SeaRoam - anyone know anything about this company?

[tivoboy]

Well, I have an immediate need for something just like this. Will be travelling in the black sea, jordan, russia, croatia, I think this option seems pretty simple to do. Any have any history with maxroam or this new solution?

they don't show any "cruise ship" rates, even though they list them.

The difference in pricing could simply be contracts. Maxroam maybe have an existing contract with carriers, and now the roaming fees are dropping, but they cannot simply get out of the exisiting contract or obligations. So, they put out a new company and get a new contract for the interim.

[petkow]

they don't show any "cruise ship" rates, even though they list them.

There seems to be some confusion arising because of the name of this product. I really do not think this is intended to be a product for roaming on picocells whilst out at sea. It is only called searoam as it is aimed at seamen whilst in port in a foreign country.

At the end of the day cruise ship roaming will always be expensive. I doubt whether any products exist that will have negotiated significant discounts on these.
The infrastructure for these and the live sat uplink aint cheap at all. Though your home network may be making a healthy cut, they still work on a cost-plus basis, where the cost in this case is high.

As for your question about whether members of this site have experience with MaxRoam, just search through the site a bit. You will find many members have experience with this company and various evolutions of its products. However as far as I am aware, apart from our 2 new single post friends above, no member of ppgsm has a seaRoam SIM!