Globalsimcard.co.uk (geosim) update

[andy]

Originally Posted by snidely

P.S. Last March I "crashed" a hi-tech VOIP, cell, phone conference in San Francisco and posted a quote from one of the gurus there that one or more of these intl. SIM providers would be shut down soon. ALthough I did state I didn't know the reason and was purely speculating what woud cause this, moderator Andy said I shouldn't post "rumors". (I did state that I couldn't confirm the statement this one individual made.)
Point is - obviously there are people on the inside who know more about this stuff (both technically and businesswise) than those of us here.

Yet again the same argument.

You didn't name one company and say it was in financial difficulties [which we now surmise might have been accurate]; you said the free ride or some such similar phrase of most of these operations would soon be drawn to an end. Even above, your wording is would be shut down, the word 'be' switching the grammar from active to passive, changing the party responsible

Both I and someone pointed out that most of the prognosis was a mixture of guesswork and incorrect assumptions about ownership regulatory and tax subsidy issues, and was not similar to the assymmetric Iowa tariffs.

The failure of Callkey is due to Callkey, not an environment that is intrinsically hostile to these possibilities. No territory has ceased to host such arrangements, and 3 or 4 more have opened up since the time of your comments.

The new owners of the remnants of Callkey appear to intend to resume operations; there are other prospective new entrants, and existing operations are hinting at improvements in tariffs and ease of use.

That doesn't quite fit that old scenario that suggested the best of times were about to be behind us.