In article <0kn7f11777a35f62cqra906ghueeo4sla2@4ax.com>,
nospam@nospam.comm says...
>>
> IMHO anyone who tries to sell a VoIP service on the cost of calls is
> completely missing the point. The benefits of VoIP include portability
> and flexibility of equipment and numbering, for example being able to
> have a french number in the UK or have incoming calls ring a phone in
> the UK and Australia at the same time.

So if our caller Id system comes up with some number in the U.K, it
could be someone in spain? It is worng, at the end of the day, caller
I.d is suppose to give us some idea, wherte the call is from and who it
is.




> Since the majority of call costs in the UK are to mobiles I really
> can't anyone marketing VoIP here solely on price succeeding, you can
> get similar rates as you say from any company without the equipment,
> hassle and quality of service issues.


Most of my calls are to land lines, I will not call a mobile, unless it
is very important, I do not even use my own mobile that often.

>
> In the US it's a bit different as they don't have the same type of
> competition that we have, mobile calls usually cost the callee not the
> caller and most broadband is supplied without a phone line.
>

When/if that happens here, then things may change.