Hi there,

I have seen BT BB Voice and for around £12.00 per month I can get unlimited
UK calls.

No seeing as this is interent based is there any reason why this service
would not work if I sent the hardware to a friend in the USA so we can speak
for free and they also get a UK phone number?

Comments please.

Thanks

"OwlService" <owlservice@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4170f2f6@212.67.96.135
There is no reason why this woudn't work in the USA - it works in other
countries.

The only thing to note is that the UK number they are allocated will be in
the 055 or 056 range (costing 5p/min to call) not an 01/02 number

Regards
Sunil

Yes it will work. Indeed I read an article in the paper the other day about
people who travel on business a lot so take it with them to other countries
to do just that.

BUT

If you only want to do this so you and your friend can talk, there are a
number of other voice over IP options available (many for free) that would
allow you to do the same ting although of course, your friend would not have
a UK number.

Why not use Talk talk? 5p per minute to the USA at any time as well as much
of Europe. Referral available if you wish. You get £10 and I get £25.

Peter Crosland

"Peter Crosland" <g6jns@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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I guess they would be more likely to use 1899 - as thats only 0.5p/min to
the USA (+3p connection charge) - of course, neither option helps if the
person in the USA wants to call here..

Regards
Sunil

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:07:43 +0100, "OwlService"
<owlservice@gmail.com> wrote:

No reason why it shouldn't work - I have mine with me in Spain this
weekend.

However in setting up a VOIP service with another provider they
refused the sign-up as the IP address I was originating was spanish
and not UK. Had to VPN back to the UK, use a UK IP address and get
the sign-on code that way. Draytel now works fine from Spain.

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"OwlService" <owlservice@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4170f2f6@212.67.96.135...
Would sipgate not be a better (cheaper) option with a geographical number
thats inclusive from uk landlines (rather than 5ppm special corp rate
number).

www.sipgate.co.uk

Sam

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If you think 1899 will hold that rate for very long!

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Its still cheaper than talk talk, and even if it rises its unlikley to be up
to 5ppm is it.

Sam

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What I am saying is will 1899 be around at all!

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More than likley, even if it did disappear, why would it particuarly matter?
There are other cheap (but not as cheap) ways of making international calls.

Sam

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Thanks for the information Gents.

I don't quite understand the 5p pm charge as I can't see it mentioned on the
anytime plan:
http://www.btbroadbandvoice.com/broa...it_cost_2.html

Thanks

Sound interesting Hiram, what's involved with doing that ? (hard/software)

Dave...
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"OwlService" <owlservice@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Calls from BBV to UK landlines are free on the anytime plan.

However, BT allocate the BBV user a 055/6 telephone number - so if someone
wants to call the BBV voice user.. that costs 5p/min

Regards
Sunil

"Peter Crosland" <g6jns@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2td1rrF1u6dk4U1@uni-berlin.de
Well even if 1899, 18866, Telediscount and all the other related companies
disappeared (as they are all part of the same group) - there are lots of
others offering calls to the USA for less than 5p.

http://www.ratebuster.co.uk/ (owned by Centrica/Onetel) do it for 1p/min for
instance...

Regards
Sunil

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:43:39 +0200, "Dave" <myozone@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Got ADSL from Telefonica, connected a Draytek Vigor 2600VG, managed to
work out the configuration from the sign-on letter and away we go -
WLAN at the Villa.

Added the Draytek Draytel service (www.draytel.org) to one of the two
phone ports on the router and now have an 0870 number at the Villa -
but importantly calls back to the UK are 1.6p a minute to landlines.
Even more important is that a UK CLI is presented to the called party
- which can be very useful.

I also have VOIP between home, office and villa - which is free to
use.

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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:19:57 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
<news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

Oh yes.



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In article <41712d30$0$59435$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>,
Albrow SJ <news.stn1_homenet1@homenet.f9.co.uk> wrote:
Not to mention the fact that BBV requires a monthly subscription whereas
many of the VoIP schemes do not. This may or may not make sense depending
on the volume of calls to be originated from the USA side - it might be
better to get BBV with the standard or another inclusive-calls plan; it
may not.

Zane.

Sunil Sood <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
How is 05[65] charged for calls to each other?

On 17 Oct 2004 22:58:52 GMT, Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

Same as local and national UK - 3p per minute daytime.

Source:
http://www.btbroadbandvoice.com/broa...s_it_cost.html

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