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Got cable? Use the phone too? Get 1899 VoIP and save over £120 a year
http://www.call1899.co.uk/voip.php
1899 offer a VoIP service. Using 1899 is one of the cheapest ways to make calls. As 1899 offer a VoIP service this means you can ditch your landline and instead use your PC to make phonecalls. Using a PC to make phonecalls is abit poor, but if you combine this with a SIP phone and are able to configure things properly (it's not THAT hard) you will be able to afford to get rid of your landline.
Getting rid of your landline will mean you no longer have a landline number to recieve calls. You can pick up a free landline number from https://www.sipgate.co.uk and other places offer them for a small fee. I'm looking into how the SIPgate number can be used with the 1899 VoIP service, but if only using your PC to make calls I guess you can just connect both the SIptel and the 1899 software to recieve and make calls. If you have a hardphone you should be able to configure it like this.
So , if you have cable, no more BT or cable phoneline rental charges, calls can be just as cheap VoIP.
Making the switch to VoIP may turn out to be a tricky process but clearly as providers like 1899 are starting to offer VoIP services it's definately in your interests monitarily to switch. This will of course depend on what the reactivation fee is on your phoneline, but it's at least worth testing the water for a couple of months without disconnecting your landline as afterall it's free to do so.
Anyone know of a cheap place to pick up a Sipphone in the UK? The only ones I've dealt with are American.
1899 offer a VoIP service. Using 1899 is one of the cheapest ways to make calls. As 1899 offer a VoIP service this means you can ditch your landline and instead use your PC to make phonecalls. Using a PC to make phonecalls is abit poor, but if you combine this with a SIP phone and are able to configure things properly (it's not THAT hard) you will be able to afford to get rid of your landline.
Getting rid of your landline will mean you no longer have a landline number to recieve calls. You can pick up a free landline number from https://www.sipgate.co.uk and other places offer them for a small fee. I'm looking into how the SIPgate number can be used with the 1899 VoIP service, but if only using your PC to make calls I guess you can just connect both the SIptel and the 1899 software to recieve and make calls. If you have a hardphone you should be able to configure it like this.
So , if you have cable, no more BT or cable phoneline rental charges, calls can be just as cheap VoIP.
Making the switch to VoIP may turn out to be a tricky process but clearly as providers like 1899 are starting to offer VoIP services it's definately in your interests monitarily to switch. This will of course depend on what the reactivation fee is on your phoneline, but it's at least worth testing the water for a couple of months without disconnecting your landline as afterall it's free to do so.
Anyone know of a cheap place to pick up a Sipphone in the UK? The only ones I've dealt with are American.
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