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Any other company besides voipfone
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| viveklinux@gmail.com 2005-12-26, 5:45 pm |
| Hi,
I was wondering if there is any other company besides voipfone which
provides the same services as voipfone.
thanks in advance ,
vivekian
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| viveklinux@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
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> I was wondering if there is any other company besides voipfone which
> provides the same services as voipfone.
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> thanks in advance ,
> vivekian
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The same service? No. Companies offer different services, not all offer
the exact same combination of services or tariffs
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| viveklinux@gmail.com 2005-12-26, 5:45 pm |
| >The same service? No. Companies offer different services, not all offer
>the exact same combination of services or tariffs
OK , maybe similar services.
thanks,
vivekian
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| Brian A 2005-12-27, 7:45 am |
| On 26 Dec 2005 09:02:08 -0800, viveklinux@gmail.com wrote:
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>OK , maybe similar services.
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>thanks,
>vivekian
It isn't just a case of whether a company offers similar services.
Other factors such as reliabilty are important. you can have a
plethora of service but if you can't rely on the service being
available they are of little use.
Here is a quick run down of some companies you can check out....
voipfone is fairly reliable, has many good, polished, facilities. I
think that their pricing/packages could be better.
vonage is said to be reliable but I think that it is VERY expensive.
FreeTalk is similar, I believe, at a cheaper price - though I think
still too expensive.
voip.co.uk is, so far, from my experience, very reliable and, I think,
offers the best tariff. The problem is that they don't actually
provide all the services they claim to on their web site - at least
not last time I tried. There is NO voicemail at all and NO forwarding.
'Calller display', 'call waiting' and '141 CLI blocking' work OK.
You can buy additional geo numbers for a one-off charge but as there
are limited facilities, currently, that will work with them then they
are less inviting than they might be. No point in complaining, to
them, that the voicemail isn't working as they will just reply that
it will be fixed 'at the weekend' - in what year it is unknown. I'm
resolved to a long wait! I've put an old fashioned answering machine
on my line now. If they really did fix the voicemail and forwarding
then they would be the 'tops' as far as I am concerned. Summary: Good
tariff, reliable, need to improve on facilities.
voiptalk and voipuser - I've never managed to get them to work so no
comments.
gradwell - Reputed to be good but, I think, pricey.
gossiptel - no comment
sipgate - free geo numbers, somewhat basic voicemail. No further
comments.
Dexter and Ivor hold opposite views. Best to google groups on this
one!
Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.
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| Ivor Jones 2005-12-27, 5:45 pm |
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"Brian A" <no_spam_bca1000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:rfd2r1dpbi9sndciglet7bmllri08o4fpq@
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[snip]
> sipgate - free geo numbers, somewhat basic voicemail. No
> further comments.
> Dexter and Ivor hold opposite views. Best to google
> groups on this one!
Dexter is no longer a Sipgate customer and so cannot make any currently
valid comments..!
[stands back...]
Ivor
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| Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk 2005-12-27, 5:45 pm |
| On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:45:19 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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>"Brian A" <no_spam_bca1000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:rfd2r1dpbi9sndciglet7bmllri08o4fpq@
4ax.com
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>Dexter is no longer a Sipgate customer and so cannot make any currently
>valid comments..!
But he has a couple of friends who are and it certainly looks like you
are still on the Sipgate payroll EUROPEN .
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| Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:45:19 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
> <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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> But he has a couple of friends who are and it certainly looks like you
> are still on the Sipgate payroll EUROPEN .
Sorry but I also have no issues with sipgate
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| Ivor Jones 2005-12-27, 5:45 pm |
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<Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:45:19 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
> <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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[vbcol=seagreen]
> But he has a couple of friends who are
Then let them speak for themselves.
> and it certainly
> looks like you are still on the Sipgate payroll EUROPEN .
EUROPEN..? Don't understand that one at all. And I still don't work for
Sipgate but even if I did it is no business of yours.
Ivor
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| {{{{{Welcome}}}}} 2005-12-28, 5:46 pm |
| Thus spaketh Mark:
> Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
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> Sorry but I also have no issues with sipgate
I have no problems either with Sipgate, it's a great service.
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| Thomas Kenyon 2005-12-29, 7:45 am |
| Mark wrote:
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> Sorry but I also have no issues with sipgate
Me neither, been using them pretty solidly now for at least half a year.
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| Ivor Jones 2005-12-29, 5:46 pm |
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"Thomas Kenyon" <uktvoip@sanguinarius.co.uk> wrote in
message news:iBNsf.11877$r4.3770@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net
> Mark wrote:
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> Me neither, been using them pretty solidly now for at
> least half a year.
I've been with them since they started up in the UK. A few outages in the
early part of this year, but otherwise no problems at all. I agree the
voicemail audio files need re-recording, but that's a minor issue. It
doesn't talk to me in German any more, anyway..! (My German has improved
so it wasn't all bad..!)
Ivor
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2006-05-06, 7:11 am |
| On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:16:19 GMT, Brian A
<no_spam_bca1000@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The problem is that they don't actually
>provide all the services they claim to on their web site - at least
>not last time I tried. There is NO voicemail at all and NO forwarding.
There is certainly voicemail of a rather basic sort. I've not
forwarded calls off-net, but I was under the impression that it is
possible.
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2006-05-06, 7:11 am |
| On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:42:31 GMT, Mark <nospam@this.pc> wrote:
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>Sorry but I also have no issues with sipgate
Nor I. I mostly use voip.co.uk but my sipgate accounts and numbers
seem to work reliably and give no problems at all.
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| It happens that hairydog@despammed.com formulated :
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:16:19 GMT, Brian A
> <no_spam_bca1000@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> There is certainly voicemail of a rather basic sort. I've not
> forwarded calls off-net, but I was under the impression that it is
> possible.
It is & it works - you can set the destination on the web interface.
I've never tried setting it in the ATA.......which I'm sure I've read
doesn't work. (Sipgate works setting the destination in the ATA, BTW)
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