Toggle Mobile

[ChrisNeedsToKnow]

This may be interesting for users in the EU, and specifically in the German/Swiss border area:

base.de now offers a flatrate @ €28. Within EU+Switzerland+Liechtenstein+Iceland+Norway it includes:

• all incoming calls
• all outgoing calls to Germany
• 500 MB/month data at a fast speed
• all-you-can-surf after that, but at a lower speed

So if you get two of the above you can call, without limit, between those 2 numbers, throughout all of the EU!

Interesting for German users: You can port an exisiting German # to this SIM.

ALDI offers something similar: Prepaid, without flatrate, but incoming calls free.

I just ported my German # to Aldi to be able to receive calls on my "usual" number, in Switzerland, free of charge.

It´s a shame toggle doesn´t offer porting. Overall, there doesn´t seem to be any movement anymore. They just leave the product rotting away. It´s just such a pitty!

[akraus88]

The new toggle SIM cards come with a couple of IMSI's in them, and Sweden for example is missing, and when I try to activate a Sweden IMSI I get a message "local imsi is not greater than max imsi index". Can we go to Sweden and be on the "romaing" profile, or is there another trick for that? Can anybody confirm this for me please?

[petkow]

Thanks Inquisitor for that very detailed reply. The particular problem I experienced was I was coming into the USA from Mexico where I had the "Roaming" profile selected (as they do not have a local IMSI option there). Understandibly (by your explanation) the phone did not register in the USA on this profile. I then put the phone to "Auto", thinking it would automatically change the IMSI to the USA one but this also did not work.. so the only thing left to do is manually select USA in the toolkit option. Out of habit now, I always my phone in manual and then manually select the required IMSI.

Interesting point about the Lycatel MVNO under each local IMSI. As a side thought, I wonder if calling any of the Toggle numbers are counted as Lycatel (LycaMobile) numbers in their current promotion of free calls to other Lycamobile numbers: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8457
If so this could indeed be a very interesting extension to the Toggle roaming product. Has anybody got a normal LycaMobile SIM to try that out on?

[HappyCamp]

Originally Posted by petkow

Thanks Inquisitor for that very detailed reply. The particular problem I experienced was I was coming into the USA from Mexico where I had the "Roaming" profile selected (as they do not have a local IMSI option there). Understandibly (by your explanation) the phone did not register in the USA on this profile. I then put the phone to "Auto", thinking it would automatically change the IMSI to the USA one but this also did not work.. so the only thing left to do is manually select USA in the toolkit option. Out of habit now, I always my phone in manual and then manually select the required IMSI.

Auto works for me here in the US and everywhere else I have traveled. But it can take a long time, like 5-15 minutes before it finally registers. Once it has registered, if I turn the phone off and back on it seems to re-register faster.

[inquisitor]

Reliability of the automatic IMSI switching very much depends on each handset's STK implementation. So this is rather a question of which device you use than which country you are staying in.

[bourbonkiller]

@ petkow

I have tried to call my swiss toggle number with my swiss lycamobile sim and it does not recognise the toggle number as a lyca own number. By the way, this is in line with the information of the lycamobile hotline which told me that it will not be charged as on net call of lyca mobile.

[inquisitor]

While using my toggle SIM in Germany using its local IMSI yesterday, I could not connect to the voice mailbox by dialing the short code 121, as this failed with the announcement that "the number is invalid".
Dialing the long number (+44 7438 646121) did however work. Obviously the short code (121) does not work in Germany.

EDIT: Customer service has just informed me that short codes won't work outside the UK. It's not very far-seeing to store the short code instead of the full international number on their SIM cards and to include only the short code in voicemail notifications, especially not for a product that is addressing frequent travellers.

Anyway I would prefer if we could completeley disable voicemail.

[peterdoo]

I called the CS immediatelly after receiving the SIM. They have disabled the voice mail after requesting that. It has never answered any call since.

[ChrisNeedsToKnow]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

Anyway I would prefer if we could completeley disable voicemail.

I sent an email asking to have voicemail disabled - and it is!

Originally Posted by inquisitor

Reliability of the automatic IMSI switching...

Along the D/CH border I tried "automatic" IMSI select extensively. On my crappy C2-00 phone it just crashes the phone and doesn´t work.

So my procedure at the border now is: Manual select, phone off, phone on.

What I find most annoying are the then-following confirmation SMS "welcome to", which cannot be de-activated. That´s ~6 SMS every day, with no value whatsoever. :/

[MBK]

The short code to disable the voice-mail is the same as the lyca one.

I think it was *185#, but you can verify this on the website.