My experience with Onesimcard.

[powerlifter]

Originally Posted by rfranzq

1. How much is a personal access number both US and Canada]? Is there a choice of area codes or are they pretty limited [all in Massachusetts]?

2. I guess I know the answer to this one. From the US one can call the toll free access number or the local access number [and a personal access number] all for the same 35c/min. I know the price/cost difference is tiny [no more than 2 cents perhaps?]. Is there no way to have some price difference show itself? Not worth the effort? I know I would try to save some cents here of there [that is, choose to use a local access number over the toll free one].
Thanks for being here.

Several years ago I used a International roaming card. It was a Hop card. It went bankrupt and I lost over $100.00 of credit. Lesson learned. Now I use a local sim card. When I saw the .35 cents for a personal access number it reminded me of Hop. I have a 866 number that I can send to any sim card in the world. It is $2.00 a month and .6 cents a minute to call anywhere in Europe. What a huge profit for onesim. I have the number on my business card. So anyone can call me if they need to get a hold of me. All I have to do is go online an redirect the number to the sim I am using. Very simple and efficient. There are many companies that do this, and they have toll free numbers in many countries. I am through with International sims. They are to expensive,and the local sims in the EU are cheap now for roaming.

[prion]

Originally Posted by powerlifter

Several years ago I used a International roaming card. It was a Hop card. It went bankrupt and I lost over $100.00 of credit. Lesson learned. Now I use a local sim card. When I saw the .35 cents for a personal access number it reminded me of Hop. I have a 866 number that I can send to any sim card in the world. It is $2.00 a month and .6 cents a minute to call anywhere in Europe. What a huge profit for onesim. I have the number on my business card. So anyone can call me if they need to get a hold of me. All I have to do is go online an redirect the number to the sim I am using. Very simple and efficient. There are many companies that do this, and they have toll free numbers in many countries. I am through with International sims. They are to expensive,and the local sims in the EU are cheap now for roaming.

Do you mean it costs 6 cents/min to forward to a mobile in Europe or landline only?

[powerlifter]

Originally Posted by prion

Do you mean it costs 6 cents/min to forward to a mobile in Europe or landline only?

Yes I do. only .6cents for Russia I think it is .13 cents.

[mingelli]

Can you explain which company you use to forward the Did number for that price?

[powerlifter]

Originally Posted by mingelli

Can you explain which company you use to forward the Did number for that price?

Quote 1. The cost varies based on how long you subscribe to the personal second number ($1.67-$4.99/mo for local U.S. or toll free U.S./Canada; $4.99-$8.99 for local Canada). There are a number of area codes available in the U.S. and we currently offer three area codes in Canada (Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver).

2. Yes it is 35c/min billed to the received whether you use a common or personal access number. One advantage of the personal access number is that there is no prompt so you can use it for call forwarding from your domestic cell, office, et Quote

I use Kall8.com. They forward to any phone you use. There are several others that are out there. I just happened to think this one was the best for my situation.

I understand making a profit, but 5.00-9.00 a month plus 35 cents/min is way to much.
I can use my 866 number for call forwarding from my cell phone as well. I get a load of features with the number. Voice Mail & Fax Mailbox,Call Tracking Tools,Call Blocking,
Custom Call Forwarding,Conference Calling,and Virtual Calling Card. This is what I get for 2.00 a month. It is well worth it to me.

[RTuesday]

Originally Posted by powerlifter

I use Kall8.com. They forward to any phone you use.

Kall8 do charge more for forwarding to mobile for most countries. For example to a UK mobile it's 38c/min, France is 37c/min, Mexico 46c/min.

Kall8 International Rates

See the note at the top: "Special Services includes, but is not limited to, cellular and audiotext services". So a rate marked "France (Special Services)" is to a French mobile.

(I use localphone, incoming numbers in various countries cheap, voip account, forwarding to Mex mobile for 8.8c/min, UK mobile 12-25c/min, France mobile 11c/min).

Rob

(edit) for Estonia mobile, Kall8 is 52c/min, Localphone is 22-34c/min depending on the number - what is the number range for a OneSimCard card? The big advantage with a VOIP account that forwards when not connected to VOIP (like Localphone does) is that I only pay for forwards when out of range of wi-fi.

[prion]

Originally Posted by RTuesday

Kall8 do charge more for forwarding to mobile for most countries. For example to a UK mobile it's 38c/min, France is 37c/min, Mexico 46c/min.

Kall8 International Rates



(edit) for Estonia mobile, Kall8 is 52c/min, Localphone is 22-34c/min depending on the number - what is the number range for a OneSimCard card? The big advantage with a VOIP account that forwards when not connected to VOIP (like Localphone does) is that I only pay for forwards when out of range of wi-fi.

I think the prefix they are using is the +372531
Localphone charges 28,8 eurocents/min to that range

[snidely]

Originally Posted by powerlifter

Several years ago I used a International roaming card. It was a Hop card. It went bankrupt and I lost over $100.00 of credit. Lesson learned. Now I use a local sim card. When I saw the .35 cents for a personal access number it reminded me of Hop. I have a 866 number that I can send to any sim card in the world. It is $2.00 a month and .6 cents a minute to call anywhere in Europe. What a huge profit for onesim. I have the number on my business card. So anyone can call me if they need to get a hold of me. All I have to do is go online an redirect the number to the sim I am using. Very simple and efficient. There are many companies that do this, and they have toll free numbers in many countries. I am through with International sims. They are to expensive,and the local sims in the EU are cheap now for roaming.

I tend to agree. I have used VoiceStick.com, in the past, to do this from the U.S. to a pre-paid SIM.
Now, I often manage to make use of T-Mobile U.S. ability to make free calls back to U.S. if you have a wifi connection. That, and the ability to get/send email on my BB for 67 cents/day often means I don't need a pre-paid.
As many have discovered, many LD carriers refused to carry calls to high priced numbers like +372 mobile and formerly to United Mobile in Lichtenstein. I wouldn't dare have business contacts or friends spend lots of $ to call me. I always make sure they can get me by using my regular number - which then gets forwarded.
Once Google Voice initiates forwarding to intl. numbers - it will make things easy. GV has all kinds of advanced features. Numbers are free. You can use them to dial overseas, now, just not fwd.

...mike

[joeljcj2]

-what l are they talking about?
what are smses? do i care?
i want to rent a phone, call hotels, etc. for 3 weeks --price rteasonably
i want to use it in poland lithuania latvia estonia
just to call hotels, call home, etc

will i rent this phone, receve it, open it up, and use it without a masters in electrical engineering or computer sciences or programming

[willydat]

sms stands for "short message service" and simply is text-message in german!
(although it is an abreveation for an english term)