<Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:20:12 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote:
>
>>Reputedly you get reliable service from Gradwell, Vonage and perhaps
>>Voiphone,
>>but they all charge rental, which rather limits any savings.

> Vonage does NOT charge rental they charge 9.99 a month inclusive of
> VAT and ALL calls to geographical numbers in the whole of the UK
> and ALL of Ireland . What is BT charging for their all calls package
> is it twenty eight quid a month or something and that only includes
> calls to northern Ireland not the south !!.

If it's a charge payable every month regardless of how much or how little
you use it, then in my book it's rental. I can't have the service without
paying it, so as far as I'm concerned it's rental by another name.

As I told you before, I'd struggle to make £9.99 of calls in a year, never
mind a month..! Most of my calls are to mobiles, so I use the mobile for
that, or Sipgate users, which are free anyway, so what I'd do with a
tenner's worth of calls to landlines in a month I have no idea..!

Ivor