Piranha Mobile Sim Card

[gkeeper]

Originally Posted by fsotirop

most simcards (travelsim, camel, xxsim, airbalticcard etc) for EU roaming charge 0.39eurocents/mb billing per 1kb ... not 40british-pence per mb as you mention

they also have data bundles availiable.

0.39 Euro cents or £0.40 still mathematically more expensive and bundles are use it or lose it. its all about how much you use and as i have already pointed out the standard email is 50kb-75kb. I am happy leaving my data on knowing that worst case it will costs me £0.10 or £0.20 per Mb when travailing in the EU. and much cheaper outside of EU than the companies you have mentioned, but everyone to his own. My original point was they seem to be getting some very good deals in and outside of EU.

[fsotirop]

Originally Posted by gkeeper

0.39 Euro cents or £0.40 still mathematically more expensive and bundles are use it or lose it. its all about how much you use and as i have already pointed out the standard email is 50kb-75kb. I am happy leaving my data on knowing that worst case it will costs me £0.10 or £0.20 per Mb when travailing in the EU. and much cheaper outside of EU than the companies you have mentioned, but everyone to his own. My original point was they seem to be getting some very good deals in and outside of EU.

for EU data roaming (including Turkey, Switzerland and Albania) the best current solution is europasim (vodafone italy sim), 500mb/day for 3euro.
even if if you exceed the 500mb you aren't charged, you simply get lower browsing speed.

except the 500mb, you also get 25min. of outgoing calls & 25min. for incoming calls, plus SMS.

[gkeeper]

Originally Posted by fsotirop

for EU data roaming (including Turkey, Switzerland and Albania) the best current solution is europasim (vodafone italy sim), 500mb/day for 3euro.
even if if you exceed the 500mb you aren't charged, you simply get lower browsing speed.

except the 500mb, you also get 25min. of outgoing calls & 25min. for incoming calls, plus SMS.

Agreed Europasim Card is best solution for Europe. Unfortunately most of my travel is outside of the EU.

[Sophia]

For Canada I don't think you can do much better than Piranha. In fact somebody in my family uses it now as their main cell phone. Reason is the top up requirement (none) compared to the $100 top up per year of most Canadian cell providers.

Calls are very reasonably priced, $0.22 per minute Canada wide (again, most Canadian prepaid providers easily ask twice that).
Text $0.15 (Canadian providers: $0.50 per text)
Data is $0.37 per MB. If you don't want a data add-on with a fixed amount, the only prepaid provider Telus offers ppu data of $2.00 per MB. Granted, that is not in 100kb increments like Piranha.

I can't fault Piranha in any way though and of all the prepaid international SIMs I tried, it's the only one I kept. For the 2 countries I frequent regularly (USA and NL), I bought a local SIM (T-Mobile and Simyo, respectively) and in Canada I use Koodo prepaid.

But for extremely light users such as said relative, Piranha is actually a good local alternative here!

[Bossman]

I hope she has a backup. Piranha may be all good for now. However, from experience, a lot of these companies come and go. As I posted in another thread, a year ago when I was Lagos, Nigeria, Piranha was useless. If it finally connects to the network, it shows emergency calls only. Thank God for my Ekit sim. I still have Piranha, and will give it another shot when I am back in Nigeria next month. At least to try to use up my credit.

If Piranha works for you, good then. However, always have a backup plan.

Originally Posted by Sophia

In fact somebody in my family uses it now as their main cell phone.

[Sophia]

Oh I agree with you Bossman. NEVER put more than the minimum top up amount on any of those cards, believe me I learned that the hard way (find my Celltrek / Nexus One drama thread right here in these forums)

[peterdoo]

Originally Posted by gkeeper

0.39 Euro cents or £0.40 still mathematically more expensive and bundles are use it or lose it. its all about how much you use and as i have already pointed out the standard email is 50kb-75kb. I am happy leaving my data on knowing that worst case it will costs me £0.10 or £0.20 per Mb when travailing in the EU. and much cheaper outside of EU than the companies you have mentioned, but everyone to his own. My original point was they seem to be getting some very good deals in and outside of EU.

When going to a hotel with WiFi I normally use it as well as other free WiFi spots available (airports, shopping malls,...). With mobile data switched on constantly, this causes me 10 or more reconnects a day (room->breakfast & return, entering/leaving hotel...). Each connection change from mobile data to WiFi terminates a charging block. With charging blocks of 100kB this causes me 1 MB of data to be charged even if no data has been transfered in the sessions. Not really a problem for me in the EU with today's low per MB prices.

[Sophia]

I do however think they might benefit from a spell checker, just received this trust inspiring mail:

Have you joind Piranha Mobile on facebook and twitter

Hi Sophia

We are asking all our users to visit and Like our facebook and follow us on twitter.

We are regualy posting news and information relateing to Piranha Mobile and think you will benfit from linking to us.

Take a momment to use the links at the top of this email to join us.

Thanks in advance



Piranha Mobile Admin Team

[PSIM]

Originally Posted by Sophia

I do however think they might benefit from a spell checker, just received this trust inspiring mail:

Quite right, staff should have used spell check, draft was sent out in error

PSIM

[Sophia]

Hahaha! Actually it gave me a good giggle, it was like reading one of those "if you can read this" jokes.

All jokes aside I do like Piranha and it's comforting to see you got in this thread on the same day