09 Iceland

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by RTuesday

When I ordered from 09 direct (see start of this thread) the order got passed on to Orate some weeks later. Don't know if it's still the same, but given the lack of changes on the 09 site I would expect so.

With their near complete lack of support, lack of SMS, and dropping of countries (e.g. Mexico) without notice (not even updating the country list afterwards), I wouldn't recommend 09 to anybody.

....except for the fact that for me, and I just used them the last couple of days in France and the UK, I pay 10¢/minute to call the USA using enlinea so I put up with all the other problems (of course I've had the card for a while)...

Incidentally, just recently unless I am mistaken, when I called for a balance it was given to me in Euro and I believe, but don't hold me to this, it was given at one time in USD.

[RTuesday]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

....except for the fact that for me, and I just used them the last couple of days in France and the UK, I pay 10¢/minute to call the USA using enlinea so I put up with all the other problems (of course I've had the card for a while)...

I was using the card fine that way last year from Mexico (it's the only country I brought the card for), and it was a great deal. They've now dropped Mexico without warning, so for me it's useless.

That's a problem with a lot of these cards, even if they manage to stay in business their changes might make the card unusable (another example would be the large number of surcharged countries added to gt-sim).

[Bossman]

I know...nothing is guaranteed! Yackie doubled the cost of incoming calls from $0.24 to $0.49 in almost every country before their sim was even fully functional. Outgoing call sosts also increased in most of the countries too. There are so many of them now, so there is really no telling which one will stay in business.I know one thing...not all of them will survive.

Originally Posted by RTuesday

That's a problem with a lot of these cards, even if they manage to stay in business their changes might make the card unusable (another example would be the large number of surcharged countries added to gt-sim).

[MATHA531]

...let's though keep our fingers crossed...United Mobile has been very stable over the past couple of years as has callbackworld (I know but it has functioned well about 75 to 80% of the time and seems to be functioning very well right now)

But sometime in the next couple of months, there is a good possibility lots of good rates may be available especially in Europe thanks to eu pressure.

[dg7feq]

Hi Guys,
did anyone of you recently use the 09 card in Mexico?
Just got a call from my boss that I need to fly over there on Thursday.

Our company phone provider charges 2.55 Euro out and 1.55 Euro inbound there..... geez.

Chris

[DRNewcomb]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

Hi Guys,
did anyone of you recently use the 09 card in Mexico?

How "recent" is "recent"?

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

How "recent" is "recent"?

As short ago as possible

[DRNewcomb]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

As short ago as possible

I was there in November and my 09 card worked fine with "free" incoming calls. Since then I've heard that their may have been some change in how it works.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

I was there in November and my 09 card worked fine with "free" incoming calls. Since then I've heard that their may have been some change in how it works.

Thanks for your info.
I'll be there from friday. I'll post my experiances here for sure. Especially in combination with CBW.

Chris

[prion]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

Thanks for your info.
I'll be there from friday. I'll post my experiances here for sure. Especially in combination with CBW.

Chris

I would advice you to take your globalsim also just in case.....