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"Allan Gould" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:5sacgtF18il69U1@mid.individual.net...
> [Reposted from uk.telecom, where incorrectly posted]
> VOIP has been around for a while now. I don't use/have it, but maybe need
> to review that decision. The main reason I don't use it seems to be that
> I don't know many (if any) people that I ring who have it (and therefore
> can't get the full benefit). I don't make a high volume of calls to any
> one number (that may or may not be a VOIP number). If I had VOIP, and I
> ring a non-VOIP person, I would have to pay call charges (about 1p/min?).
> Also, if I make international calls (not many), I can usually find a cheap
> (1p/min) number from that trusty old friend, http://niftylist.co.uk/ (who
> are presumably using some clever international internet-related VOIP
> routing comms). I typically have enough free minutes & texts on my
> landline (which I need for ISP broadband subscription) and mobile
> packages. I can't see the advantage of having VOIP at present. Am I
> missing something?
I have pretty much come to the same conclusion. I spent a fortune playing
with Asterisk,
getting Nice cisco phones,all fun and games for a while, I was self employed
and had spare time.
however now I can not be bothered, the amount of savings I make at home via
VOIP at home now probably would be
less the cost of leccy for the phones I have.
I went down the road of trying to have a multitude of VOIP in numbers in
different places, and to be honest it tended to piss more off.
Most people not really that bothered which number they call as long as it
works which is not always the case.
Nowerdays the closest I come to VOIP is uisng Skype. The VOIP nazis on the
group will no doubt say its not a real VOIP system. But is pretty much the
most useful system around as if any of your friends are likely to be using a
VOIP system it will be SKYPE, I know also have a Skyphone from Three which
allows me free skype calls on my mobile. This function has sometimes saved
me more money in 1 day than rest of my home based VOIP system in 2 years.
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