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Where can I buy an Israeli SIM card online?

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Lars Hansen - 09 Oct 2005 13:57 GMT
Hello

I would like an Israeli mobile phone number so people in Israel can call my
Israeli mobile phone number and reach me even though I am living in Denmark.

Receiving calls should not cost me money.

Is that possible?
Joseph - 09 Oct 2005 14:48 GMT
>I would like an Israeli mobile phone number so people in Israel can call my
>Israeli mobile phone number and reach me even though I am living in Denmark.
>
>Receiving calls should not cost me money.
>
>Is that possible?

International long distance is involved so no, you couldn't do
anything that wouldn't cost you money.  You might be able to sign up
for service with a VoIP provider and get a "virtual" number in Israel,
but you're not going to find a solution that's not going to cost you
anything.

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Lars Hansen - 09 Oct 2005 15:22 GMT
thanks...do you know where I can find Israeli VOIP services?
John Navas - 09 Oct 2005 15:35 GMT
>thanks...do you know where I can find Israeli VOIP services?

"Google is your friend."
<http://www.google.com/search?q=israel+voip>
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Lars Hansen - 09 Oct 2005 16:10 GMT
I tried google to see if I could find a VOIP-service in Israel , but I
didn't manage to find any....so I was hoping somebody in this NG would
know...
John Navas - 09 Oct 2005 16:43 GMT
>I tried google to see if I could find a VOIP-service in Israel , but I
>didn't manage to find any....so I was hoping somebody in this NG would
>know...

The link I included (which you apparently missed in your haste to respond)
showed you how to Google it.  The 2nd major item in the results:
"VoIP Providers List - VoIP Israel VoIP Providers Israel"

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Joseph - 10 Oct 2005 00:12 GMT
>I tried google to see if I could find a VOIP-service in Israel , but I
>didn't manage to find any....so I was hoping somebody in this NG would
>know...

You must not have searched with the correct term since I went to
google and in the search box typed VOIP Israel and came up with
several listings.
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Dr. Joel M. Hoffman - 08 Jan 2006 15:10 GMT
>I would like an Israeli mobile phone number so people in Israel can call my
>Israeli mobile phone number and reach me even though I am living in Denmark.
>
>Receiving calls should not cost me money.
>
>Is that possible?

It is not possible.  No matter what you do, receiving calls from
Israel while you're in Denmark will cost you something.  However,
international call from Israel are not expensive, so it will not cost
you much to forward your calls.  I don't know if the pre-pay services
in Israel support call-foward, though.

Probably a better solution is to get an Israeli VoIP number.

-Joel

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Mike S. - 09 Oct 2005 15:04 GMT
>Hello
>
>I would like an Israeli mobile phone number so people in Israel can call my
>Israeli mobile phone number and reach me even though I am living in Denmark.

www.cellularabroad.com
www.telestial.com

and numerous others.

It is usually ******MUCH***** cheaper to buy it in the country you are
travelling to.
Lars Hansen - 09 Oct 2005 15:22 GMT
thanks...do you know where I can find Israeli VOIP services?
Geoffrey S. Mendelson - 09 Oct 2005 23:51 GMT
> thanks...do you know where I can find Israeli VOIP services?

Since what you want is an incoming number that "looks" like it is in Israel,
you options are limted. Most Israelis have regular landline or cell phone
numbers and a VOIP line for calls overseas.

The two companies I know of that actually provide incoming service
here are MSN Netphone and DeltaThree.

It is not going to be cheap whatever you do, I don't think that either
is less than $25 a month plus 17% VAT.

Depending upon what you do, you may want to have people give you their
phone number and call them back with your VoIP line. You could offer them
a Euro off the price (assuming you are selling something) for the original
call.

Another option would be to use something like free world dialup, and
have a person with an Asterisk system make you an extension. For example,
let's assume your extension was 123 and your fwd number was 999999. They
can easily tie them together.

So you would have your SIP phone (or softphone) connected and waiting
for calls. When a caller received a menu that said "press 1 for Lars",
and pressed 1, they would be transfered to your FWD phone. If you had an
Asterisk system already at a fixed IP address, then you would not need
FWD.

This would not be very cost effective just for you, the cost of an
incoming line, internet connection and electricty to run the system
would be over 100e a month, but the incremental cost of adding you to an
existing system would be trivial.

A friend of mine did that when he moved here from the U.S. The company
he works for added his old home number to their Asterisk system. When you
call it, the system routes the call to his VoIP phone at his home in
Netanya.

You could post a note on the Asterisk users list. There may even be
an Israeli one, but I don't know what it is.

Geoff.

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Joseph - 10 Oct 2005 00:10 GMT
>thanks...do you know where I can find Israeli VOIP services?

Google:  VOIP Israel.  Most of them appear to be in the Tel Aviv area.
(Ramat Gan, Petah Tikva, etc.)  They may provide local numbers in
other areas of Israel.
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Joseph - 10 Oct 2005 00:07 GMT
>>Hello
>>
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>It is usually ******MUCH***** cheaper to buy it in the country you are
>travelling to.

Which doesn't help his want of a solution for people to be able to
call him on an Israel number and be reached in Denmark without paying
the fees to transport the call from Israel to Denmark.  I'm not sure
even if he wanted to that he could forward calls from his Israeli
prepaid to Denmark.  Even if it is possible I'm sure that the rate to
forward an international call will not be cheap if it's possible to do
that at all.  You'd also have to have some way to top off the Israeli
prepaid account when not in Israel which I believe would not even be
possible.
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John Riggs - 09 Oct 2005 18:13 GMT
>I would like an Israeli mobile phone number so people in Israel can call my
>Israeli mobile phone number and reach me even though I am living in Denmark.
>
>Receiving calls should not cost me money.
>
>Is that possible?

I believe a Riiing SIM card is the only one which will provide you
with free incoming calls in Denmark and Israel - but you have to have
a Liechtenstein mobile phone number.

http://www.riiing.com/

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Donald Newcomb - 09 Oct 2005 21:05 GMT
> Hello
>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> Is that possible?

Only by divine intervention.

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mrcamp - 10 Oct 2005 00:46 GMT
Receiving calls on an Isreali number in Denmark will cost you a lot
Because you would be roaming. I am sure you can get the sim online. Tr
ebay

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