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Old 27-10-2007, 14:25
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Does anybody have experience of using Skype Pro? Good or bad?

Or are there any companies you can recommend?

I am going to use it for most of my outgoing UK calls.
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Old 27-10-2007, 17:25
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I've said it dozens of times before, why on earth do you want to pay Skype for outgoing calls at their extortionate rates when you can use many other VOIP providers far cheaper, often free?
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Old 27-10-2007, 18:16
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Cheers CitySlicker, but do you have a recommendation for which one to use?

I know I could do an internet search, but I find recommendations from people here are a better bet.

Thanks!
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Old 28-10-2007, 10:10
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Old 28-10-2007, 12:39
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www.voipfone.co.uk - good for business use
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Old 25-11-2007, 09:46
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Read this text on this link given earlier :

Further Note: In the past few months we have received numerous requests from users of the Betamax VoIP services to help with unauthorized credit card charges from this company. We CANNOT help you. Just as they will never respond to any requests / emails from you they also do not respond to our requests to facilitate. It also appears that they have even shut down the only Forum for advice and complaints on Voipbusters website.


Beware ! Many of these VOIP companies operate under one umbrella, often a fact unknown to their customers.

Thats another reason why i stick to Skype. No problems at all with them.
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Old 25-11-2007, 17:52
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Never had any problems with payments with any of the Betamax products.

Skype is too much of a kids toy for me, the grown ups use grown up VoIP services.
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Old 25-11-2007, 17:53
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No problems at all with Skype blueboy? What about the two severe outages they've had this year?

In any game there's always going to be dubious outfits, but people like Sipgate have been established years with many thousands of satisfied customers, receiving a far cheaper and better featured service than Skype offers.
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Old 22-12-2007, 23:25
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No problems at all with Skype blueboy? What about the two severe outages they've had this year?

In any game there's always going to be dubious outfits, but people like Sipgate have been established years with many thousands of satisfied customers, receiving a far cheaper and better featured service than Skype offers.
Virgin Media had a severe outage this week too. It can happen to any company. I love Skype, its my choice and has never once let me down. I use the skypephone from 3 so i am mobile and have an always on connection to Skype. Fantastic service and one many freinds, families and the many contacts i now have use mainly FREE.
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Old 24-12-2007, 16:35
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Virgin Media had a severe outage this week too. It can happen to any company. I love Skype, its my choice and has never once let me down. I use the skypephone from 3 so i am mobile and have an always on connection to Skype. Fantastic service and one many freinds, families and the many contacts i now have use mainly FREE.
Yes outages can happen to any company, but Skype have been particularly bad at providing services. You quote Virgin's outage, which lasted several hours and only affected parts of their network. Skype went down for DAYS in August and affected ALL of its network. They also had problems calling PSTN customers for almost a week back in April, and this is supposed to be an established stable company. Additionally, some customers with certain 020 numbers had to change them since they failed to negotiate renewing their lease, meaning up to 10,000 customers have to change their numbers!

The truth is Skype is really playing at being a VOIP provider. Their traffic works on a P2P basis so relies on calls being able to be distributed across its user base. There is no direct connection with their server unless you want to call a PSTN number. This all means under-investment in their own equipment leading to sub-standard services.

The 3/Skype spin is very clever. You're not actually using Skype between your handset and 3 at all, you're actually using a normal mobile line. Skype and 3 went into a lucrative deal to market this, but the best thing about it is 3 can give you a service that you believe is cheaper, when in actualities you're being charged similar amounts as before except this time 3 won't give you any assurances over quality of services.

Given the proven unreliability of Skype, its increased costs above most other providers on calls, their charges for extras that others provide for free as standard (such as a geographical incoming line), and their under-investment on their own network since they rely on sharing calls on everyone with the software installed (remember that if you're being traffic shaped, Skype uses your connection whether you're making a call or not); I'd sooner go for any other proper SIP-based provider before buying into the Skype hype any time.
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Old 14-01-2008, 20:40
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Skype is too much of a kids toy for me, the grown ups use grown up VoIP services.
Amen to that

Anyway this is a VOIP forum - Skype is not VOIP
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Old 07-02-2008, 17:04
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Never had any problems with payments with any of the Betamax products.

Skype is too much of a kids toy for me, the grown ups use grown up VoIP services.
I use Skype for 3 or 4 hours of conference calls a week, and find it perfect for my WFH requirements. All my calls have a US Freephone number which I can use, so all my conf. calls are free. I'm not using it as a kid's toy!
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Old 07-03-2008, 21:35
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Ive just recently opened a skype pro account, With the understanding that ide recieve a phone number to give to people, To get in touch with me, Ive not been given a number, It seems this is a regular thing, People signing up and not getting any number, I feel ive been ripped off, I paid instantly with paypal when signing up, And should of instantly got the service i paid for, Ill use my credit up, And get rid useless bas**rds
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Old 09-03-2008, 11:14
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http://www.voip.co.uk
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Old 10-03-2008, 22:34
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Ive just recently opened a skype pro account, With the understanding that ide recieve a phone number to give to people, To get in touch with me, Ive not been given a number, It seems this is a regular thing, People signing up and not getting any number, I feel ive been ripped off, I paid instantly with paypal when signing up, And should of instantly got the service i paid for, Ill use my credit up, And get rid useless bas**rds
you have to ''buy'' a number from skype. £8 for a year mine was.
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Old 19-03-2008, 09:16
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No problems at all with Skype blueboy? What about the two severe outages they've had this year?

In any game there's always going to be dubious outfits, but people like Sipgate have been established years with many thousands of satisfied customers, receiving a far cheaper and better featured service than Skype offers.
There's also the issue with their 020 7870 having to be cut off.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11...pe_down_again/
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Old 25-03-2008, 02:41
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I recommend Voipfone
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