payment model....

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by Bossman

I think the reason for that is so that most people that call us do not have to fiddle with dialing an international number. A lot of folks on this end get confused when they see they have to dial so many numbers. Most have never even dialed an international number. So, IMHO, having a US number for forwarding or aa sim with a US number is very attractive. Hence, the reason why most of us jumped on the yackie bandwagon in the beggining. Or look for a US DID number/VOIP that can forward internationally.

After Stu reported my post of 28-09-2007, 00:30 http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/show...7694#post17694 I'm feeling a little 'guilty' about my opinions .

First of all, it wasn't my intention to offend the Americans or anyone else.

As to the reasons given by Bossman.

1) People don't know how to dial an international number.
AFAIK the international dialing code in the US is 011. So, if you give to someone a number like 011 44..., 011 423..., 011 375... et. what is the difficulty with dialing such number???
2) People are confused when they have to dial so many digits.
That's in fact a problem. If saying "I'm abroad - it's a foreign number" doesn't help, i don't know what to do

The most important issue, IMHO, is the rates. Of course, international rates to mobile phones in CPP countries can't be very low. However, I haven't realised that US operators may rip off so much on international calling . $3.49 per min from Verizon to Jersey mobile - an example sent by Stu - was a little shock to me. Now I understand that leaving people with international numbers may result in two alternatives: either they will check the rates and they won't call at all or they will pay horrible bills...

From my point of view another issue is confusing about SIMs like MaxRoam - the SMS number is different from the voice number. Doesn't it matter?

[akraus88]

Does the MAXroam service expire if I don’t use it?

Yes it does. What we do is charge you a minimal monthly amount EUR 1 if you do not use your MAXroam service during a particular month.

This might sound unfair but it is common industry practice for pre-paid type services. Specifically the reason for doing this is because of accounting. When we have prepaid credits for our customers on our books they show up as a liability. If these credits are never consumed, or never expired, we would have a very difficult accounting problem.

Cubic Telecom is a different kind of communications provider. We want to explain why we do everything we do. We will never rip you off or mislead you.

If you would like to know anymore about this please feel free to contact us and we will provide all the gory details from our accountants.

[snaimon]

Originally Posted by Przemolog

My general impression from posts on this forum regarding the use of mobile phones abroad is that you, the US people, for some reasons are "obsessed" about being accessible on US phone numbers. That's why SIMs that provide US DID numbers with relatively low-cost forwarding to "real" SIM numbers are what you need. All this results in RPP payment model....

Beg to differ -- ever so slightly.

I am not obsessed. That is one. Several work colleagues have gone and taken either my UM SIM or an unlocked phone and bought local SIM. As you see, I have not taken the US # plunge (YET). I travel abroad maybe once a year on vacation. Probably not needed at this time. Might be different if I traveled more and needed to be reached for WORK/business.

A work colleague, actually a supervisor, is off to the UK next Tuesday and he did not even want a cell phone that I offered him. He has VERIZON and does not CARE that he will have no connectivity. Just the way he wants it. Staying with friends and doing hiking in countryside.

TRUE: is nice to tell your family friends to dial a US number to reach you anywhere in the world. Easier for pampered 'murikuns not accustomed to wearing out their fingers pushing maybe 4 or 5 extra digits. Poor, pampered Americans.

Both sons did use calling cards to reach us this summer from the US while we were in Germany. It can be done.

Cheers.

Stan