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Originally Posted by marks_voip
Been using sipgate for a month or two. Been pretty happy with it so far. Free to sign up, geographic number and the acount managment website is pretty good.
Only downside I can see if that if you say credit your account with £10 and then leave, you can't get the £10 refunded. But thats no issue unless the whole service goes to pot and you want to leave.
The forwarding of viocemails as attachments to emails is a good idea, and useful to me when out and about as i can pick up voicemails via email.
I don't really have other VOIP providers to compare to (as I've not used them). But sipgate seemed the sensible one for me.
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Well I've gone for it. I've got an account with SIPGate. I've wagered a tenner to "see how it goes".
There are a number of things about SIPGate that I like:
(1) Having a local "allocated" voip-in number. I'm out on the moor west of Glastonbury, and SIPGate have given me a 01458 (Glastonbury) number.
(2) The voicemail getting emailed to you as a WAV file.
(3) no minimum call charge unlike BT's 5p, so if someone's out and you get their voicemail you'll only get charged 1.1p - My SWMBO does this all the time, she phones somebody, waits for the voicemail to cut in, hangs up and tries again up to 5 times thinking they really *ARE* in but not getting to the phone quickly enough.
Its a terrible shame they don't allow you to phone landlines for free like VoIPCheap do though.
The downside of SIPGate:
(1) 1.1p per minute to landlines
(2) Charged by the minute not the second.
I'm just wondering whether to keep the VoIPCheap account going for outgoing calls and the SIPGate for incoming. Oh I dunno, we'll see how it goes. I *CAN* call other SIPGate people using the
username@sipgate.co.uk format, unlike VoIPCheap.
It seems you can register for SIPGate and get a voip-in number for free without having to credit any money