SIM card expiration – a warning

I recently found out that Lebara, which I had thoroughly researched and truly believed to be streets ahead of any other SIM providers, deactivate your SIM card if you do not use it for 80 days. Now that’s not a total disaster – I expect the vast majority of our customers will either use their phone one time and this won’t be an issue, or use it regularly enough to ensure it...

A short case study … #1

If you are reading this, I’d guess you are interested in renting or buying a cell phone to use while you travel.  If not and you are just visiting at random – hi! The chaunt.com site does its best to clearly show you how easy it is to buy, not rent, a cell phone to use while in the UK.  But I often find it easier to understand a process when I hear a story, a real life example of...

Welcome to chaunt.com

I am one of those people that sometimes looks at things and thinks: Ridiculous!  Why is it that way?  Surely it should be easier? Do these people just lack creativity, or are they just trying to rip people off? Which is exactly what I thought when I looked at the cell phone rental business.  Ridiculous about sums it up, really.  I mean, cell phones are cheap enough to buy brand new nowadays,...