Soruk wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:20:04 +0000, Mark Carver
> <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Now and again I look seriously at the viability of using voip rather
>> than POTS.
>>
>> I currently use a combination of BT, 18185.co.uk, and Talk Talk
>> (Routed with an Orchid device).
>>
>> A number of those calls are free. Out of the chargeable ones, the
>> total cost over a one month period was £3:78.
>>
>> I've calculated what the cost would have been (I think) using
>> Sipgate, and their standard call charges.
>>
>> http://www.sipgate.co.uk/user/tarife.php
>>
>> It comes out at £ 6.03. No contest, and I've not included the outlay
>> for the voip hardware, or included the voip cost of the free calls I
>> currently get via TalkTalk, these would add another fiver.
>>
>> The calls are a mixture of 60% UK landline, 30% UK mobile, 10%
>> 0870/0845/international.
>>
>> Under what circumstances is voip a better deal, or have I got my
>> sums very wrong ?
>
> Re-calculate using VoipCheap, rather than Sipgate.
....or one of the other Betamax VoIP brands, such as VoIPDiscount, VoIPStunt
etc.
http://www.backsla.sh/betamax
As I have cable broadband I didn't need a landline, so that was around £10
saving each month, I put calls through VoIPStunt as when I joined I got a
local VoIP-In number from them so didn't change, I paid around £6 in total
for 2.5 years of phone service / calls - once they started to implement the
top-up requirement I used free credit from easyMobile for signing people up,
it was use the credit or lose it as they were dropping out of the UK.
So 2.5 years of phone service for £6 is pretty good (Plus the cost of the
PAP2 ATA).
I do still use VoIP but not as much as before simply because VM offered me
free install of phone line (phone line was previously with BT as cable is a
rip-off on the phone at full rates) free line rental, free evening and
weekend calls package and free caller display for as long as I stay a
customer. So I wasn't going to say no.
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