My experience with Onesimcard.
 

Thank you rfranzq, I'm glad you have enjoyed using OneSimCard. It's always great to hear feedback from customers, both the positives and negatives of their user experience. If I can help with any support down the road just let me know.

James

I received my OneSimCard in the mail yesterday and activated it online. I put it in my old K700i phone, which is a triband (800, 1800 and 1900) but so far, it cannot find any networks. My Nexus One which I think is a quadband phone, has the Truphone Local Anytime and that one finds Rogers easily. Not sure it is because we are in rural Canada, I guess the best way to find out is try and pry loose the plastic case and swap cards :) I'll keep everybody informed :D Boy, this playing with sims is getting fun :D

Hi Sophia,

You will likely need to use the GSM 850 band if you are in a rural area. GSM 1900 is primarily for urban areas. Let us know how it works in your Nexus One.

Thanks,
James

Looking forward to updates.
 

Well, the next step is to get a dual SIM phone. <g>

I know you have [at least] two international SIMs now. This will give you some options [and backup] that one card could not have. Also, 'one will be better' than the other in various situations and you will at least know you are saving some money in different situations--even if it is still too much or not much saved.

I got 2 sims, I ordered the Truphone after Celtrek went belly up, and then I traded the Celtrek sim for the OneSimCard because I had nothing to lose anyway :) That is enough, one can be used by my hubby and the other by myself, both will do fine.

And I don't think I can quite get away with buying yet another phone, after spending $650 on the Nexus One, haha. :D

Has someone found a reliable voip carrier that offers good rates to call the onesimcard estonian number ?

Good deal! and voicemail update
 

Best $0.0 you ever spent! [Loonie or greenback]

And here is some good news of the last month or so: And here is the bad news: At least in Canada you will not spend half your free balance setting up voicemail. I just had an opportunity to send the SIM with someone on a trip and asked that they set up voicemail on it.
And you can always use SMS.

common local and personal access number questions.
 

1. How much is a personal access number both US and Canada]? Is there a choice of area codes or are they pretty limited [all in Massachusetts]?

2. I guess I know the answer to this one. From the US one can call the toll free access number or the local access number [and a personal access number] all for the same 35c/min. I know the price/cost difference is tiny [no more than 2 cents perhaps?]. Is there no way to have some price difference show itself? Not worth the effort? I know I would try to save some cents here of there [that is, choose to use a local access number over the toll free one].
Thanks for being here.

Several years ago I used a International roaming card. It was a Hop card. It went bankrupt and I lost over $100.00 of credit. Lesson learned. Now I use a local sim card. When I saw the .35 cents for a personal access number it reminded me of Hop. I have a 866 number that I can send to any sim card in the world. It is $2.00 a month and .6 cents a minute to call anywhere in Europe. What a huge profit for onesim. I have the number on my business card. So anyone can call me if they need to get a hold of me. All I have to do is go online an redirect the number to the sim I am using. Very simple and efficient. There are many companies that do this, and they have toll free numbers in many countries. I am through with International sims. They are to expensive,and the local sims in the EU are cheap now for roaming.

Do you mean it costs 6 cents/min to forward to a mobile in Europe or landline only?

Problem solved :D Today I went to town, and reception was flawless there, thanks also for the technical help from Axel F of the support team trying to sort this problem :)

1. The cost varies based on how long you subscribe to the personal second number ($1.67-$4.99/mo for local U.S. or toll free U.S./Canada; $4.99-$8.99 for local Canada). There are a number of area codes available in the U.S. and we currently offer three area codes in Canada (Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver).

2. Yes it is 35c/min billed to the received whether you use a common or personal access number. One advantage of the personal access number is that there is no prompt so you can use it for call forwarding from your domestic cell, office, etc.

Yes I do. only .6cents for Russia I think it is .13 cents.

Can you explain which company you use to forward the Did number for that price?

Quote 1. The cost varies based on how long you subscribe to the personal second number ($1.67-$4.99/mo for local U.S. or toll free U.S./Canada; $4.99-$8.99 for local Canada). There are a number of area codes available in the U.S. and we currently offer three area codes in Canada (Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver).

2. Yes it is 35c/min billed to the received whether you use a common or personal access number. One advantage of the personal access number is that there is no prompt so you can use it for call forwarding from your domestic cell, office, et Quote

I use Kall8.com. They forward to any phone you use. There are several others that are out there. I just happened to think this one was the best for my situation.

I understand making a profit, but 5.00-9.00 a month plus 35 cents/min is way to much.
I can use my 866 number for call forwarding from my cell phone as well. I get a load of features with the number. Voice Mail & Fax Mailbox,Call Tracking Tools,Call Blocking,
Custom Call Forwarding,Conference Calling,and Virtual Calling Card. This is what I get for 2.00 a month. It is well worth it to me.

Would it work with Google Voice? I know they forward to a 403 (Calgary) number...

Kall8 do charge more for forwarding to mobile for most countries. For example to a UK mobile it's 38c/min, France is 37c/min, Mexico 46c/min.

Kall8 International Rates

See the note at the top: "Special Services includes, but is not limited to, cellular and audiotext services". So a rate marked "France (Special Services)" is to a French mobile.

(I use localphone, incoming numbers in various countries cheap, voip account, forwarding to Mex mobile for 8.8c/min, UK mobile 12-25c/min, France mobile 11c/min).

Rob

(edit) for Estonia mobile, Kall8 is 52c/min, Localphone is 22-34c/min depending on the number - what is the number range for a OneSimCard card? The big advantage with a VOIP account that forwards when not connected to VOIP (like Localphone does) is that I only pay for forwards when out of range of wi-fi.

