Ditto here.

As a prior customer, I just received email from these folks, advertising
this new SIM and offering me a time-limited discount if I ordered by
December 1. Conspicuously absent from the email was the cash value of the
package being offered/discounted.

At the same time, Intouch Global is selling (apparently) the same product
on eBay. I wonder how the dollar value of this "early buyer discount"
differs from what's offered on eBay. The creative wording that Intouch
Global uses often looks like a thinly-veiled shell game.

In any case, the ad contains a warning that only a limited number of GSM
phones have been certified as compatible with this card; of course they are
all Alcatel and Siemens phones not readily available in the US. But Intouch
Global will sell you one.

Apart from the basic functions of making calls and checking balance, the
Swisscom card used SIM Toolkit functions that are not implemented in many
commonly-available recent phones. I'm not sure, from the wording, whether
this new card's requirement of specific phone models is based on the same
issues, or something else. Superficially they seem to use the same
interface technology as the Swisscom card.