yackie mobile review

[dg7feq]

I tried trough all the providers here again tonight:

regular phones:
01090 (British Telecom) connects with CLI and A+ audio for 36 ct/min
01033 (T-Com) connects with CLI and A+ audio for ~ 50 ct/min
no others working

cellphone:
T-Mobile connects as usual for 70ct/min
o2 connects for 36ct/min (homezone) and 89ct/min (mobile)

VoIP:
sipgate.de connects with CLI and A+ audio for 27 ct/min
1&1 (my DSL provider) connects with CLI and C- audio for 49 ct/min.
Skype reports "invalid number"
betamax clones start counting and ring but the phone doesnt ring

Chris

[Bossman]

Just a quick review of my usage of Yackie. I am currently on a cruise that has stopped in Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua & Barbuda, and St. Thomas, USVI. I am primarily using yackie in those islands except in USVI which I used my AT&T phone as it's a US teritory and does NOT cost extra. Yacke worked quite well withotu any problems at all. It registers on one of the networks (phone shows one of Digicel, C&W, bmobile) depending on location. I am quite satisfied.

Edit: Yackie's rate table is not 100% correct. All my calls were back to USA landline and mobile. And they were all billed at $0.45. Yackie's rate table lists calls back to landline and mobiles as $0.35 and $0.39 respectively.

[dg7feq]

I just made some test calls - also to keep the card alive and noticed that the rates are not correct in the calculator.

There is written:
You call from : Germany To : Germany Land Line : $0.5 /mn

i was billed:
2008-05-26 19:22:42 493677xxxxxx GERMANY Ilmenau Thur [Fixed] 12 1 mins 0.64

Technically it works well, the calls also to the DID have a very good audio quality now. But i would prefer to know what i pay before i call and not have a lottery when looking at the call list afterwards.

Chris


EDIT: confirmed by customer care now:

"Good Afternoon

We will have to go through the rates and update them and make any necessary changes. what was billed to your SIM is the correct cost per call. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Kind regards
xxxxxxxx"

[bbob]

EDIT: confirmed by customer care now:

"Good Afternoon

We will have to go through the rates and update them and make any necessary changes. what was billed to your SIM is the correct cost per call. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Kind regards
xxxxxxxx"


It's probably to difficult to link their billing system to publish the rates on the website. So everytime something changes in the billing systems it's automatically updated on the website.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by bbob

EDIT: confirmed by customer care now:

"Good Afternoon

We will have to go through the rates and update them and make any necessary changes. what was billed to your SIM is the correct cost per call. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Kind regards
xxxxxxxx"


It's probably to difficult to link their billing system to publish the rates on the website. So everytime something changes in the billing systems it's automatically updated on the website.

funny thing is that some time ago there was a newsletter that calls to landlines from 40 countries were lowered. Also germany was down from 6x ct to 50 ct. Now it seems that the new rates were only marketing but never changed in the billing system at all...

Chris

[Bossman]

Exactly. The lowered rates are displayed on the website. However, it's not reflected in the billing system. As I mentioned above, I experienced the same thing.

Originally Posted by dg7feq

funny thing is that some time ago there was a newsletter that calls to landlines from 40 countries were lowered. Also germany was down from 6x ct to 50 ct. Now it seems that the new rates were only marketing but never changed in the billing system at all...

Chris