Are "international" SIMS becoming obsolete? - Page 3

Stu · 25-05-2009, 03:28

Dubai and Detroit are "sister cities." I didn't know how true it was.

hkr · 26-05-2009, 08:21

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Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

TruPhone does it with an app that logs you onto their SIP service. Once you are logged on they just route your calls via VOIP rather than forwarding to the cell.

Now that you mention TruPhone... I have long been wondering why they are not forming a nice package of their VoIP service and their international SIM (Sim4Travel).

As for UMA: thanks for the ideas everybody. Well, for me there is indeed no point in buying a US T-Mobile SIM & phone, apart from experimentation.

monkeyboy · 28-05-2009, 03:22

During my last trip, 10 days in Japan a couple of months ago, I did the Skype thing. It was great -- but only when I had a good Internet connection, obviously. That was maybe 20% of the time at best. Yes, I could have had it more if I was willing to pay for it, perhaps up to 40% of the time. But mostly I relied on my int'l roaming SIMs (Celtrek and ekit, UM+ was dead).

So Skype/VOIP is a good, even great thing, but its not ready to supplant int't roaming SIMs yet in my view...

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	25-05-2009, 03:28 Dubai and Detroit are "sister cities." I didn't know how true it was.

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monkeyboy (Offline) Member Official Member Posts: 31 Join Date: 03 Jun 2005 Country:	28-05-2009, 03:22 During my last trip, 10 days in Japan a couple of months ago, I did the Skype thing. It was great -- but only when I had a good Internet connection, obviously. That was maybe 20% of the time at best. Yes, I could have had it more if I was willing to pay for it, perhaps up to 40% of the time. But mostly I relied on my int'l roaming SIMs (Celtrek and ekit, UM+ was dead). So Skype/VOIP is a good, even great thing, but its not ready to supplant int't roaming SIMs yet in my view...