Ever get fed up with high roaming costs? I don’t know about you, but I pay something like a euro to receive or make calls when roaming.
Well, here’s a really interesting MVNO that makes receiving call free (like normal, for us here in Europe) and making calls, for the most part, inexpensive. And the text message costs are not so bad either. No data though.
Now, all we need is a few more of these to drive the prices down more. I think this is a good start.
Go read about it. And let me know if you give it a try.
Link [thanks Peter]: Welcome To WorldSIM™ The Global Roaming SIM card.
WorldSIM is a Pay As You Go service that allows you to use your mobile phone when you are travelling abroad without incurring expensive roaming, calling, or texting charges.
Sounds very interesting. I’d give it a try if they also had SIM cards with German telephone numbers. But if it can be done in the U.K. it might be possible to do it elsewhere in the future, too!
Thanks for the post,
Martin
United Mobile (http://www.united-mobile.com/) has been doing this for several years, run out of Liechtenstein. I don’t hear too much about them, though their continued existence suggests they must be doing okay.
I think the issue here is that for frequent travelers — often business users — the desire to save on roaming must be weighed against forcing people to call a number in a country different than their own (Liechtenstein, for instance, on UM). Also, it seems these operators rarely offer the best deal in a user’s home country, meaning they’ll typically need two numbers, another detraction for business users.
But there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on in this space, between the heavy hand of EU regulation and changing technology, such as VoIP in general or products for MVNOs like those from Blueslice (http://www.blueslice.com/).