I've just had the hard sell from India (I suspect) from a companycalled VONAGE who want to send me a free device to plug into my BTbroadband modem so that I can effectively get unlimited free phonecalls to UK and something like 30 other countries. Free isn't totallycorrect as the charge is =A37.95 a month.I ducked out for the moment by saying I only had a bank card insteadof a Visa type card which they wanted.Anybody had any experience of this? What made me even more hesitantabout following this up is that there is both and doing the same thing !!CheersRob

OT: Phone over the internet (VOIP) ?

Jan 31, 2008 25 Replies

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Gordon Henderson 18 years ago

They're not closed services - they all offer out-dialling to the PSTN, most for free to various locations, if you keep a tenner (or 10 euros) in the account.

Scroll down to the bottom and look for the USA - most of the boxes are green/0 ...

Eg. Voipcheap.com will give you free calls without even paying them anything, but they cut you off after 5 minutes. (so you just re-dial) (or they did when I played with it some time back - made a half hour call to my brother in germany through it, re-dialling every 5 minutes!)

I wish I knew how they did it ...

Gordon

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Huge 18 years ago

That's utterly useless to me.

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Dave Liquorice 18 years ago

I don't think Skype gets anywhere near the 0.083p/min that the 5p for an hour on BT Option 1 works out at. OK that is variable depending on call length but for calls over about 4 mins long the BT way is cheaper...

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Adam Aglionby 18 years ago

Try reading the bit that might be useful...

Most of the Betamax service require you to put in a tenner to have unlimited free calls, without the 5 minute bar, to the selected destinations.

There is a catch, they shuffle free destinations around them frequently, and you cant transfer balance between diffetrnt Betamax providers so can end up with balance on an account that hasnt got free calls to your wanted destination, even then call costs are low so if your a heavy user still end up better than landline charges.

Adam

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Huge 18 years ago

Not to the USA it ain't. Which is all I use Skype for.

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Huge 18 years ago

You know what, I've *already* spent more time on this than I give a damn about. I spend about GBP20/yr with Skype, and thats in the the noise. It works, which is all I care about. Why would I want to change? (This is a rhetorical question, so far as I am concerned, this correspondence is closed.)

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