Dodo's Pendo "Buddy Box" cheap VoIP-based landline alternative $9.90/Mon / Data @ $10.00 / 1 GB

IVI on 17/05/2014 - 17:49
Last edited 19/05/2014 - 20:32

Looking for a way to pay 29 cents for untimed normal local calls?

Want an incoming landline tel. no. without the cost of a landline service?

Is a 29 cent flagfall + 29 cents / main OK for the few mobile calls you absolutely MUST make, each month?

If all your calls - each month - "fit" into $10.00, given the above rates, you'll never need to pay more for your calls.

('forgot the rates for national & international calls… Get from Dodo.)

Are you a low-to-medium user of Mobile Internet data? & is $10 / GB an acceptable price for all of hour mobile Internet data?

Then this might be useful for you. (I must hedge: Read reviews before buying this service.)

Here's how it works, AFAIK (Be sure to confirm with Dodo before ordering):

  1. Pay for a "[Pendo] "Buddy Box" + $25.00 (S+H) + $9.90 (for 1st month)
    Get 50 MB & an incoming landline tel. no. (labeled as a VoIP no.?)

  2. Be prepared for excess costs for the month's data usage ( a 0.01 / MB ), in "slots of 1 GB, costing $10 each"

Each month's minutes cost is $9.90, Excess data usage Can make it rise by $10 / GB.

Oh, the price of Buddy Box varies with contract length:

1 mon : $178
12 mon : $99
24 mon : $49
36 Mon : $ 0

Has anyone got direct experience with this Dodo service?

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  • IVI on 17/05/2014 - 17:58
    +1

    Help: After well over an hour on the phone with Dodo's sales help-desk in the Philippines, I couldn't get any clear answer to the Q:

    What is the mobile internet data "block size"? (If I use 1 KB / hour, at the start of every hour of a single day… by how much will my data quota or piurchased GB drop?

    (If it's by 24 KB, I'll have one… for 36 months, maybe.)

  • c64 on 18/05/2014 - 09:04
    +1

    29c for untimed is not really cheap, neither is 29c/min for mobile numbers

    • IVI on 19/05/2014 - 20:43

      I fixed a typo in OP (50 MB replaces 50 GB).

      I think the offer is OK for those who don't want to pay for a landline. They'd have to pay by the minute to ring a normal, local number, otherwise.

      Getting $10.00 towards such local calls seems OK. Paying $10.00 per 1 GB thereafter also seems OK.

      Why isn't this a cheaper way to get a landline & a few local calls PLUS 1 GB… in a portable (around AU, provided you have Coda service there).

      $19.90 / Mon for untimed local calls + 1 GB seems better than a mobile or a wired fixed line (maybe for renters, students, et al. planning to move soon). No installation fees (unlike landline service).

      Who can beat this offer for local calls + mobile Internet data?

      If the Box runs, eg, on 12 V DC, it may be possible to add a battery or connection to car's battery, to make it work in a mobile area.

    • IVI on 19/05/2014 - 20:52

      It seems cheap to me a, is, when entire monthly cost is under $20.00 (or under $10.00 / Mon if you don't need the 1 GB of data, some months).

      Of course, I haven't heard quality of the VoIP service, using Voda N/W.
      This quality, that of Voda's network & block size for data are the -unknowns-.

      If they promise more than they deliver, TIO is an option.

      How to get their Critical Info Summary for this offering?

  • hashtagbargain on 18/05/2014 - 10:15
    +1

    So glad you didn't post this as a bargain.

    • IVI on 19/05/2014 - 20:44

      Why?

  • [Deactivated] on 18/05/2014 - 16:09

    Dodo = fail… this is a well known fact. If you happen to be one of the few people who get cheap ADSL without dropouts that is fast enough to be considered usable you are lucky.

    • IVI on 19/05/2014 - 20:47

      I hope I made clear that the Buddy Box connects via mobile Internet.
      They say its antenna is for both WiFi in the home & for Mobile I'net to voda's network.

      Buy a Buddy Box elsewhere & you can likely join & cancel when you will, eg, no monthly cost when you're overseas, etc.

    • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2014 - 11:12

      I'm not sure if this counts, but I'm with Clubtelco ADSL2+ and on their Dodo infrastructure, they use both Telstra and Dodo, they somehow put me on Dodo, I thought I was unlucky because of the bad Dodo reputation. However my internet is fine, 17mbps all the time and doesn't dropout, I wish it'd be the maximum 24mbps, but I'm not sure who can actually get that.

  • c64 on 21/05/2014 - 11:42

    if it uses mobile internet, couldn't you do all this from your mobile phone. very cheap voip service providers exist (eg https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/voip_telecube 55c/month did & 10c untimed fixed calls, 7.9c/min mobile calls).

    why do you want a fixed line when it could effectively be mobile?

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