[MLB-WIRELESS] [OT] Deal on home phones.

[Matt Boyd]

I'm toying with oztell and their voip product and an ATA box. The
general idea being that when I'm happy with the quality etc of voip
(quality is good at the moment but I'm concerned about reliability) I'll
drop the optus telephone, thus saving myself the $27 (ish) in line
rental. But then my internet access increases by $10 a month and I lose
the 50 free calls (another $10 per month). The local calls with oztell
are cheaper as are calls to other capital cities, which is pretty
standard for most voip providers.

It's a real pity you can't unbundle the line rental. The adsl2 stuff is
looking very nice compared to optus cable, particularly the up
bandwidth.

Matt

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "rick" <mibz at optushome.com.au>
> To: "Steve Smithies" <steve42 at gmx.net> 
> Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] [OT] Deal on home phones.
> 
> 
> > optus cable
> >
> > Steve Smithies wrote:
> >
> >>Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> >>
> >>>personally I have been toying with the idea of switching over to
> >>>broadband  and getting a VOIP phone... anyone have an opinion on that?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Unless you're thinking of cable or wireless broadband, I wish you luck
> >>in finding an ISP that can provide you an ADSL connection without having
> >>to pay Telstra $18/month for the copper line rental, with the basic home
> >>phone package.
> >>
> >>I'd love to rent just the copper line, without having to pay for a home
> >>phone I don't use, and then put that money towards my mobile, or VoIP.
> >>
> >>It doesn't help, either, when some ISP's billing/login systems are
> >>linked to your phone number.
> >>
> >>The best I found, when I looked a year ago, was a 2nd tier (I think
> >>that's the term) provider, who quoted me something over $500/month (of
> >>which $20 probably goes to Telstra anyway!)
> >>
> >>That rant aside, I've used PC to PC VoIP a little bit, and found it to
> >>work really well - applications like Skype and Firefly are easy to set
> >>up, use relatively little bandwidth, and have excellent audio quality.
> >>Family friends have used VoIP for calling people in the UK, and are very
> >>impressed with it.
> >>
> >>Steve.
> >>
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