melaniee

Who do you use ??
Just tried to speak with Go talk who we have used for years to find out what number we can call when we are travelling round Australia.
The guy was in the Phillipines and had no idea about Australia and the geography.
Will get on Skype soon but not practical on the road.....

Wendy

From a mobile or landline?

Mobiles I use Vodaphone, just a prepay sim card. I can top up with $20 and it lasts a hour to a mobille (vodafone) in the UK.

Or I used to use a daybreak calling card - costs something like half a cent per minute from a landline and you can buy them from any newsagency or online (just google it)

melaniee

Landline.

Wendy

I used these to find the best deals, and also bought from them too.

http://www.ozprepaidcards.com.au/

I now use just Optus at 2.9c per minute because I can't be bothered typng all the numbers in

teza

skype. Bought Voip phone, and pay nothing calling from skype to skype (computer to computer if they are online) and bugger all calling through my computer to homephones and mobiles back in Finland (around Xmas made 7 VERY long calls for around $10 to Finnish mobiles). With good Voip phone and broadband, quality is better than calling from my mobile to the same phones. Saves me a fortune.

Kelli28

1300 GOTALK is the number to use

viviennef

I got one of those cards before I got the telstra - pay 10 dollars and get your international calls really cheaply approach

I programmed the long number in on a quick dial then all I had to do is dial the area code and number when it told me

Also with those cards you can tie them to your phone number so you dont need the number anyway and then when you are out and about you just use the number

I had a green card - was happy
Vivienne

Grayling

I use an internet phone connection.

$20 a month for broadband and unlimited landline calls anywhere in the world.

I think it is Bigpond

G

johnokiwi

We've been trying REBTEL as our modem is not VOIP enabled

Currently rate on offer is 0.013/min

Getting a new number to use for each contact takes a bit of getting used to though!

comet555

We used to use cards until I discovered the phone plan with Telstra.

We pay $10 a month for the international value pack. For this we get calls for 2 cents a minutes (plus 39 cent connection fee). We also get a $10 credit for the calls.

You can get the package for $5 a month but then you don't get any credit. So I pay the $10 because I know I'll use it.

http://www.telstra.com.au/homephone/...alue_pack.html

I just noticed it says available until June 30, 2009 (unless extended). I hope they don't cancel it!!!

I definitely pay less on this plan than I did using the phone cards, but that's just me. Also my calls are usually at least 30 minutes long so the I don't mind the connection fee too much. What I really like is no extra numbers or pins!

Jan4kids

Go Talk is the same company as Day Break.....each Capital City has it's own local access number. You'll find them on the flyer found in Post Offices etc. You just phone the local number for wherever you are, then put in your 12 digit code and away you go

Hope this helps.

teza

Well regarless of my modems, I plug in Voip Phone to laptop and get dialling through skype, if not calling from skype to skype, you just enter country code and phone number, INCLUDING area code and off you go, works perfect. My USB Voip phone is cheapie and still works well, the phone in question A-Link USB VoiP Phone.
As for Skype calling rates to normal phones from Oz http://www.skype.com/intl/en/prices/callrates/

jayr

I considered this plan but decided agains because of the followign:

1) connection fee means you can use 39c to reach an answering machine
2) I believe the $10 credit expires on a monthly basis.

Daybreak cards expire I think on a 90 day basis and have no connection fee so I find these cheaper. HAve just joined SKYPE so may use that instead from now on

comet555

Well like I said, it works for me.

I don't mind the connect fee because I'm usually on the phone for quite some time!

Yes the $10 credit/fee does expire monthly. Again, no problem for me because I made loads of calls and usually manage to charge about $20-30 in phone calls. I call both my parents several times a week (divorced) as well as my in-laws. So I definitely make use of it.

If I only used it casually I would have stuck with the phone cards as they would make more sense then.

I had a quick look at Daybreak and it appears to be 4 cents a minute during regular times. Although if you call at the off peak time 2am-6am you can get the advertised rate of 0.5 cent per minute.

DadAgain

All my phone needs are covered by our voip account:

https://www.mynetfone.com.au/offers/...neosaver-plan/

$5 a month and for that I get:
Australian Mobiles for 15c/minute
60 Free untimed calls a month (including to UK and 29 other countries) and after that:
10c Nationwide untimed
2c/minute to UK

I dont think we've ever paid for a call to UK and often chat for an hour or so with folks back home.

Of course in order to do this you need a VOIP convertor. I paid $60 for ours 3 years ago - but if I was getting one now I'd get a slightly different box so I could keep my myfoneaccount and its Australian DID number AND have a sipgate.co.uk account to get a FREE UK DID number so that folks could call me from home for a local call.