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![]() Hi bbob,
Thanks for your time in reviewing Yackie's product, I just wanted to clarify some issues here. 1) It's not necessarily fair to compare GSM and VOIP (look at the price difference between fixed line and mobile) To begin with, the $0.29 incoming fee does not provide Yackie with any revenue. It was a special case where it was more important to provide you with good service than make money. If Yackie was to only charge you $0.29 + a voip call then it wouldn't make commercial sense (look at what's happening around us in this market, i.e. some of the IOM products being shutdown). 2) Mexico incoming DID costs $1.54 due to the surcharge imposed on roaming customers there. "Example Germany Incoming =free or 0.29 through DID number Calling France from Germany is $ 0.59 to fixed and mobile Making a yacki voip call to france is $ 0.024 for fixed line and 0.271 to mobile. So I would think the rate would be $0.29 + $0.024 / 0.271 = $0.314 / $ 0.561" 3) The Germany example is $0.56 for mobile, (sounds like a lot in USD) which is €0.39, lower than the new EU maximum rates. Calling UK from austraila is $ 0.49 to fixed and mobile 4) €0.34 to the UK from australia roaming is a bargain in my opinion. "Because of the many free incoming countries I will probably use the sim in combination with pbxes and voicetrading and setup my own did forward and callback. Using this solution forwarded DID calls will only cost me euro 0.114 / $ 0.16 per minute." I would like to explain here. The cost of running a GSM worldwide roaming network is very high. All we need for VOIP is a PC with some software and an internet connection. This is not the case for GSM. The infrastructure and switching equipment required is very expensive (€100.000 is pocket change in this world) Apart from that, you need interconnect and roaming agreements and quality SS7 termination worldwide. By using your international prepaid GSM phone for your own callback, you make it impossible for your operator to make any money, which is not sustainable long term. I can only ask that anyone reading this who uses international prepaid roaming SIMs for their own callback solutions remember that if everyone were to do so, their operator would not survive. We strive to provide high-quality worldwide roaming in 190 countries at low cost. We welcome any suggestions as to how we could improve our service. Many thanks, Yackie Tech |
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(I use them w. my U.S. T-Mobile phone when in many countries where I pay only 29 cents for incoming calls but would have to pay $1 to almost $2 to call back to the U.S. and almost as much to make local calls where I am roaming. W. Enlinea I pay 29 +5 cents for outgoing. This plan was discontinued 3 or 4 years ago for new users.) ...mike A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year. |
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![]() Hi Yackie Tech:
Thanks for your response...how can you improve the service...well one thing that has to be done is to add Switzerland as a roaming partner which has always been a big negative of O9 with whom you have some sort of a relationship...... |
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![]() Just to clarify Mike's post....he is grandfathered on T Mobile USA's original international roaming plan which they discontinued when they started their world class roaming program although from what I've read, it is becoming somewhat more difficult to get info from T Mobile US about just which operators charges what to roam internationally as rates on this plan vary even by roaming partner.
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![]() I'm not sure this was the issue with the Isle of Man fiasco....when I was checking out rates on cbw and enlinea, I noted that rates to use their services from UK mobiles were extremely high and it simply wasn't economical to use them (that is CBW and Enlinea) to call out on an Isle of Man sim card. Likewise, it is not economical to call out on a UM+ card using cbw and/or enlinea as rates are in the vicinity of $0.50/minute for UK mobiles as opposed to $0.29 to German and French mobiles.
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![]() Well, perhaps their tariffs for UK mobiles are a little too opportunistic. There are others that have UK within a cent or two of French and German mobiles.
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![]() Hi Yackie
You mentioned "We will release one new Option for the US market and the South americain market ( specialy Mexico, Argentina, USS and Canada )" It would be great if you could bring roaming charges lower than what they are now - can you give us a glimpse on what the new charges will be for inbound/outbound calls in US/Canada/Mexico and when do you anticipate to roll out this service? |
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International prepaid callback roaming isn't really a free lunch, most of the operators providing these services are struggling due to the sheer cost of maintaining the mobile network, then people like us come along and say hey, it's expensive to call the numbers, but still want free incoming when the operators are making hardly any money. Let me elaborate, the SMS charges are very high in a roaming scenario, let's suppose $0.30 per message, you make a call and it's busy, so you call back in 5 minutes, operator has fees of $0.60 to cover along with the callback charge from the first call, say $0.20. .. so operator has fees of $0.80 to cover when you pick up, you talk for 2 minutes and pay $1.00, operator makes 20c. Then people think, hey, I paid $1 for a 2 minute call, how expensive, let's use callback, and so the operator doesn't even get his 20c. More power to Yackie for providing a professional and value packed service with local DID ranges in scores of countries with good quality voice and good support |
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We are in test process since few weeks for releasing the US SIM card, as we are also MVNO in USA The goal is 0.10 $ in USA Nationwide call, on peack and off peack DATA roaming availlable Call to canada, mexico, argentina etc etc around 0.12/0.15 $ Call to most international countries around 0.15 to 0.25 $ and call from the Canada to the US and world around 0.20/0.25 $ And call from the South american countries to the USA an the world from 0.20 to 0.69$ Off course same fonctions than the World Card ( who will be delivered bundleled for the world travelers to the US( noth and South and canada ), this mean, DID can be attached and forwarded both on SIP / World SIm / US Sim etc etc and few others features who will be released in few days Sound Good? Sent from my Iphone with my Paytoo Mobile Sim Wallet |
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