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MATHA531 · 17-11-2005, 15:09

I do agree that riiing has changed what I do when touring too...two years ago I did a tour through Scandanavia with 3 or 4 day stops in Norway, Sweden and Denmark and didn't both with local sims. I relied on my T Mobile US roaming with its obnoxeous 99?/minute rounded up for both making and receiving calls and while I didn't get all that many calls nor make all that many calls, judt didn't feel it worth the time to start fooling with Swedish, Norwegian and Danish prepaids.

Riiing has been very very good to me. I think I related my trip through Eastern Europe this past June where it functioned flawlessly in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Austria. Incoming calls were all as clear as a mobile can be and using callbackworld and enlinea I had no difficulty with the outgoing calls. Foolishly I set up my voicemail from riiing using riiing and so the ?15 was reduced to ?12 and change but since then have sent one sms to keep the account active within the 9 month restriction but for the rest callbackworld and enlinea for outgoing.

Now there were admited problems with cbw and enlinea in July but my latest experience with cbw and enlinea was in August in the UK where it functioned almost perfectly.

That being said, I am always on the lookout for other cards and if this card include Mexico, so much the better although of course I won't get the US 12? rate on enlinea for the Liechtenstein mobile.

Incidentally, recently the riiing voicemail system is no longer giving the annoucement in German and English that the subscriber is not available if the phone is off. Calls seem to be going right into riiing voicemail with the phone off as I know somebody on this board had complained bitterly about that and considered riiing voice mail unusable...this seems to be working okay.

My next European tour is in January to Germany (have a local sim), Italy (no local sim), Switzerland (no local sim), Paris (Orange FR yes) and finally to London (several local sims)....will be in London for a week visiting friends at the end and I do prefer the British local sims (thanks to Andy for giving me suggestions to undercut even riiing and cbw for outgoing) so we'll see.

But I have this technology sickness too that likes to collect sims and be able to have all sorts of phone numbers..itis a sickness I know but what the heck....

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	17-11-2005, 15:09 I do agree that riiing has changed what I do when touring too...two years ago I did a tour through Scandanavia with 3 or 4 day stops in Norway, Sweden and Denmark and didn't both with local sims. I relied on my T Mobile US roaming with its obnoxeous 99?/minute rounded up for both making and receiving calls and while I didn't get all that many calls nor make all that many calls, judt didn't feel it worth the time to start fooling with Swedish, Norwegian and Danish prepaids. Riiing has been very very good to me. I think I related my trip through Eastern Europe this past June where it functioned flawlessly in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Austria. Incoming calls were all as clear as a mobile can be and using callbackworld and enlinea I had no difficulty with the outgoing calls. Foolishly I set up my voicemail from riiing using riiing and so the ?15 was reduced to ?12 and change but since then have sent one sms to keep the account active within the 9 month restriction but for the rest callbackworld and enlinea for outgoing. Now there were admited problems with cbw and enlinea in July but my latest experience with cbw and enlinea was in August in the UK where it functioned almost perfectly. That being said, I am always on the lookout for other cards and if this card include Mexico, so much the better although of course I won't get the US 12? rate on enlinea for the Liechtenstein mobile. Incidentally, recently the riiing voicemail system is no longer giving the annoucement in German and English that the subscriber is not available if the phone is off. Calls seem to be going right into riiing voicemail with the phone off as I know somebody on this board had complained bitterly about that and considered riiing voice mail unusable...this seems to be working okay. My next European tour is in January to Germany (have a local sim), Italy (no local sim), Switzerland (no local sim), Paris (Orange FR yes) and finally to London (several local sims)....will be in London for a week visiting friends at the end and I do prefer the British local sims (thanks to Andy for giving me suggestions to undercut even riiing and cbw for outgoing) so we'll see. But I have this technology sickness too that likes to collect sims and be able to have all sorts of phone numbers..itis a sickness I know but what the heck....