1899 offer voice over IP (VoIP) calls

digitalhen

Paul_Varjak wrote:

What? That means my new VOIP router is not gonna be a good buy! What about Voipbuster? (I'm not signed up for it though).

Yep, and my VOIP phone was definitely a bad buy 1899 is definitely not working any more. I suppose i can sell it on ebay...!

poo.

driris

my 1899 voip is not working since 28 april . i have also emailed 1899 but no response since 15 days.

anybody else is experiencing same thing?????????????

BexTech

Still working here, but not on original registered numbers, had to add new numbers for VoIP to work with.

Toxteth_OGrady

Working fine on my original registered number.

:cool:

TOG

ricahrd

I don't know what it said before but 1899 have updated their site again stating:

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Good news for our SIP/IAX (and Macintosh) users! We have managed to increase our capacity. Therefore (and in contrary to earlier notices) we will be able to support VoIP calls via alternative SIP/IAX clients.
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So it looks like you should be able to use anything you like (my SPA-2000 is still working fine).

cheers,
Richard.

BexTech

Yeah they updated to that a few days ago.

thefirs

For those that can still use it, the 1899 voip rates as per their website have just altered (p/minute rates):

UK National Calls (land lines) 1
UK mobiles (sat/sun) 2
kazakhstan (portable) 4
germany 0
albania 5
tunisia 4
kuwait 4
bahrain 9
armenia 4
maldives 5

No setup charge shown, but there are now some distinct diffences to the call rates for dialup users.

ricahrd

I have started using 18866 now as it's just 1p per call (UK) even though they state on their VoIP page that all calls are subject to a 2p connection charge (why can't they get their details correct!)

What's odd though is that the number I used for 1899 VoIP isn't being accepted by the 18866 system, even though I have it registered with both systems. All the other numbers work fine. Admittedly it's a VoIP number but is a geographic and working number. Annoying really as I don't want the CLI of the number I had to use to make it work to go through to the caller. Oh well, can't have everything I suppose.

twhitehead

Using 1899 VOIP until they provided a software 'upgrade'.

Now having to put 44 in front of UK numbers but the rate per minute to UK landlne is the same as SKYPE, so no advantage.

BexTech

I don't use their software, so have no need to dial international format.

Though at the moment, I am using VoIP Buster for free UK calls. Some people on newsgroups are reporting that VoIP Buster cuts you off after 1 minute and announces you need to buy credit, this hasn't happened to me yet.

18866 VoIP service are still only charging 1 pence per call to UK landlines. Well they were when I tested a day or two ago.