Tesco Internet Phone Questions

magnolia_2

Today I bought 2 tesco internet phones for 1p each after seeing someone on another forum telling us they were going through the tills at that.

Am I being toatally stupid or have I understood it properly that I can send 1 to my daughter in New Zealand and then we can talk to each other for free using them?

Has anybody any experience using these abroad?

Would be glad to hear anybodies experiences before I pay to send it out there to her.

Thanks in advance.

BexTech

Yes, you can send one to New Zealand.

As long as your daughter has broadband and is connected up, then calls to each other are free. In fact she could set up the account with a local UK phone number, so people who don't have VoIP can call her using the local UK number and she'd be able to take the call just as if she was sitting in the UK and the person making the call would be only charged as if calling a local UK number - often no charge if have inclusive calls package.

VoIP doesn't care where you are in the world as long as you have it connected up to broadband.

You could be sitting in your Spanish villa and make and take calls as if you were at home in the UK and no one would know any difference.

I have various UK numbers, German number, USA number, Irish number, Italian number, Romanian number, did have Dutch number (but rules on that changed) yet sit here in the UK and take calls on them, when over in Spain, Germany, USA I just plug the ATA into a router (I don't use Tesco as for calls to landlines they along with Skype are the dearer players - but for calls between them not bad as no charge) and then it appears if I'm still in the UK and I use the phone as if in the UK - if people are on the same VoIP provider as myself or one with peering agreements then calls are free - I also have free calls to landlines up to so many minutes per week.