Skype again

[Gumby]

I know we've discussed it before but I just love Skype

Booking my (now cancelled) NZ holiday recently, I was on the phone direct to a hotel or the car hire company and paid 13.5 cents for a 4.5 minute phone call.

No wonder Tel$tra shares are low.

[Wood Butcher]

I've got VOIP (Internet Phone) and it cost me 10c to any landline phone in Australia for as long as I want. For an extra $10 a month for the service I save on average $40 a month. More money in my pocket the better.

And its gets even better with Wireless Broadband being rolled out here, soon you can ditch the landline connection altogether and just have a VOIP phone with a mobile as a backup in case of a blackout.

[Gumby]

I've got VOIP (Internet Phone) and it cost me 10c to any landline phone in Australia for as long as I want. For an extra $10 a month for the service I save on average $40 a month. More money in my pocket the better.

And its gets even better with Wireless Broadband being rolled out here, soon you can ditch the landline connection altogether and just have a VOIP phone with a mobile as a backup in case of a blackout.

With VOIP, how much are incoming calls

[Cliff Rogers]

I bought a new headset & never got it out of the packet.

I should & then I could sing Happy Birthday to you.

[Wood Butcher]

With VOIP, how much are incoming calls

Who cares. I'm not paying for them!

It costs the same to call my VOIP number as it does to call my landline.

[Auld Bassoon]

IBooking my (now cancelled) NZ holiday

Does this mean that you are now coming to the WWW show old bean?

[Gumby]

Does this mean that you are now coming to the WWW show old bean?

Yeah, but don't tell anybody

Who cares. I'm not paying for them!

It costs the same to call my VOIP number as it does to call my landline.

It's just that if people know it's the same or cheaper they will call you. If it's too expensive, they won't.

If i had any friends, i'd want them to call me.

I should & then I could sing Happy Birthday to you.

That's why you aren't on my Skype friends list

[DPB]

I just signed up for a VOIP service. It is costing me $9:00 per month plus call charges as noted above. My calls to Canada are costing me 2.5 cents per minute.

I signed up with my service provider for a regular land line for $27.00 per month which continues to take incoming calls. I did so because I don't want to go through the hassle of changing my telephone number. Although my VOIP phone has its own telephone number, I will reserve that system for outgoing calls only.

[scooter]

Just signed up today with SIPME, 9.9 c untimed any landline across Oz.

27c/min to mobiles. We don't have need to ring overseas.

Getting a headset tomorrow, will give it a run first before I buy one of those ATA thingies.


Cheers................Sean

[Cliff Rogers]

.I could sing Happy Birthday to you.

.That's why you aren't on my Skype friends list

If I make a video of it, can I upload it like you did with your interlude?

[Gumby]

I had a look at the Sipme and Engin sites. One thing which gets forgotten is that the calls to mobiles at 27cents are timed per second. You could make 3 20 second calls for 27 cents for instance. Same with Skype. But one 20 second call to a mobile with telstra is 39cents because they charge in blocks. :mad:

[MurrayD99]

I registered but I haven't spashed out on the headset yet. What happened to the NZ trip Gumby? Worried about political instability?

[scooter]

Wasn't feeling sheepish enough?

[Gumby]

no, sick father-in-law, is in hospital so the wife wasn't really in the right frame of mind to go.

(I posted an answer to this yesterday but it seems to have not worked. I'm getting some severe timeouts since they switched to the new server.)

[Nic0]

I also have skype but when i made the switch to ADSL i decided to buy a combined ADSL/VOIP router that I can plug my normal cordless into so I don't have to leave my computer on. I have been using freshtel for about 3 months for outgoing calls only and it works great, not to mention the 10c untimed calls.