Camel mobile

[fsotirop]

in USA is tested and worked fine, free incoming calls both on AT&T and T-MOBILE networks.
-outgoing calls from US ( both on AT&T and TMOBILE networks) charged at only 0.35eur/min (to all destinations).
-While in US, calling to another camelmobile costs just 0.24eur./minute
-Data roaming availiable on AT&T, rate at 0.69eur. per mb... billed in 10kb increments!
-outgoing SMS while in US costs 0.30eur/sms worldwide.
-incoming SMS while in US free.

as said on a previous post...Camelmobile uses Vodafone's worldwide roaming agreements and call routing, so there is NO possibility you can't get it work.

the camelmobile simcard I use in Greece, work and bill charges exactly as advertised.


another great feature of camelmobile just discovered is the «Call me back» service.

If your SIM-card is out of balance, you can send SMS message to any user of any mobile
operator worldwide asking him to call you back, using the service «Call me back».
The service is provided free of charge and doesn’t require any additional set up.
In order to ask a user to call back, you just dial the command on your
phone *146*90*00 code of the country phone number# and press «Call» button.
There is a notofication on screen of your phone saying that message has been
sent.
The user, who you are asking to call you back, will receive SMS from you, saying
«The user has not enough balance to make a call. Please call back».
For convenience someone can add the command *146*90*00 code of the country phone
number# to his contact list. When needed it can choose it from the list and press
the «Call» button.
The service «Call me back» may be used no more than 5 times in 24 hours.

Very Important feature!

[Bossman]

I need a backup to my Ekit and I am considering this sim. I have Telna, but, well...

Next trip is in June to Montego Bay, Jamaica for a week. The best I have right now is Telna at $0.50/min. I just do not want to depend on Telna alone. Ekit is now showing $1.29 to receive there. It used to be way cheaper(Actually I believe it was free when I last used Ekit there 2 years ago) than that, even up to 2 months ago.

Bottom line - I am trying to minimize my initial outlay for a sim card. So, how much credit comes on the card as default? Then I will decide if I am willing to pay the 10Euro to mail it to the US.

[fsotirop]

simcard costs 10eur.
registered airmail posting (worldwide) costs 10 eur. from 1 to as many simcards ordered together.
no balance on initial purchase, you either add balance later or at the time of purchasing the sim.
except creditcard & bank transfer they also accept paypal.


*In Jamaica they offer free incoming calls, outgoing calls at 0.55eur./minute.
sms while in Jamaica 0.30eur/sms

they have roaming agreement with both Oceanic Digital Jamaica Limited (2G & 3G) and with Digicel (2G)

[Bossman]

If I understand correctly, that's 20 euro for a sim card with no credit. yeah, I checked the Jamaica rates already.

Originally Posted by fsotirop

simcard costs 10eur.
registered posting (worldwide) costs 10 eur. from 1 to as many simcards ordered together.
no balance on initial purchase, you either add balance later or at the time of purchasing the sim.
except creditcard & bank transfer they also accept paypal.


*In Jamaica they offer free incoming calls, outgoing calls at 0.55eur./minute.
sms while in Jamaica 0.30eur/sms

they have roaming agreement with both Oceanic Digital Jamaica Limited (2G & 3G) and with Digicel (2G)

[fsotirop]

yes and you can add airtime starting from just 1euro!!
also bear in mind that camelmobile simcards & the balance on it do NOT expire if you don't recharge them!
the only condition is to make a chargable call or sms or data connection once every 24months!

[Bossman]

Thanks for the detailed update. Are you affiliated with them or something?

A lot of things about the sim sound good, however as someone that has lost money on several similar companies (just recently with Yackie/Paytoo) that have gone under, I would rather not spend 20 euro on sim with no credit.

Originally Posted by fsotirop

yes and you can add airtime starting from just 1euro!!
also bear in mind that camelmobile simcards & the balance on it do NOT expire if you don't recharge them!
the only condition is to make a chargable call or sms or data connection once every 24months!

[fsotirop]

Originally Posted by fsotirop

no.
they are competitors.
they just use the same routing & operating roaming platform. that is why they have some common quick access short codes.

Camelmobile is a fully licensed operator in Latvia, registration licence no: 40103181903. About company - CamelMobile
Camelmobile is a subsiadary of BITE-LATVIA network. For Private | www.bite.lv
BITE-LATVIA network is owned by the mother-company BITE Group ... BIT? - BIT? Group
mother-company BITE Group also operates in Lithuania with its owned network BITE-LITHUANIA www.bite.lt » Mok?jimo planai
Camel mobile is the international part (only for roaming) of BITE-LATVIA...doesn't operate localy in Latvia, even though it uses the mobile tel. numbers prefixes of BITE-LATVIA +371222 & +37121.
Bite Group is included on Vodafone's worldwide partner networks since 2003... BIT? - BIT? and Vodafone partnership
that is why camelmobile simcards are preset to prefer vodafone networks abroad, even though you can manually select another network.


camelmobile was founded is 2005..and operates also via several worldwide resellers (mainly european) such as: alfamobile, teletie, novikontas, altitel, novasim, teqli-telecom e.t.c.

Bossman read above post..


no, i'm a customer of them. i'm an IT engineer specialized on telec.services.
the company i work for, have order 4test simcards from them, our testing trials (running approx.1month) show NO bug and exact billing as advertised.
we trialed not only billing & service availiability but each one of their offered services, for e.g. gprs, online managemnet, call me back, sip, cellId tracking, free sms from their webiste etc
the only service not working properly is the fax-receiving but they're working on it as they told us.
we're looking for to replace all our current international simcards (around 50+ simcards) for our fleet drivers.
our current simcards are of cloud9 service (+4477000 numbers)

all these years after tried most of the international simcards (ekit, tru, maxroam, united, travelsim, telna, planetsim, onesimcard etc) we now tend to conclude that camelmobile is the best overall value for money option and most promising roaming product availiable on current market.
except their very competitive rates and services, we're impressed with their customer support (both sales & technical) and with their fully functional ONLINE MANAGEMENT ACCESS (http://manager.camelmobile.com)

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by fsotirop

Bossman read above post..


no, i'm a customer of them. i'm an IT engineer specialized on telec.services.
the company i work for, have order 4test simcards from them, our testing trials (running approx.1month)

i am constantly doing the same for our developers and customers fleet cards At the moment we are doing fine with XXSim but the camel card for sure is another good option.

Chris

[fsotirop]

Originally Posted by fsotirop

this is the new-reduced-pricelist of all their services (roaming voice, roaming data, roaming sms, roaming voice bundles & sip calling) :
https://rapidshare.com/files/1501317...ail_1apr12.xls

outgoing calls within european union are charged per second (with a minimum of 30sec).
incoming calls within european union countries are charged per second with no minimum duration.
sms sent from an eu country to another eu country is charged with 0.11eur/sms.
sip calling billing per second!

receiving calls in the USA is free and outgoing rates from USA to all over the world at 0.35eur per minute !

new link directly for their website: http://www.camelmobile.com/assets/files/csv/rates.pdf

[fsotirop]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

i am constantly doing the same for our developers and customers fleet cards At the moment we are doing fine with XXSim but the camel card for sure is another good option.

Chris

yes, it seems like it's at least interesting to viewers, that's why this camelmobile thread which was created on 27-03-2012 ,so is only 30days old and has almost 5000 hits/views.