"Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in message
news:13o5qc6909p6v01@corp.supernews.com...[color=blue]
> Well, yes, there are lots of deals and largely thanks to Betamax, it
> is a major pain to try to work out which one to go for. Then there are
> all sorts of cheap deals on landline calls too, making any savings via
> VoIP fairly minimal.
> And most of us have mobile contract deal too.
>
> In my own (fairly special) case, (I don't have a landline :-) I gave
> up on Betamax etc. and just stick with
> sipgate.co.uk.
> It gives me rental free UK geo. landline No., I use it for 0800
> calls, infrequent foreign calls, and of course free calls to other
> VoIP users.
> It works just fine ( I have QoS VoIP router ) and I pay very little
> (just for the foreign calls).
>
> It easily covers 'Homeworker's' first 5 points.
> 6. can have multiple sipgate Nos, but needs hardware (e.g. suitable
> router) to ring one phone.
> 7. can be done with some hardware, or asterix.
> 8. no one can do that at present
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Likewise with voip.co.uk - 'cept they don't participate in inter-voip
dialling by access code, so the only free calls are to other voip.co.uk
users.

To the OP - note that it is voip, not viop. (Yes, I've got a dyslexic
keybrod as well!)


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