BC wrote:[color=blue]
> A work colleague wants to start using voip over her cable broadband and
> eventualy cancel her BT line rental.
>
> I use voip.co.uk myself but as they are not currently taking residential
> customers we are looking for other recommendations. Sipgate is not an
> option as she will need to be able to port her BT number over once the
> account is up and running.
>
> Thoughts and recommendations would be most welcome.[/color]

speaking from personal experience, if she is planning on using virgin
cable connection I would advise against canceling BT line as it will
cost £100 to get it re-connected when she finds Virgin next to useless.

Others have used and I'm sure still use cable for voip without problem,
I ended up scrapping cable completely in favour of ADSL/BT as cable is
still on the slippery slope to oblivion where only the customer gets
completely shafted.

Sipgate for free incoming number and one of the betamax companies for
outgoing.

I only get around 1.5Mbps on adsl at home and even that is better for
voip than the rubbish virgin were claiming as a 10Mbps cable connection.

Cable is dead in the UK.
Long-Live ADSL and 21CN (or whatever it's called)

As others have said, changing numbers is no problem at all, I changed
the business phone number to an 0845 number provided by voipfone.co.uk
Keeping the BT line means anyone that takes a while to get the new
number can be dumped to an answerphone with a message giving the new
voip number.

Other opinions may vary of course.

Cheers
Pete
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