Thanks for your post BJ.
I have myself been following discussion elsewhere about this service, and was waiting for more news about it before posting on the forum. I guess that you were in a similar position, seeing that you said nothing about it yourself and merely posted a link ?
The little that I have seen so far indicates that A&A are a MVNO on the Three 3G network with no 2G fallback. So you need to check Three's 3G coverage before you buy - though it seems to have got better lately.
The system is designed so that it can offer you an 01xxxx number, delivering via SIP when that's working (say over WiFi), otherwise over 3G via the Three network. You pay a small per-minute fee for incoming
calls when in 3G mode.
The charges are pretty low at present, and the service is very flexible, but it's only a public beta at the moment. That said, it seems very reliable. The call quality seems very good - noticeably nicer-sounding
than 2G GSM, but apparently 3G uses a nicer codec, so that's only to be expected from a properly implemented network.
Their SIM costs £10 to buy, and £2 per month once you activate it. See Andrews & Arnold -
www.aaisp.net .
This information has been gleaned from the post by martin at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.telecom.mobile/browse_thread/thread/29eb2bbb580936c7?hl=en-GBwith my thanks.
