Special offer on new SIM Card

[gsmmaster]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

Sorry..I'm dense...are you saying that, generically speaking of course, in order not to have sit around and make roaming agreements with 190 different operators, you make roaming arrangements with a few and receive the roaming arrangements they have but in the process you have to sacrifice the ability of your own subscribers to roam in that country so that by, generically speaking of course, O9 had to make an agreement say with Swiss operators that in order to dig into their data base of roaming partners, they had to agree that their own subscribers could not roam there.

Makes no sense to me...it doesn't seem as if this "problem" has occurred with any of the Estonian, Liectenstein, Isle of Man (when they were living of course) or Jersey operators.

Hi Matha531,

I think it's probably more a case of the ability of smaller operators to do such a large amount of roaming agreements, seeing as most smaller operators throughout the world do roaming access agreements that operate similarly, 09 Mobile isn't an MVNO, and is AFAIK the only international prepaid roaming provider that operates it's own network, and I think that 09's network might have the best worldwide network coverage available on an international prepaid SIM even though there is unfortunately no coverage yet in Switzerland.

Of course this also extends to Yackie Mobile who's new SIM card is the subject of this thread, their product looks very professional and polished.

[ygeffens]

Originally Posted by gsmmaster

Hi Matha531,

I think it's probably more a case of the ability of smaller operators to do such a large amount of roaming agreements, seeing as most smaller operators throughout the world do roaming access agreements that operate similarly, 09 Mobile isn't an MVNO, and is AFAIK the only international prepaid roaming provider that operates it's own network, and I think that 09's network might have the best worldwide network coverage available on an international prepaid SIM even though there is unfortunately no coverage yet in Switzerland.

Of course this also extends to Yackie Mobile who's new SIM card is the subject of this thread, their product looks very professional and polished.

Earlier in this thread, Yackie wrote that they do terminate (some, not all) of their connections, themselfs. So, if that's true, they should be able to make Switserland available, if they can make some agreements with the Swiss Mobile Operators, AND they are allowed to terminate to countries that their supplier isn't allowed to terminate to.