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The great Dictator!
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10-09-2008, 14:36
A guy on an Italian forum just bought it and this is what he received by mail:
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The Italian number is from Abbiategrasso town, district of Milan, and it's owned by Eutelia which is a landline and Voip provider which has some international calls offers. Deceased Prepaids: CZ: Oskar, Eurotel; SK: Orange; DE: E-Plus, Aldi, Simyo; GE: Geocell; AM: Armentel; PL: Heyah, Plus; LT: Tele2; LV: Amigo; EE: Elisa; UA: Kyivstar; NZ: Vodafone; INT: UM, UM+, ICQSim. GSM/3G Phones: Nokia Lumia 630 dual sim |
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10-09-2008, 15:39
Now I'm wondering if there may be two distinct but possibly linked products being described here, and the email reply from the firm to bbob isn't being illuminating about what's available right now
If I'm in the UK and attach this to a UK SIM card, what is it going to do? Is it a second ID which makes it's own outgoing calls? Is it a callthrough system using my existing SIM and automatically going to Yackie's access numbers? If so, it's hardly an innovation that will make calling cards and other callthroughs redundant, as they claim. Until about September last year, some UK contracts were able to call plenty of foreign destinations via several series of access numbers that required no account or further payment. And there are still plenty which have landline access numbers and the customer tops up their account, where the CLI of the phone is recognised automatically. And if the networks gradually implement sanctions on these, this would be probably affected too. |
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10-09-2008, 18:02
I think you'll find it's call through and not call back.
This means that the call is interrupted and prevented from going the route that the operator specifies, dials instead a local access number and places the international leg at Yackie's rates. This would also be why their product only works in the N American dialing code area. Capn |
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10-09-2008, 22:54
Capn, this is what I had gueesed before.
Like Andy says in other countries there are paid access number you can call using your fixed phone. The numbers have a rate of say 5 eurocent, 10, 20 eurocents and depending on the access number you can call different destinations. Your normal carrier will bill you for calling to these number. In Holland typically these are 09xx numbers. My idee remains yackie offer an automatic call through and you use your local sim to call a free access number. You have to call a local number to authenticate your phone so the systems knows your caller id or a number that the yackie card sents when making a call. The problem with these numbers is that some carriers do charge you for calling to these free numbers. There are free numbers that will only accept calls from a fixed line and not from a cell phone. Just check some dutch info and according to telecom regulation the law allows cell phone operators to charge for calling to a free 800 number in Holland. Not all operators will charge you, some might and some not. This is the reason yackie has the clause that local charges can apply in their terms. |
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16-09-2008, 21:24
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DEALER
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17-09-2008, 11:01
GeoSIM allows local SIMs to be registered on its system and use SMS callback. Credit is drawn from the GeoSIM user account. This allows users to use the call credit where the GeoSIM has no covergae or high incoming call charges.
http://www.globalsimcard.co.uk/sms_callback.php |
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