I use callbackworld. Many people use a competitor called enlina.
A callback system assigned you a dummy number in a third country, usually the US. You dial that number and hangup. The system triggers a return call to a prearranged number and gives you essentially a dialtone. You dial an outbound number at that point.
I always carry a second phone with me (a Blackberry Connect device) and I usually trigger the calls from the second phone. Roaming SIMs usually have their own builtin callback system and this avoids a double callback.
My Blackberry connect device, by the way is a Nokia E61, which gives me VOIP connections over wifi as well. You can use truphone and can make free calls to the US over wifi much like SKype calls off a laptop.
Stu
A callback system assigned you a dummy number in a third country, usually the US. You dial that number and hangup. The system triggers a return call to a prearranged number and gives you essentially a dialtone. You dial an outbound number at that point.
I always carry a second phone with me (a Blackberry Connect device) and I usually trigger the calls from the second phone. Roaming SIMs usually have their own builtin callback system and this avoids a double callback.
My Blackberry connect device, by the way is a Nokia E61, which gives me VOIP connections over wifi as well. You can use truphone and can make free calls to the US over wifi much like SKype calls off a laptop.
Stu
Kinda bringing this back up.
Any international sim providers with a USA cell number?
Also, so callback world would work like this.
I got 09, and I'm in Poland which has free incoming. I want to call the USA. I just call, hangup, and it calls me, which then I can call to the USA at 15cents/min.
For traveling around the EU, also Norway, and Australia, would 09 be the best? Anything good for a USA-international sim foward number price wise?
Any international sim providers with a USA cell number?
Also, so callback world would work like this.
I got 09, and I'm in Poland which has free incoming. I want to call the USA. I just call, hangup, and it calls me, which then I can call to the USA at 15cents/min.
For traveling around the EU, also Norway, and Australia, would 09 be the best? Anything good for a USA-international sim foward number price wise?
So, there are NO USA number international roaming, free incoming in other parts of the worlds SIMS. I think, there never will be. USA is the only country that doesn't do the CPP thingy, so the math and billing and cross billing would be tough. That is why the callback pricing is so cheap.
I setup the riiing with an 800# in the USA, that costs me 1.00$ a month, so people in the USA just call the 800#, everyone else gets the LIC number, or the 800#, it works for me to pay the .15$, rather than have people not want to call, or god forbid call LIC without a calling plan or something.
I setup the riiing with an 800# in the USA, that costs me 1.00$ a month, so people in the USA just call the 800#, everyone else gets the LIC number, or the 800#, it works for me to pay the .15$, rather than have people not want to call, or god forbid call LIC without a calling plan or something.
In Memoriam
Yackie is probably the one you are thinking of.
www.yackie.com
No experience with them. I'm looking at places like
www.yackie.com
www.rangeroamer.com
www.united-mobile.com (which is where riiing is based now)
and a couple others for a few trips coming up.
Make sure to look at all the small print, one minute vers six second billing,things like that make a huge difference in total cost, it's just not a per minute rate
www.yackie.com
No experience with them. I'm looking at places like
www.yackie.com
www.rangeroamer.com
www.united-mobile.com (which is where riiing is based now)
and a couple others for a few trips coming up.
Make sure to look at all the small print, one minute vers six second billing,things like that make a huge difference in total cost, it's just not a per minute rate
So, yackie changed their name to yackiemobile.com a while ago,
but, yackie never offered free incoming minutes, anywhere, so it wasn't really an option for me at least. As for the other, rangeroaming never offered FIM in the USA, so it was pretty much similar to the others, yes one could get a USA number, but the riiing option with 800# would be much much cheaper.
but, yackie never offered free incoming minutes, anywhere, so it wasn't really an option for me at least. As for the other, rangeroaming never offered FIM in the USA, so it was pretty much similar to the others, yes one could get a USA number, but the riiing option with 800# would be much much cheaper.
Hmm, still with Mexico, 09 looks the best, and with call back its 15cents then a min.
What about jajah? Looks though thats pricy iceland mobile to USA.
What about jajah? Looks though thats pricy iceland mobile to USA.
Someone posted about this company in the stickied thread about SIM cards:
http://www.maxsim.co.uk/
Does anyone have any experience with them? They looked pretty interesting to me. Thanks.
http://www.maxsim.co.uk/
Does anyone have any experience with them? They looked pretty interesting to me. Thanks.