+44 1943 465918Yes the SAMBA requires a SIM card. You can use either a pay as you SIM or a contract SIM.
FALCOM Frequently Asked Questions
Founded in 1990 and headed from Germany, Falcom entered the GSM market in 1997. Their plug-and-play, compact, light-weight, wireless modems provide EDGE, GPRS and GSM.
Calls are charged via your mobile phone provider at the normal SMS text rate. You can negotiate the rate when you buy the SIM card that goes into your SMS modem.
Yes the SAMBA will require a SIM card
Calls are charged via your usual mobile phone provider at their normal SMS text rate.
Yes. The AT command set is documented on the CD that is supplied with the SAMBA 55 and SAMBA 75.
You can find the drivers for both the SAMBA 55 and SAMBA 75 at http://www.falcom.de/support/drivers-firmware/
You can download drivers from http://www.falcom.de/support/drivers-firmware/samba75/ and User Guides, References for the AT command set and so on at: http://www.falcom.de/support/documentation/samba55-56-samba75-samba3g-e/.
The SAMBA 55 has been discontinued and is no longer being manufactured. The best alternative is the SAMBA 75 which is a quad band GSM modem and will therefore work anywhere in the world.
The Falcom Samba 55 is no longer manufactured. The drivers are however still available from the manufacturer's website here.
The SAMBA 55 is now discontinued, however the SAMBA75 is still available and will work on Windows 7.
Yes, the SAMBA 75 works with Windows 7. There are drivers available from the Falcom website.
The Samba 55 was discontinued some years ago. I am not sure that Windows 7 drivers exist for the Samba 55. All the available drivers are on the Falcom website.
