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You seem to be mainly mobile phone based andy9 whereas I am mainly home fixed line based with occasional trips away overseas
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Your point about bundled minutes on mobiles seems to presume having an expensive mobile contract with those minutes in the first place. My Vodafone Smartplus call credit has gone down about £3 in the last 6 months!
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Clearly one's average friend or business acquanitance is going to find calling a Liechtenstein number very offputting. They will perceive it as expensive
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It seems to me like you don't make fixed line calls from home a lot in the daytime or you are one of those people who has a desktop computer on 24/7 to take voip calls? I have a notebook I always take with me when I go away so there would be nothing to redirect my voip number with if I didn't have an ATA.
Errr, not quite. I haven't used any VoIP at all yet, but am thinking of the call diversion and callback services of some providers. The cps here has most calls free so I'm not in a big hurry to VoIP for ordinary use.
I wouldn't say I am more mobile based, but I have had contracts with cashback of most of the line rental, such that the last few deals average around £10. I think I mentioned the callthrough operators mainly in response to the OP as I wondered if the ATA at home could be redundant for some of his requirements, as 0870 and foreign calls can be made from some contract-inclusive minutes.
On Riing, nobody has ever rung my actual number. I have had an 0844 number that costs the caller 2p/min from BT, then me 7p to reach me. I could have given them an 0800 number then paid 11p myself, or an 0871 number costing them 9p. Those tariffs have gone up or been discontinued recently, so I've made another arrangement, which could be a lot cheaper, but that's for another thread really.
I'm not arguing with the principle of having and using the facilities that this device will offer, just pointing out that some of those uses are available by other methods, like callthrough or callback, so it is worth some would-be users being a little circumspect about whether it is necessary. If I'm not in, someone else probably is, so we've never done call diversion from the landline. For me, it now looks like diversion of mobile to foreign mobile can't be improved any more, or calling from home to foreign mobile same price as UK ones.
But can you dial in to this unit, then choose the routing out from the remote location, as that could have some interesting possibilities? I believe you can dial in or out via VoIP or pstn, but I don't know how pre-programmed or flexible it is.