Maxroam Further Improves - now you can "roam for free"

Remember that company Maxroam, we mentioned them previously. Their Sim card

reduces your roaming charges hugely

allows your callers only pay landline charges when calling you

allows you to have fixed landline numbers (from 52 countries)directed to your mobile, creating a virtual presence in all those countries

Ronan O'Brien highlighted in a comment to our earlier post that they have further improved their service and now they allow free call forwarding.

What does this really mean for Maxroam Sim Card Users?

arrive at your destination

if you have a Hotel direct telephone number in your room, or office or other landline number you can forward all your Maxroam numbers to that number FOR FREE

Your clients dial your Maxroam local number which goes straight to your Hotel Room (or other landline number

You pay no call forwarding charges, no roaming charges, your caller pays a local call charge.

The bottom line is that you are now roaming for free and your clients are just paying a landline call to call you - a win / win all round.

You can just change your call forwarding number as you move from hotel to hotel and your callers just call the same maxroam local landline number to call you.

Lally Logic also gives a very positive reveiw of the Cubic telecom phone and Maxroam.

I know that a number of our Hotel Express clients are now using the Maxroam Sim and feedback is very good. So if you travel on business and want to reduce your roaming charges. Or if you are a small business and want to create a virtual global presence with lots of (normally priced-not premium priced) landline numbers forwarded to your phone then you should have a look at Maxroam.

P.s On a totally seperate unrelated issue Ronan O'Brien runs an excellent online fancydress costume business in Ireland www.irelandcostumes.com . So the next time you are invited to a fancy dress party (yes I hate them too), you can order your fancy dress costume on line at the click of a button. The party might be painful but at least ordering the costume isn't!





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Maxroam reduces your roaming charges when travelling

Cubic telecom, an Irish telecoms company, launched a new product called Maxroam late last year. The reviews seem good - ZD Net, Argolon, Ubergizmo. Whilestockslast provides a particularly good review showing direct cost comparisons between Vodafone and Maxroam and having personally spoken to one user he highly recommends the service.

The advantages of using Maxroam are-

• vastly cheaper roaming charges.
• you can have multiple local phone numbers coming to your phone.
• you can give your US landline number to your US contacts, your Italian landline number to your Italian contacts etc. etc. and they call you and they just pay a local landline call charge.
• you can create a local virtual presence in many countries.
• you can of course just forward your existing phone number to your new local number, so you do not have to give your new number out to all your existing contacts.

The downsides are a

• a callback service when you place your call (but users don't appear to have problems with this)
• the cubic telecom promoted handset does not get great reveiws (but you can use the SIM in any unlocked phone.
• there is no data connection or transmission

So if you travel regularly and are fed up of high roaming charges this product is certainly worth a look.

It may also be worth considering if you want to create a virtual presence in another country - your clients in that country call a landline number and pay land line charges whilst you sun yourself on the beach and pay lower incoming roaming charges.


How much does it cost?

In a nutshell you pay Maxroam €29.99. Which includes €5 free calls. Alternately you can pay €54.99 with €25 call credit and €5 free calls.


How does it work?

They send you a SIM card. You register the SIM card on their website. You pick a UK, Irish, French, Italian, Polish, Swedish, or US landline number free. You can pick up to 50 additional landline numbers, each for €2 per month.

They then asign you a local landline number in the countries you have chosen.

Put your SIM in your phone and away you go.

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