United Mobile - dead, CallBlue - dead, FreeGlobalSim - dead; just ordered TravelSim

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Originally Posted by hrgajek

Liechtenstein Prefix +423 663 is a "premium" number prefix, this means, Caller have to pay a higher fee, to reach those numbers. Liechtenstein Telco gave a higher amount to United-Mobile and therefore they could pay the interconnect till China for example. But there must have been a new Interconnect-Tariff regime, UM decided to upset their pricing and to charge one time even per incoming call.

IoM (Isle of Man) and Jersey Calls are billed as "landline" but they are ending in mobile system. These Islands have unbalanced calls. Less Calls are going TO the island, most calls are going from the islands. So an international mobile phone company attracts lots of incoming callers and minutes.

But those models are very hard calculated and if the ugly customers do not make enough outgoing calls and pay for this (and do NOT use free incoming to set up a external Callback like "Enlinea" or others) then the model gets instable.

Thank you for clarifying!

and also thanks to others who explained about the Lichtenstein premium number trick. Betamax charges 0.07EUR/min for calls to the UK Islands.

Regarding the new Vodafone UK 3 months free roaming trial, indeed it seems like a new trend will emerge for European operators.
This is probably sign of recession: less business travelers and those that do, care more about their spending. Resulting profit loss for Vodafone UK probably equates to less than 3 months of advertisement spending and this stunt will likely have better ROI.