new UM card with +1/+44 dual number soon

[andy]

Originally Posted by f300

And to make things worse UM isn't a good long-term solution for any given place with all the incoming fees/expensive numbers. So you won't be really able to use the UM number as your main number and in effect any UM-based solution would have the added disadvantage of lost convenience.

It's fairly unlikely to be intended mainly as a long-term solution for people in only one given place

It's quite possible to use this without telling others the number.

For some UK and all US contract users (particularly those of the latter who haven't arranged cheap forwarding to existing global SIMs) it would come out of inclusive minutes.

Also, for users anywhere who can achieve cheap (e.g. 0 or 2 cent) forwarding to USA it could be quite interesting, achieving close to the Eurotariff in other countries as well, with the added bonus of a landline rather than mobile number for people at home to call it on. Yes, they could instead set up forwarding to a set of local SIMs, but one is simpler than many