River Cruise... need help with phone!

MATHA531 · 06-05-2007, 00:42

The chief disadvantages of o9 are

1. no voicemail provisions

2. no coverage in Switzerland.

3. No text messaging.

UM, as noted, has worked very well for incoming for me throughout all of Europe. Callbackworld has worked pretty well but has sporadically had problems. Using United Mobile to call the USA without callbackworld is expensive but less so than most roaning situations that exist today. Biggest problem with UM is the incoming calls on most long distance carriers in the USA are asininely high (you have to check out rates to Liechtenstein mobiles) with the exception being the $1/month AT&T plan noted above (but as with all these rates, I suppose if too many people find out they will raise the rates as so many of the US ld carriers have done to rates to Liechtenstein mobiles with the final culmination being the 100% increases in rates using callbackworld which occurred a scant three weeks ago).

On this site, you can read up in the operators sections on the various international sims and by going to the web sites, you can check out incoming rates to the various countries you will be going through. The international sims use mobile phone numbers in Liechtenstein (United Mobile), Iceland (o9), the Isle of Man (which is really a UK number and some of the voip operators have very good rates to them) and Estonia. Also I do agree that vodafone passport might be a suggestion but getting it started and up and running from the USA might be a problem.

And as noted, if the eu communications people have their way, it might be (but don't hold your breath for this summer) that sooner or later roaming in Europe on any carrier will be the same as roaming is in the USA.

Ultimately, as noted, the sites to check out for rates are www.callbackworld.com, www.voicestick.com and www.kall8.com. All can give you reasonably cheap US numbers to reach various European sims but rates can vary by country of the sim.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	06-05-2007, 00:42 The chief disadvantages of o9 are 1. no voicemail provisions 2. no coverage in Switzerland. 3. No text messaging. UM, as noted, has worked very well for incoming for me throughout all of Europe. Callbackworld has worked pretty well but has sporadically had problems. Using United Mobile to call the USA without callbackworld is expensive but less so than most roaning situations that exist today. Biggest problem with UM is the incoming calls on most long distance carriers in the USA are asininely high (you have to check out rates to Liechtenstein mobiles) with the exception being the $1/month AT&T plan noted above (but as with all these rates, I suppose if too many people find out they will raise the rates as so many of the US ld carriers have done to rates to Liechtenstein mobiles with the final culmination being the 100% increases in rates using callbackworld which occurred a scant three weeks ago). On this site, you can read up in the operators sections on the various international sims and by going to the web sites, you can check out incoming rates to the various countries you will be going through. The international sims use mobile phone numbers in Liechtenstein (United Mobile), Iceland (o9), the Isle of Man (which is really a UK number and some of the voip operators have very good rates to them) and Estonia. Also I do agree that vodafone passport might be a suggestion but getting it started and up and running from the USA might be a problem. And as noted, if the eu communications people have their way, it might be (but don't hold your breath for this summer) that sooner or later roaming in Europe on any carrier will be the same as roaming is in the USA. Ultimately, as noted, the sites to check out for rates are www.callbackworld.com, www.voicestick.com and www.kall8.com. All can give you reasonably cheap US numbers to reach various European sims but rates can vary by country of the sim.