ekit dual number [US & UK] SIMs

[JDekit]

Originally Posted by Bossman

It looks like so from the post above. It says incoming on the US number incurs 19c plus whatever the incoming rate is in the country. So, since the UK is free incoming you pay just 19c. If it were another country that is NOT free incoming the cost will be 19c plus whatever the incoming rate is for that country.

Just speculating though, so we'll wait on JDEkit to clarify.

Thanks Bossman you are correct.

[JDekit]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

A call coming into my mobile phone (which has a US number) is forwarded to the US number and I am in the UK......what do I pay to receive the call in the UK?

(Inother words, if somebody calls the US +1 number, do I simply pay 19¢ to receive the call in the UK?)

Correct, if you revceive a call on the US number, while you are in the UK, you pay 19c. When you receive calls on the US number you pay 19c plus the normal cost of receiving a call (easiest to refer to the ekit rates page), which in the case of the UK is one of the 51 countries that cost 0c to receive a call on the UK number.

[Stu]

Can you print a report that resembles a classic phone invoice which would be suitable for reimbursement?

[FBlack_111]

I think the layout for the "call history" is satisfactory to submit for reimbursement to a company. Each call is on a separate line. Each line says the date, call details, minutes of the call, and amount charged. It will also say if the call was outbound or inbound. Outbound calls have the number dialed as well. Here's a sample of what the call details say from some of my call history:

Outbound call from your mobile phone in France (Cellular) to +44792441**** in United Kingdom (cellular)

Inbound call via +447924****** to your mobile phone in Ireland

Outbound call from your mobile phone in Turkey (Cellular) to +1858******** in United States

[kupe]

Originally Posted by FBlack_111

I think the layout for the "call history" is satisfactory to submit for reimbursement to a company.

Wow! An employer that reimburses for business calls! Where do I sign up?

Kupe...who spends two weeks per month in Europe for his employer and gets zero reimbursement (which is why I'm always scoping here for the best deals! )

[kupe]

Hey gang-

Got my eKit SIM from Telestial today. Trying it out here in the US and seems to work great!

Quick Voicemail question for eKit...Does anyone know if you can access Voicemail remotely? i.e. call your US or UK eKit number from another number and listen to Voicemail remotely?

Thanks!

Kupe

[JDekit]

Originally Posted by kupe

Hey gang-

Got my eKit SIM from Telestial today. Trying it out here in the US and seems to work great!

Quick Voicemail question for eKit...Does anyone know if you can access Voicemail remotely? i.e. call your US or UK eKit number from another number and listen to Voicemail remotely?

Thanks!

Kupe

Hi Kupe,

You can't currently access mobile voice mail remotely unfortunately. This is something we have in the development pipeline. It will be provided as part of the ekit travel journal functionality. The travel journal is currently provided free to all ekit SIM users. Essentially the service automatically maps your travels on a google map using cell tower locations used by your SIM. The travel journal has strong privacy settings (private, family & friends, public), and can be switched off. For those wishing to use it, you can provide a password to family and friends, they can see where you are, the local time and weather, if your mobile is on or off, send you a text or call you, you can do text updates to the journal, upload photos, etc and family and freinds can share in your travel experience.

One of the feature we'll integrate into the travel journal is the ability to pick up your voice mail via the travel journal website. You will login with your password, will see a record of your trip, and in addition to seeing comments and messages to the journal from family and friends, you will also be able to play voice mail messages through the PC for free.

If you haven't had an opportunity to review the travel journal, I'd recommend it - there is a demo on the website.

Please let me know if you have any more questions.

Regards,

John

[MATHA531]

Got the card through telestial and putting it through some testing....

Am in the USA....calls to the +1 number complete fairly quickly...have no idea of the quality of the call as I am not answering it......

Calls to the +44 number also go through quickly......one big big difference though...

Calling on the +1 number I do get the caller id of the calling number

Calling on the +44 number does not show caller id....this is a big problem. Is ekit aware of it???

(BTW got a 978 area code on US card...I think this is in Mass..(would have preferred NYC 212 or 718 or 917 or 347 or 646 for call forwarding purposes...can one choose the area code of the US number and can it be changed)

Finally I always change the pin number to one I use all the time...tried it with the ekit dual card and while it took the change of pin number, when I tried to turn on the card the next time, it said sim card fails to register...had to change it back to the original one....is this a none defect?

Other than that, prices seems right.....

[FBlack_111]

Matha:

I was under the impression that you cannot change the password on the SIM but just the password to log on to your account.

Also, you said "Calling on the +44 number does not show caller id..". Do you mean that your number does not show up on the caller id of the other phone?

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by FBlack_111

Matha:

I was under the impression that you cannot change the password on the SIM but just the password to log on to your account.

Also, you said "Calling on the +44 number does not show caller id..". Do you mean that your number does not show up on the caller id of the other phone?

Well a normal part of sim card fact is that when the card comes with a PIN, you have the ability to change the PIN to anything you want. Have done that with several sim cards.......apparently ekit dual passport doesn't allow it.

As far as the lack of caller id....I used my home phone to call the +44 number...call went through and cell phone rang but caller id showed unknown.....not good.