next country?

[andy]

It's a joke. In the UK, before cable turned up almost all of the landline telephones were run by the Post Office which was then then split to British Telecom ; BT was privatised in the mid-80s. But Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorkshire, northern England) has had a separate arrangement owned by the city for many years, and still partly is though about half was floated a few years back. Nowadays it's diversified owns an ISP and other interests, as well as still running local phone services there.

http://www.kcom.com/aboutus/ourhistory/

Back to SIMs, perhaps even the cheapest countries to call may be able to host them, if the termination fees are based on other forwarded numbers ... which means they might come from anywhere

[DRNewcomb]

Originally Posted by andy

It's a joke. In the UK, before cable turned up almost all of the landline telephones ....

Got it. I was wondering if it was another of those small islands (e.g. Sark) with some strange legal status.

[Malkav]

Originally Posted by andy

It's a joke. In the UK, before cable turned up almost all of the landline telephones were run by the Post Office which was then then split to British Telecom ; BT was privatised in the mid-80s. But Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorkshire, northern England) has had a separate arrangement owned by the city for many years, and still partly is though about half was floated a few years back. Nowadays it's diversified owns an ISP and other interests, as well as still running local phone services there.

http://www.kcom.com/aboutus/ourhistory/

Back to SIMs, perhaps even the cheapest countries to call may be able to host them, if the termination fees are based on other forwarded numbers ... which means they might come from anywhere

awwww you rotton spoilsport you, i coulda wound up the doc for ages with all the talk of the R o H!


:-p

Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

Got it. I was wondering if it was another of those small islands (e.g. Sark) with some strange legal status.

Yeah was just messing with you, no offense meant!

[petkow]

Originally Posted by andy

Back to SIMs, perhaps even the cheapest countries to call may be able to host them, if the termination fees are based on other forwarded numbers ... which means they might come from anywhere

Unfortnately I got lost with the "based on other forwarded numbers" bit! Can you explain this a bit more? Maybe I just need to be pointed to some sort of dummies guide to how termination works on free roaming SIMs! I thought its just the relatively high incoming call termination that actually pays for roaming into foreign networks.