Internet to landland PAYG calls

ShineDG

Hi everyone,

Now Skype has ended, does anyone know of a good replacement company that does PAYG internet to landline calls? I have looked at Viber, but it seems they do monthly subscriptions. I don't want to subscribe monthly as i only call landlines here and there and paying every month for something i barely use would be a waste of money.

What PAYGO internet to landline companies are you guys using?

MyRealNameToo

VOIPFone do both PAYG or subscriptions

Andrews & Arnold are technically a £1.20 subscription but given its so low I'd throw it in there too

Frozen_up_north

There is an option to buy credit with Viber, which then works as a pre-paid PAYG service. I haven't used it but that seems to be one of the options with Viber.

ShineDG

MyRealNameToo said:

VOIPFone do both PAYG or subscriptions

Andrews & Arnold are technically a £1.20 subscription but given its so low I'd throw it in there too

Thank you for the info. I've never heard of Voipfone, looking it up now

ShineDG

Frozen_up_north said:

There is an option to buy credit with Viber, which then works as a pre-paid PAYG service. I haven't used it but that seems to be one of the options with Viber.

When i go to Viber i only see monthly subscription offers. I will contact them to find out more!

MyRealNameToo

ShineDG said:

MyRealNameToo said:

VOIPFone do both PAYG or subscriptions

Andrews & Arnold are technically a £1.20 subscription but given its so low I'd throw it in there too

Thank you for the info. I've never heard of Voipfone, looking it up now

Have used them for 20 years. They were more aimed at businesses than home setups but when hooking up with someone who's family is overseas and BT charging £1.35/minute for calls home you take what you can find and for me that was 2.5p/minute calls with Voipfone. 

ShineDG

MyRealNameToo said:

ShineDG said:

MyRealNameToo said:

VOIPFone do both PAYG or subscriptions

Andrews & Arnold are technically a £1.20 subscription but given its so low I'd throw it in there too

Thank you for the info. I've never heard of Voipfone, looking it up now

Have used them for 20 years. They were more aimed at businesses than home setups but when hooking up with someone who's family is overseas and BT charging £1.35/minute for calls home you take what you can find and for me that was 2.5p/minute calls with Voipfone. 

It seems that calls to UK landlines is 1p a min, - that is cheaper than Skype, which was 2.1p a min or something. So you downloaded a Voipfone app to your mobile phone and call from that?

Beachcomber_252

LocalPhone, which I discovered through MSE several years ago is the cheapest for me. 

The credit can be added in units as little as £1, and doesn't expire. VAT is added to the credit amount. E.G when you add £2 credit, you are charged £2.40. Calls to UK landlines are then charged at 0.5p a minute (effectively 0.6p per minute inc VAT). It works for me as a good backup for when my free RWG mobile minutes have run out.

The rates for calling mobiles and international numbers are pretty good too.

MyRealNameToo

ShineDG said:

MyRealNameToo said:

ShineDG said:

MyRealNameToo said:

VOIPFone do both PAYG or subscriptions

Andrews & Arnold are technically a £1.20 subscription but given its so low I'd throw it in there too

Thank you for the info. I've never heard of Voipfone, looking it up now

Have used them for 20 years. They were more aimed at businesses than home setups but when hooking up with someone who's family is overseas and BT charging £1.35/minute for calls home you take what you can find and for me that was 2.5p/minute calls with Voipfone. 

It seems that calls to UK landlines is 1p a min, - that is cheaper than Skype, which was 2.1p a min or something. So you downloaded a Voipfone app to your mobile phone and call from that?

They are a standard SIP provider so you can use "their" app or any other VOIP software you prefer. Obviously theirs is pre-setup so it's simpler but I've used a few different softwares over the years and in many of them they were a preconfigured provider.  Dont know if they've changed it but historically "their" app was just another off the shelf software just defaulted to select Voipfone. 

There is a second app which is for configuring more advanced features but you won't need that (eg have the call routed to desk phones when you're in the office but divert automatically to mobile if your mobile is outside the office)

As well as having it on your mobile you can install on a computer or have physical voip phones. Just to be aware though, having multiple devices signed in at the same time can cause behaviour issues with phone ringing on incoming calls. The proper way of dealing with it is to have extensions but they come with a charge and the problem doesnt cause issues for outbound calls nor the actual inbound call. 

ShineDG

MyRealNameToo said:

ShineDG said:

MyRealNameToo said:

ShineDG said:

MyRealNameToo said:

VOIPFone do both PAYG or subscriptions

Andrews & Arnold are technically a £1.20 subscription but given its so low I'd throw it in there too

Thank you for the info. I've never heard of Voipfone, looking it up now

Have used them for 20 years. They were more aimed at businesses than home setups but when hooking up with someone who's family is overseas and BT charging £1.35/minute for calls home you take what you can find and for me that was 2.5p/minute calls with Voipfone. 

It seems that calls to UK landlines is 1p a min, - that is cheaper than Skype, which was 2.1p a min or something. So you downloaded a Voipfone app to your mobile phone and call from that?

They are a standard SIP provider so you can use "their" app or any other VOIP software you prefer. Obviously theirs is pre-setup so it's simpler but I've used a few different softwares over the years and in many of them they were a preconfigured provider.  Dont know if they've changed it but historically "their" app was just another off the shelf software just defaulted to select Voipfone. 

There is a second app which is for configuring more advanced features but you won't need that (eg have the call routed to desk phones when you're in the office but divert automatically to mobile if your mobile is outside the office)

As well as having it on your mobile you can install on a computer or have physical voip phones. Just to be aware though, having multiple devices signed in at the same time can cause behaviour issues with phone ringing on incoming calls. The proper way of dealing with it is to have extensions but they come with a charge and the problem doesnt cause issues for outbound calls nor the actual inbound call. 

" so you can use "their" app or any other VOIP software you prefer." - what do you mean any other VOIP software? Sorry, i'm not that tech savvy! :-)

ShineDG

Beachcomber_252 said:

LocalPhone, which I discovered through MSE several years ago is the cheapest for me. 

The credit can be added in units as little as £1, and doesn't expire. VAT is added to the credit amount. E.G when you add £2 credit, you are charged £2.40. Calls to UK landlines are then charged at 0.5p a minute (effectively 0.6p per minute inc VAT). It works for me as a good backup for when my free RWG mobile minutes have run out.

The rates for calling mobiles and international numbers are pretty good too.

So say you add £2 credit, and you are charged £2.40 for including VAT, and the call rate is 0.6p a min, then is Voipfone a better deal at a call rate of 1p a min, when having £2 credit with VAT already included?