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Cheapest way to ring South Africa
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| Woggle 2006-07-09, 7:11 pm |
| Have got an SPA 3000 and currently running voip.co.uk
Am off to South Africa with work for the whole of September and would
like your thoughts on this.
Am trying to work out the cheapest way for my wife to call me whilst
I'm out there.
She'll be calling from a mix of both her mobile and our landline (can
you route calls from her mobile through voip.co.uk or similar?) and
she'll be calling to a mix of my mobile and a landline.
I'm trying to work out the cheapest way to do it:
- is it worth asking her to dial into our home number and then out on a
cheaper line?
- will I need to change voip.co.uk or add another voip provider? Any
thoughts
- Will I need a South African mobile SIM card or should I keep my UK
one?
Thanks!
Mark
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| Woggle 2006-07-09, 7:11 pm |
| Actually just compared the following to South Africa:
BT Peak: 0.5199
BT Off-Peak: 0.4599
Voip.co.uk: 0.085
Voip.co.uk mobile: 0.250
Call Union Peak: 0.047
Call Union Off-Peak: 0.047
Mobile Peak: 0.141
Mobile Off-Peak: 0.141
Anyone know of anyone who can beat Call Union?
Has anyone used Call Union?
Woggle wrote:
> Have got an SPA 3000 and currently running voip.co.uk
>
> Am off to South Africa with work for the whole of September and would
> like your thoughts on this.
>
> Am trying to work out the cheapest way for my wife to call me whilst
> I'm out there.
>
>
> She'll be calling from a mix of both her mobile and our landline (can
> you route calls from her mobile through voip.co.uk or similar?) and
> she'll be calling to a mix of my mobile and a landline.
>
>
> I'm trying to work out the cheapest way to do it:
>
> - is it worth asking her to dial into our home number and then out on a
> cheaper line?
> - will I need to change voip.co.uk or add another voip provider? Any
> thoughts
> - Will I need a South African mobile SIM card or should I keep my UK
> one?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Mark
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| paul123 2006-07-09, 7:11 pm |
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Woggle wrote:
> Anyone know of anyone who can beat Call Union?
voipstunt - =80 0.0348 inc vat to landlines
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Woggle wrote:
>
> - will I need to change voip.co.uk or add another voip provider? Any
> thoughts
> - Will I need a South African mobile SIM card or should I keep my UK
> one?
Woggle wrote:
> Have got an SPA 3000 and currently running voip.co.uk
>
> Am off to South Africa with work for the whole of September and would
> like your thoughts on this.
>
> Am trying to work out the cheapest way for my wife to call me whilst
> I'm out there.
>
>
> She'll be calling from a mix of both her mobile and our landline (can
> you route calls from her mobile through voip.co.uk or similar?) and
> she'll be calling to a mix of my mobile and a landline.
>
>
> I'm trying to work out the cheapest way to do it:
>
> - is it worth asking her to dial into our home number and then out on a
> cheaper line?
> - will I need to change voip.co.uk or add another voip provider? Any
> thoughts
> - Will I need a South African mobile SIM card or should I keep my UK
> one?
Roaming costs on a UK phone will negate any other savings you can make.
I'd definitely say get a different SIM card, either South African or
one of the global ones with free incoming calls. If you get an Isle of
Man numbered one, she can call you cheaply from landline with 18185
prefix or via Voipcheap.com both for 5p/min, 18185 2p at weekends. With
a ZA SIM, calls to it or callback with it would be from about 12p
Depending on which network the UK SiMs are - she could use O2 inclusive
minutes to an 0844 callthrough number for ZA landline, or on Orange
T-mobile or Virgin 07744 callthrough numbers come from inclusive
minutes, some providers even reaching South African mobile on weekdays
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| Harry Stottle 2006-07-09, 7:11 pm |
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"paul123" <paul@redy.net> wrote in message
news:1152478698.918366.74550@35g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Woggle wrote:
> Anyone know of anyone who can beat Call Union?
voipstunt - ? 0.0348 inc vat to landlines
Or if she wants to dial from a BT or NTL line without any bother, or
registration, 4p/minute from www.Dialwise.co.uk
Just dial 0844 428 46 46 then the South Africa number, or 10p/minute to
South Africa mobiles using 0871 999 91 91
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| PeterW 2006-07-10, 1:11 pm |
| [posted and mailed]
"Woggle" <markgolledge@googlemail.com> wrote in
news:1152473873.592191.294510@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
> Have got an SPA 3000 and currently running voip.co.uk
>
> Am off to South Africa with work for the whole of September and would
> like your thoughts on this.
>
> Am trying to work out the cheapest way for my wife to call me whilst
> I'm out there.
>
>
> She'll be calling from a mix of both her mobile and our landline (can
> you route calls from her mobile through voip.co.uk or similar?) and
> she'll be calling to a mix of my mobile and a landline.
>
>
> I'm trying to work out the cheapest way to do it:
>
> - is it worth asking her to dial into our home number and then out on a
> cheaper line?
> - will I need to change voip.co.uk or add another voip provider? Any
> thoughts
> - Will I need a South African mobile SIM card or should I keep my UK
> one?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Mark
>
Have a look at http://www.ourfavouritecompanies.com/Peak/phone-
rates/SouthAfrica.shtml
There are 7 companies (dialthrough) at 3p/min. I have used a couple of
these in the past (Telestunt & DiscountDial) and they seem to work OK. It
costs around 5p of course if the destination is engaged, but its better
than BT's 52p/min. They must think that we are all idiots. How can they
justify seventeen times the price.
Peter
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