GYM SIM yacht mobile phone sim card

[blueglass]

Just bought one of these sim cards from a link elsewhere on forum yesterday. GYM SIM isa sim card for your mobile which appears to give great roaming rates for multiple countries. I bought it mostly for using in France/Spain back to UK landlines but also has excellent rates for use within foreign networks without being routed bak through your UK server.
Before I get carried away with it - anybody got one? problems? best usage tips etc?

 

[lydiamight]

Have a lookat www.oneroam.co.uk Usual declarations as to no financial interest etc, etc. Was going to say "no connection" but I had second thoughts about such a weak pun.

 

[blueglass]

yes - same kind of deal. Anything's better than using T-mobile to talk to a French marina half a mile away, trunked through the UK.

 

[seanstone]

Hi Lydia, erm, I am actually the person you bought the GYM sim from. If you want, dont hesitate to ask me a question or two about the service.

Yes, as pointed out, oneroam has a similar type of service as GYMsim, but with effort to stay unbiased, I can tell you the service oneroam offers at the moment is not doing well. They recently changed their service provider, and at the moment the change has been difficult. There is no reliability, no texting, no voicemail, no fwding. Just to point out a few ;o)

I dare say in a year or so their service will be reliable, but give them time, they have a contract with swisscom, so have more roaming partners which is fantastic. So on the plus side, when the service is working properly, it will be great (but by then I will also be running the same provider too, in tendem)

I can tell you my systems strengths and weaknesses too if you wish? But I can also say that you will notice a lot of private yacht crew with GYMsim's, I launched it in the begining of the winter in the caribbean, it is holding its own as a new technology, had a few gripes here and there, but all in all, is revolutionising the way crew use their phone as they travel.

But , I guess you will be testing it soon enough, if you like it , please be my guest and tell everyone. Yachties are such a closeted group, never take word for it unless it is coming from a friend!

kind regards
sean stone

 

[BrendanS]

It helps a bit if you post here as a boaty before launching into a product approval of your own product and dissing your rivals, no matter how strongly you believe in your own products.

Just a little hint of good advice, before you get flamed

People who launch into product approvals on their first post are seen as advertising, and get fairly short thrift around here.

You might want to edit it a bit, then come back with more commercial comments once you've been acknowledged as a genuine poster, not just a freebie advertiser

 

[EME]

Buy from the Competition ...

Thankyou Brendan, I was about to rip into him.

The most UNprofessional act anyone can ever do is knock the competition rather than highlight the strengths of their own product,

Sounds like you peeps should buy the competitor product if he engages in the need for that kind of crap, undoubtedly means his product has failings.

 

[boatone]

Re: Buy from the Competition ...

I wouldnt get stressed about it.....he's not very good at it anyway ! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

He hasnt really identified his outfit.....in fact a google search didnt mmediately find them.....and several of the links on his web site dont work either. Didnt leave me feeling very confident/interested at all.

 

[rickp]

Re: Buy from the Competition ...

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The most UNprofessional act anyone can ever do is knock the competition rather than highlight the strengths of their own product

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Which is one of the most amusing things about Peters now selling Sealine. There, think that got it back boaty before anyone noticed /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[blueglass]

Re: Buy from the Competition ...

As owner of a GYM SIM, i find some of the comments in this thread to be highly presumptive. As regards knocking the guy for advertising himself, and then knocking him again for not identifying the product - not much of an advert is it!
For me it comes up immediately at top of page with a google search, and all the links work fine. Must be the way I press the buttons.
Also, email support is good, and so far it does everything it said on the tin. Will be cruising in France at the end of the month so will report back here then, if anybody is interested in facts, as opposed to pontification.

Dave

 

[seanstone]

Re: Buy from the Competition ...

It seems I have taken considerable heat on this.

I would quickly like to say that my product, as oneroam have agreements with wholesale network providers, some are better then others. Purchasing wholesale is often a matter of price against quality.

The new technology we are talking about uses the callback system, but packaged using direct call back, to make seamless user interaction (the old callback system is very cumbersome). At the moment, wholesale callback accounts for 60% of current world traffic, it has completely undercut the normal telephone servce, if you are using a normal telephone service to make international calls, you are paying up to 10 times over the top! If you need to afix a number before making a call, then you are using direct call back .. with low rates for both domestic and international calls. An example is www.telediscount.com There are many others. They all give about the same level of pricing as Voip , and some even use voip (at the loss of voicel quality)

It is so successful that many network providers have tried to ban callback in their respective countries, sadly to some success ... sometimes you will find the callback numbers dont work with these callback companies, this is because the networks are doing everything they can to shut them down, so they block the callback numbers when they find them, but then the callback companies have the ability to stay one step ahead by telling their customers to use different access numbers.

It can be a little annoying , but definately worth it.

As for our service, and oneroams, we do it over mobile providers, so dont have the banning problem. We are among the first, but due to the cost saving potential, I can guarantee there will be plenty more soon. Oneroam's provider has a few technical problems true, but not for too much longer, I would like to point out that due to it being the same technology, if a client has a bad experience with them , then GYMsim will be tard with the same brush, it has already happened. So I politely point out, my network provider has been in business for over 2 years, wheras oneroams has been around for a few months. Please try oneroams product, there are telecom providers that are just doing that, I have a few pilots and crew using their product. If it starts working well, then tell everyone, because it will be another product that will be another nail in the coffin of the big network providers who have been illegally overchaging us with their insane romaing rates. (vodafone and 02 are fighting a court battle with the EU at the moment) But the fact remains, until oneroams wholesale provider is more reliable I recomend other options.

I try to offer the best customer services, and will refund a card if you dont want it. It has to be like this with products using new technology. The other problem with new technology, is that the sellers will tell you how good it can be, but not how good it is right now. We all fall into the pit of the "perfect world" .

My product is not perfect, but then neither is the vodafone passport. We all suffer when using foreign networks. Foreign networks always put overseas roaming partners low on the pecking order .. their own service comes first naturally. But then I would say we have a 90-95% sucess rate in europe, which is good, but is something to improve upon.

I thank David for the support, fingers crossed our service will keep you smiling. especially when you compare against your friends who juggel sim cards.

If you only go out on one 2 week holiday overseas per year, then it probably wont be worth it (depending how much you use your phone) ... but if you travel regularly, this is a fantastic new technolog just perfect for you ... whichever company you wish to use, just get a sim card and try it out.


Best of luck ... Sean
www.gymsim.com

 

[PhilF]

I got one

think its a good idea. Chap was very helpful, answered queries by return and sim card arrived the next day, and works!!! I don't think there is any problem in forumites introducing new products to us, keep em coming
Philf

 

[yachtlinda]

Some feedback for the board. I and some friends tried out GYM SIM on a recent trip and found it unreliable and have given up on it. I am currently trying a SIM from Oneroam (thanks for the tip!) and so far so good. Good reception, reliable connectivity. It seems to do what it says on the tin! Anything but go on paying Vodafone's extortionate rates abroad.

One other "beware" for everyone. We recently spent a day on a cruise ship off the Spanish coast and used my SIM assuming I was roaming onto a Spanish network. It turned out that the ship had a mobile phone mast of some description to allow people to make calls when offshore. It somehow roams onto US networks so we ended up paying the prices as if we were in the USA - big bill!! If you are in this situation, check carefully which network you are picking up.