Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register
SAYNOTO0870.COM

<---- Back to main website

 
Home Help Search Login Register

Pages: 1 2 
Send Topic Print
Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08**** (Read 25,387 times)
alanenglish
Newbie
*
Offline



Posts: 10
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #15 - Nov 18th, 2005 at 2:30pm
 
VoipCheap do now offer a free incoming phone number in the 056 range. This number is treated the same as an 01 and 02 number by BT. Just fire up VoipCheap and click the link at the bottom to get your free number.
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
NonGeographicalMan
Ex Member


Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #16 - Nov 18th, 2005 at 3:00pm
 
alanenglish wrote on Nov 18th, 2005 at 2:30pm:
VoipCheap do now offer a free incoming phone number in the 056 range. This number is treated the same as an 01 and 02 number by BT. Just fire up VoipCheap and click the link at the bottom to get your free number.


I hadn't realised that.  Trust Ofcom to allow 05 to now be used for freephone and geographically priced calls.  They really are quite useless.

However I would much prefer to have a geographic 01/02 voip based number as offered by Sipgate to give people the impression they are still calling a normal uk number rather than one that may cost them extra.
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
daities
Newbie
*
Offline



Posts: 12
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #17 - Nov 18th, 2005 at 7:54pm
 
Yes, I agree and I intend to take a couple of 01 numbers from sipgate.
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
NonGeographicalMan
Ex Member


Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #18 - Nov 18th, 2005 at 9:01pm
 
daities wrote on Nov 18th, 2005 at 7:54pm:
Yes, I agree and I intend to take a couple of 01 numbers from sipgate.


Daities I just discovered that the Sipura SPA 3000 has the additional feature of letting you log into it via voip from your office or hotel room or holiday apartment (if it has a broadband connection) to make calls at your home phone providers rates (i.e. using your 01/02 all calls plan etc if you have one) or of calling it on a landline to make outgoing voip calls.  But then it does cost nearly 90 quid to buy.  You may still be in your 7 day right of return period though although you would obviously lose the outbound and return postage.

See www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h731.htm,  www.voipuser.org/forum_post_8091.html and www.voipuser.org/review_8.html

Of course in the long run all phone calls will be voip only but that must be 5 to 10 years away.
Back to top
« Last Edit: Nov 18th, 2005 at 9:02pm by N/A »  
 
IP Logged
 
daities
Newbie
*
Offline



Posts: 12
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #19 - Nov 18th, 2005 at 11:49pm
 
Looks too complicated for me and the user reviews seem to bear this out with a constant criticism of lack of documentation.  Also, it only seems to have one port for a telephone while the linksys has 2 so I can use one for the fax machine (a real bit of overkill mind you bearing in mind the number of faxes we actually receive and send but it will look impressive!!)  I also don't see much need for remote log in to use the calls at providers rates especially as I would have to be somewhere with my laptop hooked up to make the call.

And apart from anything else I need to get a number soon that I can start to use and tell others about to replace my cancelled second line.  As long as the linksys works the way we are expecting I will be happy!!!

Thanks for keeping me in mind though and it is also nice to see what other ideas there are about for using these boxes.

Regards................David
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
NonGeographicalMan
Ex Member


Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #20 - Nov 19th, 2005 at 12:12am
 
It does look a little fiddly and it can be a mistake to spend too much on these devices as they are so often superseded by new technology in the fullness of time.

Also a lot more people seem to have the linksys PAP2-NA so there is rather more available on the web forums about how to set them up.

So far as fax is concerned my fax machine broke a while back but I have an 0870 number Shocked that lets me receive a fax as an email.  This seems to be one of those few cases where a legitimate extra service is being provided on an 0870 number, except of course that I should be the person paying for it and not the person who needs to send me a fax.  But nobody will give you such a facility on a geographic number. Angry
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
owengrainger
Newbie
*
Offline



Posts: 10
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #21 - Nov 25th, 2005 at 5:47pm
 
  Cry

http://www.o2promotions.co.uk/FreeSimsOct05/

The offer is now closed - and Ive missed it!
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
bigjohn
Supreme Member
*****
Offline



Posts: 2,316
Gender: male
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #22 - Nov 25th, 2005 at 7:09pm
 
You have to be quick. Wink  But dont worry  another one will be along soon!


Hold on this link still seems to work
http://www.o2promotions.co.uk/FreesimsOct05/index.aspx Smiley
Back to top
« Last Edit: Nov 25th, 2005 at 7:13pm by bigjohn »  

BJ.
 
IP Logged
 
owengrainger
Newbie
*
Offline



Posts: 10
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #23 - Nov 25th, 2005 at 7:20pm
 
Smiley

Great.

Many thanks
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
gray
Newbie
*
Offline



Posts: 25
Re: Cheapest calls to mobiles and 08****
Reply #24 - Nov 26th, 2005 at 10:54am
 
Rather than continue with Voip Cheap you could take a look at SipDiscount (another Finarea entity) which is designed to be set up on an ATA - like your new PAP2 and doesn't require to have the PC on.  The list of free destinations is actually longer than VC. I have been using it for two months with no serious problems (apart from the occasional need for a redial). www.sipdiscount.com
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
Pages: 1 2 
Send Topic Print
(Moderators: Dave, Forum Admin, bbb_uk, CJT-80, DaveM)

Website and Content © 1999-2024 SAYNOTO0870.COM. All Rights Reserved.
Written permission is required to duplicate any of the content within this site.

WARNING: This is an open forum, posts are NOT endorsed by SAYNOTO0870.COM,
please exercise due caution when acting on any info from here.


SAYNOTO0870.COM » Powered by YaBB 2.5.2!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2024. All Rights Reserved.


Valid RSS Valid XHTML Valid CSS Powered by Perl Source Forge