Question about travelling to the 'home' areas of int'l SIMs

adam917

Can you use the ekit Global Premium SIM in the Isle of Man despite that location being the home operator of the SIM? Has anyone ever used these type of SIMs in places like that (I'm guessing they don't expect their users to need to travel to the countries the SIMs are based at)? Has there/could there be problems?

inquisitor · 01-06-2009, 10:27

Why should there be a problem? The only difference I could imagine is, that in the home network direct calling could be enabled instead of callback, but I doubt any programmer has wasted time by implementing an exception routine for such a rare case.

**MrEd** · 01-06-2009, 11:37

GeoSIM works fine on the IOM.

hkr · 01-06-2009, 11:37

Strangely though, sim4travel 's Low International Mobile Rates with SIM4travel page suggests that the card does not work on the Channel Islands & IOM. For the rest of the UK it states free* incoming.

(*free after payment of the daily usage fee)

DRNewcomb · 01-06-2009, 17:29

Mobal is an O2-UK SIM with very high rates, but in UK incoming is "free". I believe Celtrek's new sim has free incoming in Belgum as long as you use the Belgum number.

**andy** · 01-06-2009, 23:18

The vistream brands Sunsim and Solomo work fine in Germany, not using callback.

As Sunsim told me a couple of years ago: on some older phones, the profile isn't automatically selected, so when switching on put a 1 or 2 before the PIN to select home or abroad mode.

**JDekit** · 02-06-2009, 08:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam917

Can you use the ekit Global Premium SIM in the Isle of Man despite that location being the home operator of the SIM? Has anyone ever used these type of SIMs in places like that (I'm guessing they don't expect their users to need to travel to the countries the SIMs are based at)? Has there/could there be problems?

Hi Adam,

I'm the CEO of ekit. The service works the same way in the Isle of Mas as it does elsewhere. There are no issues there.

ekit's dual number service, which provide both a UK +44 number and a US +1 number, uses regular dialling in the US, and callback in all other countries.

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

John

Stu · 02-06-2009, 12:40

09 (RIP) worked in Iceland.

inquisitor · 02-06-2009, 12:45

@andy
solomo has recently abandoned their dualIMSI-technology. Now you can use the eplus-IMSI (2 + PIN), which was intended for roaming abroad only, even within Germany. Since solomo is based on vistream like SunSIM, I guess that change applies to all vistream-brands.

MATHA531 · 02-06-2009, 13:15

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Originally Posted by Stu

09 (RIP) worked in Iceland.

Yes they did; but interestingly enough they never worked in Switzerland and I could never fathom the reason why; something to do with the way they piggybacked on some swiss network which thought the calls were domestic calls or something like that!

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adam917 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 188 Join Date: 14 Sep 2008 Location: North America Country:	Question about travelling to the 'home' areas of int'l SIMs - 01-06-2009, 09:56 Can you use the ekit Global Premium SIM in the Isle of Man despite that location being the home operator of the SIM? Has anyone ever used these type of SIMs in places like that (I'm guessing they don't expect their users to need to travel to the countries the SIMs are based at)? Has there/could there be problems?

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 957 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	01-06-2009, 10:27 Why should there be a problem? The only difference I could imagine is, that in the home network direct calling could be enabled instead of callback, but I doubt any programmer has wasted time by implementing an exception routine for such a rare case. terminals: Motorola: Milestone, F3; Nokia: N95, 1208; BenQ-Siemens: S68; Huawei: E5, E1823, E1762, K3715, K3765, EM770 in Asus Eee PC 901 GO; Qualcomm Gobi 2000 in Sony VAIO VPC-Z12X9E/X postpaid: DE: O2 Blue 100 Flex; prepaid: DE: Lidl, Fonic, Tchibo, solomo pro, congstar, T-Mobile, Vodafone, otelo; CH: Swisscom Natel Easy BeFree, Sunrise go dayflat, Lebara; OK,-mobile; UK: T-Mobile, 3; NL: T-Mobile; ES: Vodafone, MÁSmovil, simyo; HU: T-Mobile; BG: MTel, Globul, vivatel, Petrol mobile; INT'L: none

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MrEd (Offline) DEALER Advanced Member Posts: 55 Join Date: 27 Nov 2005 Country:	01-06-2009, 11:37 GeoSIM works fine on the IOM. Ed GeoSIM www.globalsimcard.co.uk

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hkr (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 73 Join Date: 29 Apr 2009 Country:	01-06-2009, 11:37 Strangely though, sim4travel 's Low International Mobile Rates with SIM4travel page suggests that the card does not work on the Channel Islands & IOM. For the rest of the UK it states free* incoming. (free after payment of the daily usage fee) Postpaid:* 3x Vodafone (HU) 1x T-Mobile) formerly also Pannon Prepaid: Vodafone, Pannon, T-Mobile (HU) Optimus (PT) SamiSwoi, ERA, Orange (PL) VIP (HR) T-Mobile (AT) Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-Mobile (UK) Vodafone (DE) Data-only prepaid: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Djuice/Pannon (HU) International SIMs: UM+, Sim4Travel, TravelSim Phones: Nokia E51, E71, Samsung D880, SE P990i, Ericsson T39m -forever! , many others in the drawer. 3G modems Huawei E220, E870, EU870D, U740, Alcatel X200 VoIP: Justvoip, CallWithUs, Neophonex, fonline, Macrogate and several others for outgoing... DIDs from Macrogate, DIDww, Gradwell, Voxbone and others. FreePBX, Vigor router with inbuilt ATA, Nokia E-series phones.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,253 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	01-06-2009, 17:29 Mobal is an O2-UK SIM with very high rates, but in UK incoming is "free". I believe Celtrek's new sim has free incoming in Belgum as long as you use the Belgum number.

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andy (Offline) Moderator Prepaid President Posts: 1,964 Join Date: 10 Dec 2004 Country:	01-06-2009, 23:18 The vistream brands Sunsim and Solomo work fine in Germany, not using callback. As Sunsim told me a couple of years ago: on some older phones, the profile isn't automatically selected, so when switching on put a 1 or 2 before the PIN to select home or abroad mode.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 886 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Dubai (& Detroit) Country:	02-06-2009, 12:40 09 (RIP) worked in Iceland.

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 957 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	02-06-2009, 12:45 @andy solomo has recently abandoned their dualIMSI-technology. Now you can use the eplus-IMSI (2 + PIN), which was intended for roaming abroad only, even within Germany. Since solomo is based on vistream like SunSIM, I guess that change applies to all vistream-brands. terminals: Motorola: Milestone, F3; Nokia: N95, 1208; BenQ-Siemens: S68; Huawei: E5, E1823, E1762, K3715, K3765, EM770 in Asus Eee PC 901 GO; Qualcomm Gobi 2000 in Sony VAIO VPC-Z12X9E/X postpaid: DE: O2 Blue 100 Flex; prepaid: DE: Lidl, Fonic, Tchibo, solomo pro, congstar, T-Mobile, Vodafone, otelo; CH: Swisscom Natel Easy BeFree, Sunrise go dayflat, Lebara; OK,-mobile; UK: T-Mobile, 3; NL: T-Mobile; ES: Vodafone, MÁSmovil, simyo; HU: T-Mobile; BG: MTel, Globul, vivatel, Petrol mobile; INT'L: none