On Sun, 27 May 2007 21:02:02 GMT, Brian A
<no_spam_bca1000@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:28:35 +0100, Heidy
><Heidy.ManwayNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>x-no-archive:yes
>>
>>Hi what do you guys suggest for an Incoming Number For Ireland.
>>
>>Vonage the Voip I use are fairly expensive for this £5-99UK plus one off
>>£5-99 connection payment.
>>
>>I notice that Skype have NO Skype In Numbers for Ireland at all.
>>
>>It seems like Ireland is an expensive country to get an Inbound Number
>>if at all available.
>>
>>Vonage do NOT do SMS texting to landlines or Mobiles is there a better
>>solution than Vonage
>>
>>They alway get me to give all my detail Name,Full Address,Account Number,
>>Email Address,Tel Number,Username why do they need a massive amount of
>>information versus calling your regular PSTN phone company?
>>
>>Vonage operators always announce themselves as "The Number 1 Rated
>>Digital Phone Company"
>>
>>Yet when you ring them on 150 its like talking them on a crackly two way
>>radio I end up having to call them back on my PSTN instead, there reps
>>are based in the States most of the time calls get through ok.
>>
>>Heidy
>vyke.co.uk do texting. You can text from their web site or intall an
>application on your your mobile phone. I installed the Java version on
>my 6230i and it works very well. Unlike some applications it uses the
>existing phone memory contacts - so no need to program in contacts
>again. Excluding any data charges (about 1K of data) the charge for
>the text message is about 4c (Euros).
>In the UK, if you text a landline number, the text is converted to
>voice for the recipient. I just did a test. I sent a text from O2 to a
>voiptalk number. When answered it says 'This is a message from BT'
>...it speaks the number it was texted from and the message.
>a friend installed the Java version on his Samsung phojne but it
>wasn't so user friendly for him. I get the feeling that it will
>probably work better with Nokias that have phone memories.
>
>Next, you do not have to use the same company for incoming and
>outgoing calls. If your ATA doesn't cater for additional outgoing
>providers then use voxalot.com on the Eu server to facilitate this.
>If you don't have an ATA, other than a locked one supplied by Vonage,
>then come back with your requirements and someone will advise you what
>to get. Tariff wise you can easily do better than Vonage.
>
>I can't advise on phone numbers for Ireland but doubtless someone
>here will be able to help.

further to my last post....
The only 2 Ireland Voip providers I can see are blueface.ie and
freespeech.ie
Freespeech appear to do 076 numbers, which, accroding to a search I
made, is the voip prefix in Ireland.
Check out here.... it appears to be free !!
http://www.freespeech.ie/?tabm=2

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