You get: $20 credit, 2 phone line adaptor, Panasonic digital cordless phone, a number people can call you on, 100 free local/national calls a month
It costs you: $19.95 and signing up to a $9.95 a month Megasaver plan.
VOIP deal - $20 credit + 2 phone line adaptor + Panasonic digital cordless for $19.95+$9.95/mth
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This deal is meant for people who do not have VOIP, or who's VOIP plan is not so good (mind your exit costs though).
It's a very cheap and easy way to get into VOIP. If you have a spare phone, it also gives you two lines quickly. …
(ie you can make two calls at a time … you need to get the direct in dial numbers as extras or through a plan if you want to receive calls)It's the start of dropping one's phone bills quite a bit.
I have never used a VOIP service, what is the quality like? are they like calling cards? or as good as land lines?
I got the other deal that I mentioned. Same as this, but no cordless phone and no $9.95 plan. I'm trying out VoIP at the moment … deciding if I want to go ahead with it.
At the moment, I'm sufficiently impressed to go ahead.
This package was very easy to set up. I have a spare cordless phone so I plugged that into it. I think I have a spare regular phone around somewhere, so I'll plug that in too, when I find it.
I didn't need to do any configuration, fiddle with software, worry about my firewall etc. Very simple.
No need to type in a card code. No need to use software or the computer. I just dial in the telephone. Very easy. I like that. It also means I don't have to teach anyone else in the house how to use it (eg parents, siblings, guests). Just point them to the phone :P
Call quality. I've only made a few calls. One of the three had a tiny bit of roughness to the sound. The other person reported a very faint echo of themselves about a half a second behind what they said. But we could understand each other fine; those quality issues didn't affect the call.
Another couple of nifty features are:
- instantaneous billing (you can see your calls and call charges after you finish them, by logging onto MyNetFone)
- SMS (log onto MyNetFone and you can type up and send SMS. I think it's $0.15 an SMS)If you use broadband, have $20 you can spare, a credit card and a spare telephone, you might want to get the other phone like I did and try it out for yourself.
Since I went with the $0.00 minimum a month plan, I think my local and national calls are $0.125 untimed and my overseas calls are cheap. (Just called a friend overseas who was out. Left a message. $0.025 cost)
Note: they do want you to authorise them to direct debit from your card. If you have a problem with that, then this may not be for you.
:)
Step two will be to then wind back my landline plan to something basic like Telstra's HomeLine Budget.
I still need a landline to receive faxes, and it's even recommended on MyNetFone, somewhere, to keep a landline for emergencies. But at least it'll be about $20.00 a month instead of much more, and the calls will be cheaper going through MyNetFone too.
If anyone knows of a cheaper, reliable home line plan, please do feel free to comment.
The adaptor is network locked plus they do it only if u sign up on a direct debit on ur credit card !! :(