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Default 22-08-2011, 07:57

Effendi has yet to be "condescending". You posed a vague question that didn't make a lot of sense, and he asked you what you meant.

There are no SIMs in Europe that only offer local calls. Many years ago, there were some that offered lower rates to a local calling area, or a user-specified area, but these have disappeared, and I don't remember if any of these were prepaid. (One of the functions of CellBroadcast was to display the calling prefixes that were considered local from that location.) But there were never any local-only SIMs.

Furthermore, since all mobile phones have national, non-geographic prefixes, it's hard to see how the effort of crippling the SIM to be marketed and work only in a specific area would be worth it in a market where calls to anywhere in the same country have the same price.


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Default 22-08-2011, 11:35

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Many years ago, there were some that offered lower rates to a local calling area, or a user-specified area, but these have disappeared, and I don't remember if any of these were prepaid. (One of the functions of CellBroadcast was to display the calling prefixes that were considered local from that location.) But there were never any local-only SIMs.
They existed in Italy on prepaid. I remember the tariff DOVE by Wind, for example, with which you could choose one Italian province you could call at off peak rates 24h a day. Omnitel (now Vodafone) and TIM also had tariffs which used cell broadcast to offer cheaper rates while on the home cell. They have all disappeared, anyway.


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