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[Skaii2003]

Originally Posted by NFH

Is Toggle issuing genuine factory-cut nano-SIMs yet? Sofia, can you please confirm?

New Toggle Mobile SIM Card ... brand new SIM. Only seeing Micro size I think, but if it's like Truphone you have to call and ask for a Nano.

Excited for US launch. Can't wait to switch.

[tux]

Toggle Mobile Launching Enhanced SIM Card, United States Numbers Coming Soon | TruTower

Hope they'll confirm that.

[willemijns]

Originally Posted by Skaii2003

Excited for US launch. Can't wait to switch.

why it is so long ?

[MBK]

After using the UK Toggle Mobile SIM for a couple weeks, here is my feedback:

• everything works as advertised
• stable roaming (compared to EKIT which often loses the signal on the same networks)
• can completely disable voicemail (*137#) so callers are not charged when not available (EKIT charges callers even when the voicemail is disabled)
• excellent customer service, and it's free to call them too on +44 7438 646322 from the 20 Toggle countries.

This is now my new local SIM in Europe; thanks to this I have no need for European local SIMs anymore. It complements the Onesimcard (free incoming in 154 countries and free email-to-SMS) perfectly .

I hope the announced data packages will arrive soon.

[HappyCamp]

Originally Posted by MBK

After using the UK Toggle Mobile SIM for a couple weeks, here is my feedback:

• everything works as advertised
• stable roaming (compared to EKIT which often loses the signal on the same networks)
• can completely disable voicemail (*137#) so callers are not charged when not available (EKIT charges callers even when the voicemail is disabled)
• excellent customer service, and it's free to call them too on +44 7438 646322 from the 20 Toggle countries.

This is now my new local SIM in Europe; thanks to this I have no need for European local SIMs anymore. It complements the Onesimcard (free incoming in 154 countries and free email-to-SMS) perfectly .

I hope the announced data packages will arrive soon.

Thanks for the feedback! I ordered a SIM for my upcoming trip. They said it should take 10 working days to arrive. Looks like a great deal in four of the countries I will be traveling in.

[petkow]

This is a fascinating thread, full of very useful information. Though I have had a Toogle SIM for quite some time now, I have only recently managed to catch up on what all the in-house experts here have to say about it, and read all the testing reports. Thanks to everybody! It's time I spend some time back on ppgsm again!

I have a very quick question. I realise that UK mobile numbers can easily be ported to the main UK number, but does anybody know if there has been any indication from Toggle if it would be possible some day to port in other mobile numbers onto the IMSIs. e.g. Would it be possible to port in my normal Spanish number and get that assigned instead of the default allocation?... no doubt I would be obliged to pay the £5 p.a. fee to maintain it, but that is a small price to pay.

[inquisitor]

Good to hear from you, petkow. I have been wondering where you got to for quite a while.

Given that toggle has not kept any of their numerous promises (data bundles for all toggle countries, Italian numbers, US numbers) and given that Lycamobile Germany hasn't been supporting number imports for months due to some unspecified technical issue, I think it's not even worth asking them. But it would indeed be great if we could also import numbers for other toggle countries than the UK.

[UKSTEVE]

Yes,

Lyca were notorious a few years back for making all sorts of claims to the press, but failed to keep to them...

I suspect this was due to over-keen management - and then leaving it to staff to sort out impossible services.

Myself I doubt that Toggle would import numbers to its multi-IMSI scheme for the simple reason any revenue sharing schema it enjoys would fly out of the window in many countries.

Just my two cents worth.

+Steve

[HappyCamp]

One thing I noticed is that Toggle Mobile uses a +44 74 XXXX-XXXX number which seems to be more expensive to call. localphone.com charges 2.3 cents per minute to call a lot of mobile networks in the UK. But they charge 14.9 cents per minute to call the Toggle Mobile (Lycamobile) number. I don't think it is as expensive as an Isle Of Man number, but still more than other mobile networks.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by HappyCamp

One thing I noticed is that Toggle Mobile uses a +44 74 XXXX-XXXX number which seems to be more expensive to call. localphone.com charges 2.3 cents per minute to call a lot of mobile networks in the UK. But they charge 14.9 cents per minute to call the Toggle Mobile (Lycamobile) number. I don't think it is as expensive as an Isle Of Man number, but still more than other mobile networks.

yes, thats true, fortunately as described some posts above you can easily port any UK mobile number on the toggle card (e.g. a cheap obtained card from ebay) and then you pay the 2.3 cent/min instead of 14.9 cent/min...

Chris