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easyroam- · **Bluefire / wire9 / Awayphone -** 25-10-2008, 19:32

The reason that your bluefire wireless sim card did not work, and this also affects go-globalsim and awayphone. basically any sim card with a +4478722 number.

The system used to interrogate the ring-back is called "ussd" Unstructured Supplementary Service Data.
This is used by all the travel sim card networks to make outbound calls.

Wire9. who are the network operator for bluefire wireless only use "ussd". They don't use sms/text message call-back on there network.

They also have sms/text message problems in the UK. None of the major UK networks except there text messages. So if your a UK user. NO SMS SERVICE!

When your travelling in France, USA, south Africa, and most of Asia, south America ect, ect. you will not be able to make any outbound calls as the operators in these countries don't use "ussd".

The main operators like ourselves, Easyroam, Travelsim, United mobile. All have a fall-back system. we use sms/text message. When you dial your number and make the call. Your phone will send a message via "ussd"
If there is no response back. your phone will then send a sms/text message with the number you dialled.

You will notice in some countries like France that the call-back takes longer. This is because a sms/text message was sent and this takes longer to be sent and be received by the home network.

If your main problem was not able to receive inbound calls. This means that wire9 (bluefire wireless) don't have a roaming agreement in those countries.

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easyroam- (Offline) DEALER Prepaid Fan Posts: 108 Join Date: 01 Oct 2007 Country:	Bluefire / wire9 / Awayphone - 25-10-2008, 19:32 The reason that your bluefire wireless sim card did not work, and this also affects go-globalsim and awayphone. basically any sim card with a +4478722 number. The system used to interrogate the ring-back is called "ussd" Unstructured Supplementary Service Data. This is used by all the travel sim card networks to make outbound calls. Wire9. who are the network operator for bluefire wireless only use "ussd". They don't use sms/text message call-back on there network. They also have sms/text message problems in the UK. None of the major UK networks except there text messages. So if your a UK user. NO SMS SERVICE! When your travelling in France, USA, south Africa, and most of Asia, south America ect, ect. you will not be able to make any outbound calls as the operators in these countries don't use "ussd". The main operators like ourselves, Easyroam, Travelsim, United mobile. All have a fall-back system. we use sms/text message. When you dial your number and make the call. Your phone will send a message via "ussd" If there is no response back. your phone will then send a sms/text message with the number you dialled. You will notice in some countries like France that the call-back takes longer. This is because a sms/text message was sent and this takes longer to be sent and be received by the home network. If your main problem was not able to receive inbound calls. This means that wire9 (bluefire wireless) don't have a roaming agreement in those countries. .