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[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by Bossman

That's very impressive! Majority of those minutes are probably incoming minutes which are not charged to you but the caller. For calling back to the USA, UM via CBW cannot be beat. I would have to think most of your outgoing calls were back to the USA. Since it will definitely cost a whole lot more to call anywhere else.

Having said that, hopefully the people that called you used a calling card with good rates.

Actually like I said O9 with enlinea beats UM with CBW 10? to 14?...

Actually I was very pleasantly surprised to see that calls using CBW to European landlines are not that terribly expensive and in many cases even cheaper than using a local sim...example according to web site a call from Liechtenstein to a French landline is $0.142/minute with the usual 6 second billing interval...calls to local French numbers using a French sim in France are much more expensive...of course it is a lot simpler to simply dial the French number minus the lead 0 than to endure the double callback and have to dial 33 0 whatever (just kidding!)....

Using CBW from any western European country to Australian landline $0.149/minute US...making UM with CBW a good deal for Australians as Australia is a UM no charge for roaming country.....

Don't overlook these big advantages of CBW...

[Bossman]

That's good to know that 09 even has better rates.

That's true regarding CBW with UM to European landlines. I made a few calls to UK land lines with my UM number using CBW on a recent Caribbean cruise. I was expecting to see like $0.50/min when I checked online. To my surprise it was just $0.14/min. I had to look at the rate table just to verify that was the actual rate.

On a side note, compared to most of the other international sims, it seems like UM offers free incoming calls in quite a few caribbean countries.

[andy]

Originally Posted by Bossman

That's good to know that 09 even has better rates.

That's true regarding CBW with UM to European landlines. I made a few calls to UK land lines with my UM number using CBW on a recent Caribbean cruise. I was expecting to see like $0.50/min when I checked online. To my surprise it was just $0.14/min. I had to look at the rate table just to verify that was the actual rate.

You shouldn't be too surprised that they are that cheap; there are about 40 or 50 countries that have landlines roughly as cheap as US landlines with many providers. Don't forget too that using callback from a landline where you are staying will be even cheaper, like from 8c CBW, 6c Enlinea, 4c Voipfone or Mywebcalls.

[jhanlon]

Originally Posted by Bossman

That's very impressive! Majority of those minutes are probably incoming minutes which are not charged to you but the caller.

Actually, of the 109.1 minutes, only 4.6 were incoming calls. Calls within Europe were 14 cents per minute as were the calls to the USA.

(Side note: The reason that incoming calls were so little is that the CBW PIN2DEST did not work until Brian at CBW intervened.)

Jim Hanlon

[christophermikels]

If you are a frequent traveler then the best phone service for you is VoIP. And avail of unlimited monthly calls and lower call rates.