Many rate plans for international calls
Hortoristic:
I spent some time researching making UK calls from USA and although saw some that might have been cheaper - ended up going with Voip.ms. Voxbeam looked possibly better but they wanted minimum $50 investment in minutes.
Others suggested there are better companies out there for USA-->UK mobile phone plans - anyone got some great companies to point me to that they have had succes with?
I'm still not clear how voip.ms can call a UK landline for .0079 - but same company want .01 to make inside USA calls.
infin8loop:
Quote from: Hortoristic on December 22, 2011, 10:19:35 am
I'm still not clear how voip.ms can call a UK landline for .0079 - but same company want .01 to make inside USA calls.
I don't know for sure but it probably has to do with the varying termination costs incurred in different countries. Money changes hands behind the scenes between the originating carrier of a phone call and the terminating carrier of that call. Here in the states phone service seems to be taxed and fee'd to death. My traditional PSTN line is $23 for basic unmetered local service but ends up north of $40 with the myriad taxes and fees. As you may have discovered voip.ms is based in Canada. I don't recall the Canadian's dumping any tea into the harbor like our forefathers did. So perhaps they get a better deal on phone termination rates in the UK. That was our fractured fairy tale history lesson for today kids.
RonR:
That was our fractured fairy tale history lesson for today kids.
I really miss Rocky and Bullwinkle. ;D
Stewart:
"Cheap" and "good" usually don't go together. The bottom is generally the Betamax companies -- see list here http://backsla.sh/betamax (note that prices in chart are Euro cents/min.)
Next step up, look at CallWithUs and Future-Nine. Both allow control over the route; if you have trouble on a particular call, you can try a more expensive path.
Hortoristic:
So when free GV doesn't have tax and fees it sounds like.
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