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[inquisitor]

It's hardly surprising that toggle now blocks roaming through the "Roaming" IMSI for those countries you have an IMSI from. I would rather assume that there were technical reasons why this barring hasn't been implemented earlier and not legal/contractual ones. You probably remember what I wrote in February in this regard:

Originally Posted by inquisitor

I'm rather surprised that you can still use the global IMSI within a toggle country even if you have a national IMSI from the corresponding country. Once a subscriber has obtained a national IMSI by ordering a local number, roaming through the global IMSI should be blocked in that particular country in order to save costs.
With FreeTimeTelecom the global IMSI did not register in Germany, where they had a local IMSI from now defunct vistream/Telogic Germany. But I guess for toggle it's way more complicated because you would need to define allowed roaming networks for each subscriber individually based on each subscriber's activated local numbers/IMSIs and then you would need to permanently update Vodafone NL's HLR with these records.

[willemijns]

IMHO i think this barring was recent and during the last negociation, lycatel has asked to better filter network and countries.

in any case, it is always b€tt€r than a lycatel customer use a country partner
with his own lycatel MCC/MNC code

[ronwi]

This blocking is a good thing. I was in Spain a while ago and for some reason my SIM did not go automatically to the Spanish IMSI - it stayed in roaming mode and charged me quite a bit more than the advertised 3p per minute. I finally figured out how to get into the SIM menu and I manually changed to Spain and all was well.

Blocking the roaming IMSI in Toggle countries would seem to be an extra layer to prevent inadvertent and expensive use of the roaming network.

Originally Posted by inquisitor

It's hardly surprising that toggle now blocks roaming through the "Roaming" IMSI for those countries you have an IMSI from. I would rather assume that there were technical reasons why this barring hasn't been implemented earlier and not legal/contractual ones. You probably remember what I wrote in February in this regard:

[dg7feq]

my card will travel to france on monday, lets see how it will work in "real-world" conditions.
regarding your 11 pound topup on 10 pound payment - they advertise that you get a bonus for each online-topup.
The customer service called me several times last week cause there was a problem displaying the correct DID when calling on the german numbers (they cut off the country code and displayed e.g. +3012345 instead of +493012345). After some network trace they found the error and fixed it right away. I am very pleased with the customer service so far.

[NFH]

On Toggle's Facebook page, it says "£5 voucher is available anytime now, sale for £5 ), no expiry date". Does anyone know where you can buy a £5 top-up or voucher?

[inquisitor]

Originally Posted by NFH

On Toggle's Facebook page, it says "£5 voucher is available anytime now, sale for £5 ), no expiry date". Does anyone know where you can buy a £5 top-up or voucher?

The owner of this Facebook page, which is run by some reseller who doesn't even have an online shop, has answered. He's selling those vouchers by email (toggle@hp-vn.com).

Originally Posted by dg7feq

The agent told me that currently they always display the UK number as the card is mainly focused on UK customers. I asked if its possible to swap and he wanted to call back next week. Yes, they really do call back, wonderful helpdesk experiance

All numbes on your SIM are reachable simultanously without additional cost

The more I think about this product, the more I like it. I wonder why they don't market it in further markets with a local number as primary one instead of the British one. I've recently checked some statistics to evaluate the potential for such a multi-SIM product in Germany and found that there are about 54k German residents commuting to work in Switzerland and 41k French residents commuting to work in Germany, who would be a great target.
The only thing I miss is data packs that are valid for all countries from which you have an IMSI. Toggle is obviously in the position to tear down the borders in the European mobile market caused by roaming fees and make Neelie Kroes' dream of a pan-European telecoms market come true.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

The more I think about this product, the more I like it.

Yes, i also think the card has a huge potentional - also regarding business. We are a french-german company and thus always cross bordering and relying on calling each other on the cellphones. So far costs a fortrune on our t-mobile D contracts. If the card works well we'll equip the most called people with a cheap 2nd phone to have a german # in france and the other way around.
Also international calling is much cheaper than on our t-mobile (well we have flatrate to EU landlines, but the rest of the rates are riddiculous)

[inquisitor]

My SIM always shows the UK number during outbound calls. Shouldn't the German number be displayed as caller ID when placing a call from the toggle SIM using the German IMSI?

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

My SIM always shows the UK number during outbound calls. Shouldn't the German number be displayed as caller ID when placing a call from the toggle SIM using the German IMSI?

The agent told me that currently they always display the UK number as the card is mainly focused on UK customers. I asked if its possible to swap and he wanted to call back next week. Yes, they really do call back, wonderful helpdesk experiance

All numbes on your SIM are reachable simultanously without additional cost

[dg7feq]

Support confirmed today that currently only the UK number can be displayed on outgoing calls:

"Further to your email, please be informed that as per the current process the UK Toggle mobile number will displayed when you make calls and send text from your Toggle sim card. However the local number will not be displayed when make calls or send SMS.

We are making our best efforts to incorporate this facility as soon as possible and hopefully we can make it available in a near future. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. "