Piranha Mobile Sim Card

[MBK]

Originally Posted by gkeeper

No need to get personnel, there are to many horror stories of friends and family being ripped off by high termination numbers.

This is where you are wrong.

These people are not ripped off by the +372 numbers (termination isn't more than 0.15$ -- this also means that betamax is cheaper than the official termination rates). They are ripped off by their own carriers who are charging so much to call these numbers.

If people still keep using companies that are abusing them, they are free to do so.

But as I said, re the contacts this is an issue for, it is cheaper for you to call them back (via callback on Toggle + Travelsim) after they ring you than it is to accept the incoming calls with Piranha.

Originally Posted by gkeeper

To cap it all a lot of providers are now blocking calls,

In the 2 years I have been using the +372 I never had any issue of carriers blocking calls.

The only issue I had was when new area codes where released which some telcos didn't know about and so the calls didn't terminate until they corrected their routing to terminate properly to these new area codes (i. ex: the new +372-8x).

Originally Posted by gkeeper

Its a personal choice and so far i have had no issues with using Toggle or Piranha (outside of Toggle countries).

What I can say after having used the onesimcard (travelsim) for 2 years now, is that this SIM is on the same quality level as the most expensive contracts I have used (this means that it is much more solid than the Toggle SIM, which I am also using - sometimes incoming calls or SMS don't come through with Toggle, a minor issue which isn't really bothering me as the rates are very low).


But I agree, if you prefer to call direct, Piranha looks like a good choice outside of Toggle (but then again, betamax call back is working so well, why would anyone want to pay so much more for their calls?).

You see, a long time ago after some multiple outrageous bills I have made the choice to not let myself get abused anymore. My landline phones have been set up to call out exclusively with betamax for the past 8 years; the same applies to my mobiles.

The result? My phone bills went down from several hundreds to less than 10$ per month (some countries I was charged up to 1 or 2$/min to call were suddenly even free to call). It is cheaper also for local calls.

[fsotirop]

MBK which callback company you use? Betamax require internet connection to trigger a callback

[MBK]

Originally Posted by fsotirop

MBK which callback company you use? Betamax require internet connection to trigger a callback

I use betamax.

Yes it needs to enable the data connection to trigger the callback, but this is so cheap it's irrelevant imho.

With Toggle in Toggle countries the data cost is less than 1 cent to trigger the callback (in my account it is often showing 0.002). With the Travelsim perhaps 1 or 2 cents?.

On android I use phone2phone for this, it uses less data than mobilevoip (mobilevoip also checks the balance, the callerid, etc.. and this uses a little more data -- but here we are talking only 1 or 2 cents more, less with Toggle).

Of course some countries have very high data rates. But even then the callback amount to a couple cents only.

Also, on android I have installed a firewall (free download from app store, there are several, Avast mobile security also includes a firewall) to allow only 2G/3G data connections for the app triggering the callback. This is to make sure the phone will not use more than the 1 cent (or less with Toggle). This way you don't have dozens of apps on your phone connecting to the internet as soon as you enable the connection.

[rfranzq]

OK. I was going to write about my experience of switching between T-Mobile and AT&T networks in the USA. But I was unable to logon to switch and test. I called to verify why I could not log on and the person who answered the phone said they were doing maintenance and it would be a few hours before it would be back up.

I asked a question about US networks and he said in about '2 weeks' they would primarily be using T-Mobile and that it would have better data rates than AT&T. He actually expressed it in terms of dropping AT&T. I mentioned that AT&T did have better coverage and he indicated that they could keep people on AT&T if they requested it.
So this is a 'heads up' to anyone in the US who cares about which network they use. If AT&T is crucial to you, you might send them an email now so they can know how important this change might be to/for you.

[willemijns]

the core network seems to be now in poland (see IMSI code)... my SIM is gone ^^