"Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk" <0845-86-86-888@Cheapest-Prices.ever> wrote in
message news:ft0t2e$ge9$1@registered.motzarella.org...[color=blue]
> BC wrote:[color=green]
>> 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[/color]



Speak for yourself sunshine, but don't castigate cable across the
country.

Virgin - as was largely NTL - got to where it is by taking over other
cable companies, and not all cable structures were as good as others.
Here I pay for 4Mb and get 4Mb (varies between 3967Kb and 4136Kb) and
rarely have an outage - perhaps three or four in over 6 years.

You don't, incidently, have to have TV and/or phone to have broadband on
cable - it is available stand-alone, as I have here.


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com