A sort of sideways work-around for GV post-Obi...maybe ??
giqcass:
I think you are just reading the outgoing rates incorrectly. Pay as you go with no subscription to the US48 is 1/2 cent per minute. With a subscription it can be as little as 1/10 of a cent per minute.
$0.005 and $0.001 respectively. Hawaii and Alaska are higher rates.
http://www.localphone.com/call/united_states
Now for the incoming part. As I said before you only pay for incoming calls if you forward them to another telephone. If you use an ATA device like the Obi to receive the call then it is free for incoming.
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What you’ll pay
To receive calls on your phone you pay our low call rates E.g. If you’re in Spain and your family call you from the United States, you pay our Spanish rates for the duration of the call.
But forward calls to our Internet Phone and it’s free to talk
If you forward an IpKall number to Localphone sip uri you can avoid the setup fee and the monthly cost they mention below. The setup fees and monthly cost refer to when you buy a phone number from Localphone directly. Those fees are also very reasonable should you ever want to dump Ipkall for any reason.
http://www.localphone.com/services/incoming_numbers
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Set up and monthly costs
There's a small monthly rental charge and a one-off set up cost. Plus you can cancel at any time.
As I said before I wouldn't switch my incoming to Localphone anyway if you already have a reliable incoming route. Don't fix what isn't broke!
vtsnaab:
Thanks Again Gigcass !!
I haven't yet settled upon a replacement incoming route - have been leaning strongly towards FutureFive as it looks very good to me - but also towards Voip.ms or Localphone.
Here's why I got an IPKall #:
I used IPKall as a forwarding number to a free CC account & VM to try and get away from the GV VM when they started with the more restrictive 'security' stuff - and it didn't totally work - so essentially I have an IPKall # I can use for something else if desired.
Thanks very much for the LP info - I really had trouble finding concise info at their site !!!
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