Re: Any UK Vonage Users?

Dave Gill:
>But remember, the Vonage £9.99/month package includes unlimited free
>calls to local and national geographic numbers, to get that with BT
>you'd be paying £25.50/month - a bit more than another few pence...

It's £10.99 from OneTel,
and £0.00 from Voipbuster, after you have paid 1 Euro ;-)
Regards,
Martin

Martin² wrote:
> Dave Gill:
>
>>But remember, the Vonage £9.99/month package includes unlimited free
>>calls to local and national geographic numbers, to get that with BT
>>you'd be paying £25.50/month - a bit more than another few pence...
>
>
> It's £10.99 from OneTel,

More like £20.98 if you take OneTel line rental and unlimited geographic
calls.

> and £0.00 from Voipbuster, after you have paid 1 Euro ;-)
> Regards,

When it works.

> Martin

dcuk:
>More like £20.98 if you take OneTel line rental and unlimited geographic
>calls.
But you have to pay the rental anyway to have ADSL (unless you get your BB
via wireless ;-), so you would be paying very nearly the same to use Vonage
AFTER you have paid for the locked ATA. What's the point ?
Regards,
Martin

Martin" <never@give.one> wrote:

> But you have to pay the rental anyway to have ADSL (unless you get your BB
> via wireless ;-), so you would be paying very nearly the same to use Vonage
> AFTER you have paid for the locked ATA. What's the point ?

If you have cable your ADSL service isn't necessarily bundled with a
phone line nowadays. :-)

However, if you have cable your TV service will probably be bundled with
a phone service instead. :-(

It's about time Sky brought out a package that didn't require a fixed
phone line for the first year; that might encourage the cablecos to
think about more solus TV packages. (Sky's argument is that the phone
line is necessary for chargeable interactive services, which I'm sure
many of us probably wouldn't want to use anyway...)

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Martin² wrote:
> dcuk:
>
>>More like £20.98 if you take OneTel line rental and unlimited geographic
>>calls.
>
> But you have to pay the rental anyway to have ADSL (unless you get your BB
> via wireless ;-), so you would be paying very nearly the same to use Vonage
> AFTER you have paid for the locked ATA. What's the point ?
> Regards,
> Martin


I don't have ADSL, I have cable, and no fixed line phone, so I only pay
for my broadband.

"Dave Gill" <spam-egg-chips-n-spam@spamsoff.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Martin" <never@give.one> wrote:
>
>> But you have to pay the rental anyway to have ADSL (unless you get your
>> BB
>> via wireless ;-), so you would be paying very nearly the same to use
>> Vonage
>> AFTER you have paid for the locked ATA. What's the point ?
>
> If you have cable your ADSL service isn't necessarily bundled with a
> phone line nowadays. :-)
>
> However, if you have cable your TV service will probably be bundled with
> a phone service instead. :-(
>

I have NTL broadband, and I do not have their TV service. I only have their
telephone service because I was offered it free for 12 months, but that will
be going when the free period ends.

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<Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:08:07 GMT, "GwG"
> <sorrythisdoesntwork@guess.uk.co> wrote:
>
>
>>I have NTL broadband, and I do not have their TV service. I only have
>>their
>>telephone service because I was offered it free for 12 months, but that
>>will
>>be going when the free period ends.

> Other way round with us we got the free TV with the phone line from
> Telewest both are going on Friday just keeping the broadband has I
> think it is more stable than ADSL not had one bit of trouble with it
> in 12 months . When we had BT & ADSL we had nothing but trouble
> of one kind or another .

Never had a problem here with BT line and Wanadoo or whatever they're
calling themselves this week. Had ADSL for over 2 years and only had one
or two minor outages which were quickly fixed. A lot of reported problems
have been with the cheapo USB modems that they supply. Get a router and
Ethernet connections and the problems go away.

The main problem with cable I believe is the upload speed, I'm told that
it's only 128k on some systems.

Ivor