Originally Posted by
Frequentflyer99
... I just bought one and it is has a standard UK mobile number (07872), with free incoming calls most places in the world (apart from N America). Can anyone report on reliability and whether they really do work "as described on the tin" ?
I was also interested in the Bluefire sim and went to the Bluefire website to learn more. The belief that you can get "free incoming calls in most places" is not quite correct. See below for the US$ costs per minute for incoming calls. I decided it was not really worth it.
Afghanistan 0.95
Alaska 1.5
Algeria 0.45
Andorra 0.45
Antigua 2.0
Argentina 1.0
Armenia 1.0
Aruba 1.0
Azerbaijan 0.45
Bahamas 0.45
Bangladesh 1.0
Barbados 2.0
Bermuda 1.8
Cambodia 0.5
Canada 1.5
Cayman Islands 2.0
China 0.75
Dominica 1.0
Dominican Republic 1.5
Faroe Islands 1.0
Greenland 1.0
Grenada 2.0
Hong Kong 0.5
India 2.0
Indonesia 0.45
Kuwait 1.5
Laos 0.5
Macau 0.5
Malaysia 0.5
Maldives 0.75
Mexico 2.0
Nepal 1.0
Pakistan 0.75
Peru 1.0
Philippines 0.5
Puerto Rico 1.5
Russia 1.0
St. Kitts 1.5
St. Lucia 2.0
St. Vincent 2.0
Samoa 1.5
Saudi Arabia 0.75
Singapore 0.5
Sri Lanka 0.75
Taiwan 0.5
Thailand 1.0
Ukraine 1.0
USA 1.5
Uzbekistan 0.75
see here
http://www.bluefirewireless.com/Downloads.aspx for more info.