Hi,

Another interesting candidate here...

[url]www.startel.pt[/url]

Appears to be offering unlimited international calling (to 30 destinations),
no proprietary / own softphone (they promote X-Lite and hence provide and
support full SIP functionality and therefore any SIP soft/hardware).

The basic completely free service appears to allow 1 minute calls to the
free destinations - or any length calls if you register the destination
number in ENUM.

The main "pro" service - appears to provide unlimited international calling
to the free destinations provided you have topped up by E10. I can find
nothing about credit expiry or limits (e.g. their does not appear to be any
max. 300 minutes a week Betamax type limits stuff).


Any experience, thoughts, etc. welcomed.

This could be very good and entirely what I could / would hope for. If this
is a long-term, non-promotional / non-beta service - then that strikes me as
great value.


Best wishes,



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