Setting up a Home Business Int Calling Options / Video Conf - AU, Greece, South Africa

A bit of a left field thing.

My mum who is retired, is toying with restarting her tourism business

She currently has a $10/month mobile with Amaysim i setup for her (and pay) - latley, she regularly eats more than the 1GB data, and some months is now $30/30 days for 3GB of data. So

I am thinking of getting her the 5 GB / month woolworths plan for $20 per month. Quite a good deal from reading it. The issue with woolwroths is she will now need to call o/seas quite a bit and the telstra rates suck, compared to amaysim/optus for at least South Africa.

She uses WhatsApp quite a bit to call, but often she has to call government related entities / visas etc and need landlines / mobiles direct.

Calling destinations are: Australia, Greece, South Africa. Au is covered by (Say) the Woolworths plan (or maybe Boost?).

What are the options:
* A softphone that runs on the android phone? Something that can call mobiles and landlines in these locaitons cheap? Need to be low cost. Calls can be long. Needs to be high quality voice. Will be sporadic use, so a higher cost month to month plan is probably not going to work.

  • Video conference - I was just goign to use the free Zoom. I doubt she would need more than one face at a time. or use WhatsApp.

  • A soft number in Greece and or South Africa that rings her mobile (or softphone app) for return calls.

There is no landline (I won't let that happen ;) — There is no NBN. They are on wireless internet and 12/1 is fast enough.

Comments

  • If you get this boost plan, https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/479189
    you get this:

    UNLIMTED STND CALLS &
    TEXT TO 25 SELECTED
    DESTINATIONS:
    Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada,
    Chile, China, Colombia,
    France, Germany, Hong Kong,
    India, Indonesia, Ireland,
    Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand,
    Pakistan, Philippines,
    Singapore, South Africa, South
    Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United
    Kingdom, USA, Vietnam
    PLUS 1200 STND MIN &
    TEXT TO 30 SELECTED
    DESTINATIONS:
    Afghanistan, America Samoa,
    Brunei, Cambodia, Cyprus,
    Czech Republic, Denmark,
    Finland, Greece, Guam,
    Hungry, Iceland, Iran, Iraq,
    Israel, Kuwait, Laos,
    Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico,
    Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Peru,
    Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovak
    Republic, Spain,
    Sri Lanka, Sweden

    • That is perfect. Covers RSA + Greece in the 1200 minutes(20 hours). I assume "STD" calls include mobiles.

      Havea applied for a $2 sim direct from Boost (not worth the hassle with BigW). Will then setup and port. Just realised the next bill cycle for amaysim is tomorrow ! bugger, will swap over half way through the month.

      Now to solve for the remote virtual landlines/local numbers calling back this way.

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