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Originally Posted by wilsonhlacerda
I'll continue to look for some Global SIM that offer US, HK, etc. phone number, but after some research and andy's suggestion I think it will be easier to find a SIP VoIP provider that can call UK mobiles very cheap and use it to forward to some of the Isle of Man's SIMs.
Take a look in this forum that will help you to completely understand it. It's the best I've found in the last days about this subject:
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I think you'll have difficulty in your search, because of the termination fees I commented on, and I've spent some time looking ...
Apologies for not telling you yet about Skype, and it seems it is just the wrong moment as they've corrected the tariff. Perhaps you can see why I was only willing to mention this privately. Recently I used Voxalot and a Vono account (from Brazil) to reach it, which was more reliable and cheaper than the forwarded SkypeIn number, but it looks like this will be over now for this particular use. The call quality was rather variable anyway.
There will be some more global SIMs soon - another from IoM called Cloud9, though perhaps their (weekdays only) free incoming calls will be mostly in Europe. Others may not be very far away.
With any of these global SIMs, just as for many single-country ones, using a separate callback (maybe also with a call forward) is cheaper than their own tariff. Setting up the call involves either double callback or use of another phone, such as wap/gprs for Voxalot mobile callback.