American Roaming Network to sell prepaid cards

[COtech]

Originally Posted by hf1khal

Wow a new edition. I only saw the $1 once before and it disapeared. Now I have a question, may be some one would shed some light on it. The say the prices are for out ound only any idea if inbound is alloud and if so how much it will be then?

Use for outbound only long distance service to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada.- No Monthly Fees are ever charged - All Calls Are Billed only In One Minute Increments - Accounts Expire One Year After Date of Purchase - No Charges for Calls to 911.

Inbound calls would require a working number, via a prepaid or postpaid plan. Without a number, no HLR to let the home switch know where to send your calls.

COtech

[Steve Williams]

Anyone know how long the entire U.S. will have until CDMA becomes obsolete, i.e. any idea when the carriers will discontinue CDMA which will in turn make American Roaming Network unavailable??

ARN will become obsolete unless they are able to add GSM calls which they currently do not handle, Any thoughts on this?

[hf1khal]

Originally Posted by Steve Williams

Anyone know how long the entire U.S. will have until CDMA becomes obsolete, i.e. any idea when the carriers will discontinue CDMA which will in turn make American Roaming Network unavailable??

ARN will become obsolete unless they are able to add GSM calls which they currently do not handle, Any thoughts on this?

CDMA will be there for a good long time as to GSM they are working on adding it but I think the issue with this be the SIM and if it is deactivated, i wonder how they would be able to get it to register unless they have it in their system which they would be able to get the SIM to register as an OK thing in their software system.

[Fire14]

Originally Posted by Steve Williams

Anyone know how long the entire U.S. will have until CDMA becomes obsolete, i.e. any idea when the carriers will discontinue CDMA which will in turn make American Roaming Network unavailable??

ARN will become obsolete unless they are able to add GSM calls which they currently do not handle, Any thoughts on this?

I don't think we will see CDMA become obsolete, maybe they will change it to better technology as it's invented & who knows what GSM will become, it's already changing to W-CDMA.

It would be interesting if they make phones that could roam between CDMA & GSM, but that would open a whole nother can of worms & could cause more price competition between carriers if it worked & all services worked with it.

[Steve Williams]

Originally Posted by Fire14

I don't think we will see CDMA become obsolete, maybe they will change it to better technology as it's invented & who knows what GSM will become, it's already changing to W-CDMA.

It would be interesting if they make phones that could roam between CDMA & GSM, but that would open a whole nother can of worms & could cause more price competition between carriers if it worked & all services worked with it.

Right now the carriers send ARN the unbillable calls from CDMA phones via a simple call redirect to a local access number, then when the call hits the ARN platform you get an IVR that walks you through with the ability to buy a prepaid account, or pay per call via credit card or collect call.

What is the process that American Roaming Network would use to be sent the calls from GSM phones?

[Gonz]

I'm thinking they would have to re-program the networks to allow a 3 digit access number, and make the phones update so that the three digit number would be recognized as an emergency number to the phone so it would connect. I suppose you could edit a sim and put 528 or something in there and see what it does when it connects....


I do not advise trying any potentially real emergency number for this.

I used to do this to get service with CDMA phones on negative entry SID's. I programmed the number i wanted to call as an emergency number in the NAM, and it would search for any net....

I'm sure the same could be done with a GSM phone, but what it would connect you to is a really good question..... Would it actually give an error message, or just not let the call go through?

[bobolito]

Just in case anyone is confused, this thread is over a year old and was just revived.

[thom]

Originally Posted by Telekom

Trust me it's $2.99 to set up the connection and $1.99 per minute. I've set up my Nokia 6360 for use with the service by reprogramming the NAM to 123-456-7890 and have attempted to make calls. I've not actually made a call since I don't have a spare $5 to throw away

Dial around service are killing them and unless they lowered their rates by half, company like Onesuite.com which I use for my long distance calls will get more and more customers who wants cheap long distance calls or even roaming rates.

Check the roaming rates comparison here ($1.99 per minute is almost a standard on major carriers) -> Best Alternative to International Roaming, Save up to 90%

[Telekom]

Originally Posted by thom

Dial around service are killing them and unless they lowered their rates by half, company like Onesuite.com which I use for my long distance calls will get more and more customers who wants cheap long distance calls or even roaming rates.

Check the roaming rates comparison here ($1.99 per minute is almost a standard on major carriers) -> Best Alternative to International Roaming, Save up to 90%

Just how is onesuite supposed to help you with roaming? If you're using your mobile phone you don't have any choice of how you're going to use it in a foreign environment unless you get a local prepaid SIM for your phone (if you have GSM.)