Buying Obi110 in Europe and call forwarding on PSTN line
Stewart:
Quote from: carl on May 29, 2012, 06:16:47 pm
Localphone- which I use a lot- would forward your friend's calls to the French land line for 1.4c/min and from there you go for free to the cell phone. Their call quality is somewhat less than Callcentric's but definitely acceptable if you are on budget and they offer a ton of interesting things useful for an international person.
Thanks for posting this. I had specifically not mentioned Localphone, because the last time I tried this (fowarding a US DID to Italy Wind mobile), they would send the caller ID as 10 digits, rather than 11.
That caused three problems. The initial digits of the area code would be interpreted by the mobile as a country code and the number would be parsed and displayed in a confusing format. The number would not be matched with the corresponding contact list entry. And finally, you couldn't use the phone's call history to return a call.
However, before posting BS, I just did another test (US DID to France Orange mobile) and the Android phone showed +1775xxxxxxx, as it should. So, it appears that the problem has been fixed.
fuli42:
Thank you Stewart and Carl for the replies! Looks like a great community here!
Right now our adsl provider is OVH France. They offer unlimited calls to mobile only through an analog telephone connected to their ADSL modem. In fact the "PSTN line" is a SIP account, that you can only use through the PSTN line on their modem. Call-forwarding is not included, it costs 0.05 euros ($0.062) per minute.
I think Orange have an option for unlimited calls with their ADSL offers and it includes call forwarding as well. Stewart, do you have any info in this? If so I could switch to Orange, forward all my VOIP calls to the landline and then forward them to my mobile.
My VOIP provider is again OVH and I opened another account with ephone.hu for a Hungarian phone number. I'm looking to get US number to use with my American colleagues but for the moment skype suffices.
So my options are either swith to Orange and get free forwarding, swallow the 0.05euros for transfers (or use one of the cheaper providers that you mentioned) or use the Obi but lose the caller ID.
carl:
Quote from: fuli42 on May 30, 2012, 07:15:30 am
Thank you Stewart and Carl for the replies! Looks like a great community here!
Right now our adsl provider is OVH France. They offer unlimited calls to mobile only through an analog telephone connected to their ADSL modem. In fact the "PSTN line" is a SIP account, that you can only use through the PSTN line on their modem. Call-forwarding is not included, it costs 0.05 euros ($0.062) per minute.
I think Orange have an option for unlimited calls with their ADSL offers and it includes call forwarding as well. Stewart, do you have any info in this? If so I could switch to Orange, forward all my VOIP calls to the landline and then forward them to my mobile.
My VOIP provider is again OVH and I opened another account with ephone.hu for a Hungarian phone number. I'm looking to get US number to use with my American colleagues but for the moment skype suffices.
So my options are either swith to Orange and get free forwarding, swallow the 0.05euros for transfers (or use one of the cheaper providers that you mentioned) or use the Obi but lose the caller ID.
That's what I was afraid of. Usually,those broadband bundle offers overseas involve their VOIP lines.
BTW. Localphone has till the end of May- thus tomorrow is the last day!) DID's ( incoming numbers) in different
countries with no sign up fees. Since they need about half a day to validate your call credit you should act immediately on that. I found that the call quality on their incoming numbers is generally better than on the outgoing calls and e.g. my DID in Netherlands provides without exception a near land line quality.
What you also can do is to get a US DID from Localphone and forward it to your French cell phone for 6.9 c/min which considered the exchange rate is about the same as the 5 eurocent OVH charges you for forwarding.
Caveat : If you open an account with Localphone choose USD as currency and especially a credit card with an US billing address otherwise you will be charged VAT !
On edit : In the time I typed this, Localphone assigned me my new Belgian number. Sometimes it goes lightning fast, sometimes it takes forever.
carl:
Quote from: Stewart on May 30, 2012, 12:53:13 am
Quote from: carl on May 29, 2012, 06:16:47 pm
Localphone- which I use a lot- would forward your friend's calls to the French land line for 1.4c/min and from there you go for free to the cell phone. Their call quality is somewhat less than Callcentric's but definitely acceptable if you are on budget and they offer a ton of interesting things useful for an international person.
Thanks for posting this. I had specifically not mentioned Localphone, because the last time I tried this (fowarding a US DID to Italy Wind mobile), they would send the caller ID as 10 digits, rather than 11.
That caused three problems. The initial digits of the area code would be interpreted by the mobile as a country code and the number would be parsed and displayed in a confusing format. The number would not be matched with the corresponding contact list entry. And finally, you couldn't use the phone's call history to return a call.
However, before posting BS, I just did another test (US DID to France Orange mobile) and the Android phone showed +1775xxxxxxx, as it should. So, it appears that the problem has been fixed.
I had similar problems with different telecom providers in the US . And even where it works it would not help because I store the contacts with access codes in my cell phones and it never works like it should. On my T mobile phone, the number comes as + country code and when you make a mistake and just return the call like I once did you pay with taxes $ 2/min where I would otherwise have paid 1.5c.
Stewart:
Quote from: fuli42 on May 30, 2012, 07:15:30 am
I think Orange have an option for unlimited calls with their ADSL offers and it includes call forwarding as well. Stewart, do you have any info in this? If so I could switch to Orange, forward all my VOIP calls to the landline and then forward them to my mobile.
Sorry, I don't know. My Orange line is forwarded most of the time (I'm in France for only about three months each year) and I don't get charged for forwarded calls. However, I normally only forward to landlines. I just did a test, forwarding to my mobile. However, the "suivi conso" doesn't update in real time; I'll report tomorrow whether it shows a charge. Also, my knowledge of French (and legalese in general) is fairly weak, so I'm not sure what the CGV says on the subject (it doesn't even contain the words "renvoi" or "transfert"). If you want to look for yourself, I believe that the relevant document is http://boutique.orange.fr/doc/contrat3381.pdf .
You would probably want to also look at offers from Free and SFR, who generally are priced lower than Orange. I used to have Free ADSL and was quite satisfied with the service. However, Free never got around to installing Fiber in the building; when Orange put it in, I switched.
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