EKIT and their U.S. number Service Life

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by RTuesday

My understanding is you need a chargeable service.

I forward the US number to another number when I'm not in the US. The forwarding destination can be can be set and changed online (this is one of the best features of the sim).

The forwarding works for me even if the US number is "inactive" I believe it's just the availability of sim registration that is activated/deactivated with the button on the site, the number remains working longer (up to 4 months).

My US number gets a few real calls, or wrong numbers, or marketing calls each month, which then creates chargeable events (the forwarding cost). If it didn't I'd just call it once every month or two to keep it active.

I have the original US/Canada eKit sim that only has a US number, no UK number, but I assume the same would apply to the US portion of the current combined sim.

Rob

How about just receiving a text message which costs 10¢ I believe? Won't thaty do it?

[RTuesday]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

How about just receiving a text message which costs 10¢ I believe? Won't that do it?

Yes, that should work as well. Free to send from Google Voice website. Makes it only 40c/yr (4 texts) to keep the number active.

I find the international call forwarding from the eKit useful. So there hasn't been a month (certainly not 4 months) when I haven't had a chargeable event. In other words, I do actually use it!

Rob