rackcatt

Looking for a line rental, broadband and good international calling rate to UK..so far its between Telstra or I Primus ??? any others ...??

Jon77

Try Skype, its free.

Ravvers

You can find cheap international calling cards on www.phonecardselector.com.au

It compares the best cards on the market and shows your the price and how many mins. you get. I bought one for $10 and it got me 100s of mins to the UK and expires after 3 months I think.

h2oskineil

Make sure you have unlimited local calls on your home phone package..... Get a Skype out number @ $9.99 for Unlimited calls to Europe.

Each number on your favourite list gets a unique local number which you dial and the phone rings in the UK...... unlimited time for $9.99.
My wife has at least 1 hour per day to her mum and has done for the last 6 years.

steve_kelly_and_boys

hi

we use TPG unlimited broadband and line rental for $60 i believe international phone calls are 2c a min although i am not 100% sure of this as we use our mobiles

we have our mobiles with TPG as well who use optus for $30 a month no contract sim only you get $600 worth of calls per month international included and another $400 for calls TPG TO TPG

we phone and text all the time to the u.k and have never got even close to using all of our allowance

they also do cheaper mobile deals as well

DadAgain

I dont pay for phone calls....

$5 a month VOIP costs (mynetfone [whirlpool netsaver plan]) covers all our calls locally and to UK.

rackcatt

thanks guys..we use skype all the time thats what is killing the bills we first had with wifi telstra, then moved to optus at $3 a day unlimited !!
but just thought maybe cheaper to have broadband rather than wifi...
we have $30 a month mobiles..get $150 credit..but may go with TPG .hear lot about them

GarryP

You can get a Sipgate number in the UK. Then people in the UK can call a UK number and get you in Australia, and you can call out in the UK at 1p per minute.

stuart.and.michelle

Try and see if vivid wireless is available in your area. Costs around $300 for the box but then its only $92 per month. That covers you for unlimited broadband, free local calls, and free calls to the uk and 7 other countries. Can't remember what those were though. Been using it for over a year and its been great.

coldbeer

I use Pennytel VOIP, no monthly costs and 8c per call to the UK, unlimited time. Also have a sipgate number in the UK, which was free too - mum in law dials a local number in her home town and our phone rings - she only pays local call cost, which she thinks is magic.

renth

I use Pennytel too, 8c untimed is pretty damn good.

Swerv-o

I use the voice and video chat client that is now part of GMail - It's very cheap - I loaded my Google account up with a whole $10 of credit months ago, and still have $6.22 left on it, having used it a lot to call both overseas and locally. it really saves messing about with calling cards etc, and allows you to just dial the number directly. You do need a reasonably fast network connection though - It's very choppy in my GF's Unwired system.


S

In Exile

we got rid of our landline ages ago. The only real people we were calling on it were UK based family, and they all had computers/iphones/whatnot.

Now I just use either Skype (on the laptop & phone) or Viber (on the phone) to call them, and it just costs data - which is more than covered on both boradband and mobile.

I do have Skype credit in case I need to call landlines in the UK. The credit hardly ever goes down. I think I've used a dollar in a year, and did make quite a few calls to UK landlines whilst buying a house.

irishbloo

Can this be used for Ireland as well.

GarryP

Don't think so.

They hand out UK number, and I don't think there is a Sipgate Ireland.

Also they check you geolocation whenyou sign up, so you have to look like you are in the UK to get a UK number.