News Reader wrote:
> Sure...
>
> I think you have got it exactly right. When providing the "invoice address"
> prior to being able to make a payment into an account, if you choose France
> as the country, it will give you a French premium rate number to use (I
> understand this only works from France Telecom lines) with the 0.56 euro
> rates with 120 free days (on those Betamax operations that provide 120
> days).
>
> I am quite surprised and amazed that voipcheap.com are offering 90 days on
> the UK premium rate! Wow... quite good even! I am pleased you found and
> mentioned that.
>
> I "kind of like" the top-up by mobile thing but it does seem like a bit of a
> chronic rip-off to me... probably not so or to bad if you have excess
> (mobile) credit you need to use up... but charging you ~ £5 for a
> significantly lower amount of credit and then telling you you will only get
> 60 free days when the going number of free days for a top-up of 5 Euros is
> 120 seems a little rich....
>
It looks like it is the invoice address as you mention - I tried
entering a couple of foreign numbers in that voipcheap account but
still was given the UK number.

Still, I'm probably going to France for a month next year, so a
NetAppel account at that address could be interesting, and I wonder
what sms top-up costs there.

I'm slightly cautious about the times shown, as you hint. In Voipbuster
the phone number gives you 14 days as you say, but Voipcheap.com has
90. The p-sms credit has only given 60 freedays on Voipbuster, where
the website shows 120 days ...

I might not have bothered with VB but it seems to be the only one so
far that has a callthrough number and a Java callback client that can
be installed in some mobiles ........ now I'm also wondering how long
the free trial calls last that can be triggered off the various
webpages, as it looks like some of the panels are only about 4k and
should work over wap/grps ...