[Morocco] Sim4travel now charges incoming calls. Any alternative?

snidely · 08-08-2009, 02:46

I am surprised no one has suggested the obvious sources for free incoming calls in Morocco. I believe there are several carriers there - ALL offering free incoming!!! Just use a forwarding service with a local number in your home country if you want callers to make calls to you w.o. them having to pay
As you know, there is no such thing as "free incoming". Except for the U.S. and Canada ( and maybe another place or 2), someone has to pay for the call - with most international SIMS the cost is born by the caller when they dialed a super expensive Estonia or Lichtenstein number.

...mike

ygeffens · 09-08-2009, 09:42

Snidely, absolutely right !

Because of all the troubles with these international sims, I moved to buying local sims (most of the time in advance of my departure), I set up forwarding, and use Jajah for making calls myself. Before I leave I ask Jajah to change my mobile number to the one I'll be using. I allways have internet access where I am, so, cheap enough for me, and no troubles not being able to receive a call because of stupid non-working roaming agreements of these international sims.

That's how I do it now.
Just sharing...

EDIT for typo

Gaya · 12-08-2009, 14:46

Thanks to a certain Irish low-cost airline company, I'm in Morocco now and here is my feedback:

GSM coverage is surprisingly good even when climbing the Toubkal (max altitude: 4157m)

I bought a prepaid "Méditel Médijahiz" simcard (official price: 30dh, 2.5€ and Souq price: 20dh, 1.65€) which provides good coverage and excellent sound quality

With this Sim, I use a "Méditel Dawlia" scratch card: Calling western Europe landlines is for 2.5dh/minute, 0.208€ (peak period) or 1.75dh/minute, 0.145€ (after 8 p.m.).

Internet access is rare when trekking in the Atlas, so no VoIP, but that's not a problem: Sound quality is much better than any VoIP solution with these Méditel cards (a company mainly owned by Telefonica), and the scratch card is very easy to use: You just have to store 133*scratch_number on your phone, so you can dial directly once you're connected to the server, after very few seconds.

Thanks everybody for your help: I found much more reliable (and cheaper!) than Jersey cards

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	08-08-2009, 02:46 I am surprised no one has suggested the obvious sources for free incoming calls in Morocco. I believe there are several carriers there - ALL offering free incoming!!! Just use a forwarding service with a local number in your home country if you want callers to make calls to you w.o. them having to pay As you know, there is no such thing as "free incoming". Except for the U.S. and Canada ( and maybe another place or 2), someone has to pay for the call - with most international SIMS the cost is born by the caller when they dialed a super expensive Estonia or Lichtenstein number. ...mike Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.

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ygeffens (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 160 Join Date: 12 Jan 2007 Location: Arendonk, Belgium Country:	09-08-2009, 09:42 Snidely, absolutely right ! Because of all the troubles with these international sims, I moved to buying local sims (most of the time in advance of my departure), I set up forwarding, and use Jajah for making calls myself. Before I leave I ask Jajah to change my mobile number to the one I'll be using. I allways have internet access where I am, so, cheap enough for me, and no troubles not being able to receive a call because of stupid non-working roaming agreements of these international sims. That's how I do it now. Just sharing... EDIT for typo Sim: Belgium: Proximus Smart+ 15 (+32 496 contract) Voip: Weepee-voip.be Phones: Apple iPhone 32Gb 5S

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Gaya (Offline) Junior Member Newbie Posts: 4 Join Date: 06 Aug 2009 Country:	12-08-2009, 14:46 Thanks to a certain Irish low-cost airline company, I'm in Morocco now and here is my feedback: GSM coverage is surprisingly good even when climbing the Toubkal (max altitude: 4157m) I bought a prepaid "Méditel Médijahiz" simcard (official price: 30dh, 2.5€ and Souq price: 20dh, 1.65€) which provides good coverage and excellent sound quality With this Sim, I use a "Méditel Dawlia" scratch card: Calling western Europe landlines is for 2.5dh/minute, 0.208€ (peak period) or 1.75dh/minute, 0.145€ (after 8 p.m.). Internet access is rare when trekking in the Atlas, so no VoIP, but that's not a problem: Sound quality is much better than any VoIP solution with these Méditel cards (a company mainly owned by Telefonica), and the scratch card is very easy to use: You just have to store 133*scratch_number on your phone, so you can dial directly once you're connected to the server, after very few seconds. Thanks everybody for your help: I found much more reliable (and cheaper!) than Jersey cards