I think the prefix they are using is the +372531
Localphone charges 28,8 eurocents/min to that range

Have you used Localphone to forward successfully to an estonia mobile,
as many voip companies don't forward to Estonian numbers.

No I haven't tried. I don't have any (working!) international sims now.

I mainly use them to forward to Mexico mobile when out of range of wi-fi.

At 29c/min they're not a very good deal for forwarding to OneSimCard anyway, there are probably cheaper around (but not Kall8 ).

Actually, you'll be lucky to find any forwarding service to these Estonian numbers that is less than $0.29. Most of them plainly just do not connect and some of them even state so on their website. And those that will connect to it are outrageously high. I'd be suspicious of any that post a too good to be true rate for forwarding to these numbers. It likely will not connect most of the time.

I had international sim card with an Estonian number briefly last year, and I used Rebtel to forward to it. The rate was about $0.29 I think.

I tend to agree. I have used VoiceStick.com, in the past, to do this from the U.S. to a pre-paid SIM.
Now, I often manage to make use of T-Mobile U.S. ability to make free calls back to U.S. if you have a wifi connection. That, and the ability to get/send email on my BB for 67 cents/day often means I don't need a pre-paid.
As many have discovered, many LD carriers refused to carry calls to high priced numbers like +372 mobile and formerly to United Mobile in Lichtenstein. I wouldn't dare have business contacts or friends spend lots of $ to call me. I always make sure they can get me by using my regular number - which then gets forwarded.
Once Google Voice initiates forwarding to intl. numbers - it will make things easy. GV has all kinds of advanced features. Numbers are free. You can use them to dial overseas, now, just not fwd.

...mike

Free voicemail
 

UPDATE: There's no longer a need to make an international call to set up a voicemail password or listen to messages. We just added a new feature where you can now listen to voicemail online by logging in to your account and clicking on the Voicemail link. There, you can also set voicemail to be emailed to you as an audio file and change passwords or other settings.

I would love to hear more suggestions from customers on ways we can improve our service.

Thanks!

Something wrong?
 

When i click on the voicemail link in my account i end up in my 'voicemail cabinet' in Russian instead of English. Onesimcard, how can i change this into English?

No problems reported
 

That is likely a font-related issue where you have something installed on your computer that is making it display in Russian instead of English. The system is designed to support both languages. I will speak with our techs to see if I can provide more information and post a reply back here.

@Onesimcard: The language problem is fixed. My voicemail settings are in English again. Thank you for solving this matter.

Thanks for confirming, I'm glad everything is working well. Feel free to post any more feedback here.

Celtrek
 

Do I understanding, from an earlier post here, that OneSimcard will exchange Celtrek SIMs just as they do with UM SIMs?

You're in luck!
 

Here is their page:
Celtrek Global Roaming Inc. SIM card | Free SIM Replacement Program
It is about the best value you are going to get these days.

They give you $10 credit with it, not a bad deal. I got mine about a month ago, and so far I've been happy with OneSimCard.

Celtrek SIM card replacement
 

Thanks rfranz & Sofia for beating me to it - you two are fast :D

Monkeyboy, follow the link from rfranz, fill out the form and mail us your deceased Celtrek SIM. We will ship you a free OneSimCard SIM with $10 balance once we receive it.

Are there any other international SIM card brands that people would want to trade in for a free OneSimCard? We may open this replacement program up to all other global SIM cards for anyone who wants to make the switch. Any feedback is appreciated.

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Trading in International SIM for Free OneSimCard
 

I have the Telestial Passport Global SIM card. It worked ok. I used it in Europe & Africa. It was nice to have free incoming calls in Europe. However, in Africa, I couldn't the ringback to work in Mozambique. I was frustrated because I was stuck and couldn't make any outgoing calls.

I was doing some research on the OneSimCard and came across this forum.

I'd love to send you my Telestial SIM card for a free OneSimCard to give it a try. :clap: Thanks.

For those who occasionally have ring back issues in other countries with their EKIT sim, there are other ways to get the ring back to work if you have problems. That's in addition to using the *126*......# code.

I am not sure this still works, but it helped me once in a country where ring back failed.

I discovered that the only way to make an outbound call was to send a text to "1234" with the contents of the text message containing the callback phone number string: *102*country code Number# and then waiting for a callback. IE: text

*102*1 858 555 1234# and send this as a text message to 1234. No charge for the text.

I am quite certain that the mods do not want me to provide an answer to your question, but hopefully by calling our customer service department they can help you with your request. Thank you for your interest.

OneSimCard unreliable in Egypt
 

We used Onesimcard in Egypt and found it frequently unreliable. After dialing either a US or Egypt phone number, we sometimes got a call back ring, but we would wait 10-15 minutes for the call to go through, but it never did. Other times calls did go through, but probably 75% of the time we couldn't complete calls. Texting worked fine. Next time I'll get international service on my phone. Better to pay more and have reliability.

PM me details
 

Please PM me your account email address and phone model used so we can investigate and report back. Thank you.

I ordered one of these under the United Mobile replacement program. No risk there. My only hesitation about adding funds is that the funds apparently expire after 10 months and the minimum recharge amount is $25. After two years, the number itself is lost. If you don't travel that much, you could be leaving a lot of money on the table just to keep the card active.

Grampa, congrats on taking advantage of the United Mobile replacement program. Your balance will expire 10 months from the last recharge, but it will keep rolling over as long as you add the minimum amount at least once every 10 months. There's no need to add a lot of airtime in advance, you can just set up auto-recharge.

If your balance does expire, you can always add funds later when you are ready to travel. The phone number and SIM itself will never expire as long as you make or receive at least one call every two years. If you don't plan on traveling for the next 2 years, just call yourself once before it expires to get a new 2 year window.