cheap landline to mobile divert

namiles

I knowthis topic has kinda been covered however it did not supply the solution I was looking for and try as I might I have not been able to find a diversion cost from landline to mobile or indeed call rate from landline to mobile wthin the UK of less than 7pence a minute.
I have got a landline on my mobile now, but still get charged 8pence a minute plus a small monthly fee, while some may think that is reasonable charge, I can call mobiles in the following countries for less - USA 1p a min, Kenya 5p a min, China 5p a min, Peru 5p a min, Latvia 5p a min, Australia 4p a minute, even Iraq is 4p a min so cannot believe that no one out there can offer a better deal than 7p a minute to ring a UK mobile from a UK landline!
Trawling through the internet has been fruitless, most charge about 12p a minute.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

77301773

I am in a similar situation. We need a low cost divert to mobile for up to 2 hours at a time when away from home because it is not possible to connect a landline at my other location I need this occasionally for work and something like 12p a minute would be £14.40 and considering 2 hours work is only £12 I'd be working for nothing and I can only take work calls on a landline number.

I could use a softphone on a laptop with a dongle again removing divert costs but then there's call quality issues and unreliability.

Sipgate offer a free landline number but it's 9.9p per minute to call.

I did find one provider that offered a free geographic number and was doing divert to Vodafone peak and off peak at 2p per min but they have now upped the price so am searching yet again. I had thought of using a sip enabled wifi phone and one of the 3 mifi dongles that way there would be no divert costs involved but the 3 coverage is not yet recommended in the other area I wish to use it so no good at the moment.

Similarly I'm endlessly searching and finding nothing less than around 7p and it is extremely frustrating. I'm happy to divert to any mobile network but the cost has to be low to make it worth while.

There has to be a provider that lets you have a free landline number to divert to a mobile at a cheaper cost as lots of people need to do this.

All I'm looking for is a service that provides a free geographic number and low cost (around 2p-4p a min) divert costs. As you say it is ridiculous that you can't call within your own country for less than it does to reach some far flung corners of the world!

benjus

A couple of options to look into:

1. O2's mobile landline service: http://www.o2.co.uk/sme/businessservices/o2fixednumberanywhere

2. (for large call volumes) Buy a SIP/GSM gateway such as the PORTech MV-370, connect it to your internet connection, configure it for your VoIP number (e.g. SipGate) and insert a SIM card that gives you cheap calls to your mobile - some networks give cheap or even free calls to other users on the same network. Alternatively, you could get an PSTN/GSM gateway to divert from a normal landline to a mobile - but the idea is the same.

77301773

The O2 thing is for business users I think so it would mean taking a mobile contract. What I'm using is for personal use so need something different to transfer calls to my mobile from a virtual 01xxx number.

GSM gateways seems hugely expensive, and I only want to divert a landline style number to a mobile for low cost not bothered about connecting a gateway to the internet. The internet access will be used via a dongle when away to work. It's just the phone side of it that's the issue.

I know there's probably nothing out there that allows cheap divert as such but it's worth keeping a look out. I just can't afford silly prices per hour if it's circa 12p per min, and it's just not possible to get a landline fitted by bt at the other location, so diverting is the only way. Just wish someone else would come up with a low cost version of this, but I can't find anywhere else that does this for 2-4p per min during the day.

77301773

I can only get "mini fring" on my phone so not able to use fring for phone calls, and again there's the mobile data issue.

Sipgate charge 9.9p per min to divert to mobile so a 60 min call is £5.94 this will soon mount up. If I did this for 10 hours a week whilst working away from a fixed landline it would be almost £60 it's just far too expensive and would be like working for nothing.

I did hear of somewhere that was offering free virtual 01xxx numbers that you then add calling credit to and the divert cost was between 2p & 6p per min peak and a more reasonable 1.5p per min to mobiles at eve and weekend but have been unable to find it on line as yet.

That sort of price is more like it and a lot more manageable.

There was NooMobile once that when you texted to a number it charged £5 to your mobile then it put a landline number directly onto your mobile but that seems to have disappeared as can't find that anymore.

Hey ho will continue searching........

77301773

At last!!!!! A new service starting in May... You have a landline number sim card that works in an unlocked mobile (3g one) it is a mobile number not aasociated with having a traditional mobile (07xxx) number. You can choose any uk area code and that will be your mobile number..

It only costs 2.5p to receive calls and you can call locally within your area code ie only dial the 6 or 7 digits without having to dial 01xxx etc like on a normal mobile, and people calling you from the same area code dial your mobile landline number by just the same as they would a normal landline - no area code needed.

Costs £4.95 a month line rental but looks like a great alternative to diverting landlines to mobiles at silly prices per minute.

Have ordered mine ready to give it a go.

Cost of sim and first months charge to start with then £4.95 a month plus call charges.

www.anvilmobile.co.uk

billsavings

Your not allowed to post your Flextel referal code/affiliate link.Against site rules.;)

jhp

http://www.net-telco.net/ will supply you with a free 01/02 number and divert to mobile for 4p a minute.

77301773

Have used net-telco before. The problem with them is that they seem to change charging rates each month, and also they start charging as soon as you hear the ringing out tone even before calls are answered - you shouldn't have to pay to listen to a ringing out tone, charging should commence once a call is answered not while waiting for it to answer. It may be a simple programming error but I stopped using then for that reason.