Woody wrote
on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:04:53 GMT in message
<9qTIj.32005$%N1.18416@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>:
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>"Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk" <0845-86-86-888@Cheapest-Prices.ever> wrote in
>message news:ft0t2e$ge9$1@registered.motzarella.org...[color=green]
>> BC wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> 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]
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>
>
>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.[/color]

I've no problems either with VoIP over my cable (xTelewest) broadband
serive.

No one knows I am using VoIP unless I mention it.

Yes, I know many people with broadband only from cable and no TV or phone.

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