Tesco VOIP

danbhardy · 16 February 2006 at 6:17PM

Have just bought a Tesco VOIP setup (well bought 2 in fact cos will be living in 2 seperate houses soon) and i must say its a good setup. The phones are £20 each or 2 for £30 and with each phone you get £5 credit, which is quite good considering the following prices:

Calls to standard Land Lines: 2p pm
Calls to mobiles: 10p pm

Calls to standard international land lines: 2p pm (25 countries, see bottom of post)
Calls to mobiles (usa, canada, china & singapore): 2p pm
Calls to mobiles (the other 21 countries): see website http://www.tescointernetphone.com/about/rates/08_call_rates/

Calls to other Tesco Internet Phone numbers are free.
Calls to voicemail are free.

visit the link above for more detailed charges :j

pricefighter · 16 February 2006 at 6:37PM

Correct link for all rates is http://www.tescointernetphone.com/about/rates

Some call rates look expensive to me compared to 1899/18185,etc and some of the other cheap VOIP providers .

But calls to 0845 less then 1p a minute at all times.

Calls to 0870 2p a minute at all times.

BexTech · 16 February 2006 at 6:43PM

Tesco VOIP doesn't look good at all to me. But then I've been happily getting free calls for over 10 months.

Browntoa · 16 February 2006 at 6:54PM

calls to standard landline from BT is only 5.5 p PER HOUR off peak

BexTech · 16 February 2006 at 6:57PM

Or free via Primus 2

Graham1 · 17 February 2006 at 12:28AM

Any system which uses a USB connected telephone handset like this (and therefore only works when the computer is switched on) is always going to be a lot less convenient than the services that work with SIP type telephone to IP adapters (that only need you to leave the router powered on and work independently of the computer).

However the 0870 rates do look good for anybody who has no alternative to calling those numbers.

Vole_2 · 5 March 2006 at 7:56PM

The Tesco IP phone is a Yealink USB-P1K.

http://www.yealink.com/en/products.asp?TypeName=USB%20Phone&cTypeName=USB%B5%E7%BB%B0

If you want to use it with Skype or other IP phone providers the software to do so is on the manufacturers website:

http://www.yealink.com/en/skypedown.asp
http://www.yealink.com/en/otherdown.asp

Tested & works fine with Skype.

PNEfan · 26 March 2006 at 1:14PM

Pricefighter said

Calls to 0870 2p a minute at all times.

I just went to the link and it says 3.95p per minute for 0870 numbers.

hurrah · 26 March 2006 at 1:19PM

PNEfan wrote:

Pricefighter said

I just went to the link and it says 3.95p per minute for 0870 numbers.

It did originaly say 2p,they must have put it up.Or got it wrong.

madnlooney · 26 March 2006 at 9:16PM

i use cheapviop.com they have free calls to landlines and to alot of international countries. i got a usb adaptor too which allows u to plug ur home phone into it and use that to eather call over the viop or on your normal phoneline.

stoneyman · 1 April 2006 at 12:31AM

I use the Tesco Phone with Internetcalls.com £8.25 sign up for free calls to landlines in 40 countries. You must spend the money within 120 days. I got my drivers from here http://www.yamamoto-group.co.uk/index.php?page=download

Tesco is very poor value but with one amazing exception. UAE calls are 2p a minute. Martin's cheapest listed to the UAE are 5p a minute.

Tesco VOIP

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