eKit not receiving calls to US number when abroad

Bossman

I am on my last day of a 7-day visit to Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Ekit sim card has not really been useful for what I got it for. May be only 1 out of 10 calls to the US number rang through. I tested this several times. Since I have several ways to call, via Wifi, using other sim cards, etc. Thank god for TelnaMobile. Once I realized calls to the Ekit sim were not coming through, I changed my forwarding to Telna. And that worked for all incoming calls. Withe the non-functiojnal Ekit, the caller hears a ring, but it does not ring through to the Ekit sim and eventually just goes to VM. I switched carriers Digice/C&W, but the results were the same. Outgoing calls worked without a problem. Thanks to the resort's free WiFi (Only in the reception area), pretty much almost all my outgoing calls were from My Nokia E63 (Using voipcheap, skypemobile, and truphone clients) and my Tmobile Nokia UMA phones using the WiFi.

Like I always say, make sure to have a backup of more then one other option. It also helps that I have my netbook with voipcheap and skype on it.

kupe · 02-04-2010, 18:07

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Originally Posted by Bossman

I am on my last day of a 7-day visit to Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Ekit sim card has not really been useful for what I got it for. May be only 1 out of 10 calls to the US number rang through. I tested this several times.

Hi Bossman-

I had similar poor results with my eKit in the Caribbean last month- in our case the British Virgin Islands. Calls to my US number were not coming through. I've since been back and forth to Europe several times and got my eKit calls just fine. So this seems to be some sort of network issue in the Caribbean?

I do know next time I'm "down in da islands" I'm going to buy a local LIME Sim Card.

Kupe

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Bossman (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,257 Join Date: 22 Apr 2005 Location: Chicago Country:	same here - Not receiving calls to US number while abroad - 02-04-2010, 17:49 I am on my last day of a 7-day visit to Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Ekit sim card has not really been useful for what I got it for. May be only 1 out of 10 calls to the US number rang through. I tested this several times. Since I have several ways to call, via Wifi, using other sim cards, etc. Thank god for TelnaMobile. Once I realized calls to the Ekit sim were not coming through, I changed my forwarding to Telna. And that worked for all incoming calls. Withe the non-functiojnal Ekit, the caller hears a ring, but it does not ring through to the Ekit sim and eventually just goes to VM. I switched carriers Digice/C&W, but the results were the same. Outgoing calls worked without a problem. Thanks to the resort's free WiFi (Only in the reception area), pretty much almost all my outgoing calls were from My Nokia E63 (Using voipcheap, skypemobile, and truphone clients) and my Tmobile Nokia UMA phones using the WiFi. Like I always say, make sure to have a backup of more then one other option. It also helps that I have my netbook with voipcheap and skype on it. Phones: Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, Samsung Galaxy A50, ASUS zenfone 3, Sim cards: AT&T (Contract), 3 UK, Piranha Mobile