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From: CJB on 23 May 2010 12:22 Three has a leaflet in its stores advertising special country flagged SIM cards - or maybe just a normal PAYG SIM card - which offers cheap international cals via a 4nn prefix code. Are these routed via Skype? The sequence of 4nn prefixes has gaps in the chronological order indicating that many more countries are included than listed. Can't find anythin on My3 or the website about these new tariffs. Are they a good deal? Or are they just to sucker folk into continue topping up? Chris B.
From: CJB on 23 May 2010 17:55 On May 23, 5:22 pm, CJB <chrisjbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Three has a leaflet in its stores advertising special country flagged > SIM cards - or maybe just a normal PAYG SIM card - which offers cheap > international cals via a 4nn prefix code. Are these routed via Skype? > The sequence of 4nn prefixes has gaps in the chronological order > indicating that many more countries are included than listed. Can't > find anythin on My3 or the website about these new tariffs. Are they a > good deal? Or are they just to sucker folk into continue topping up? > Chris B. http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/International_calling_rates
From: Theo Markettos on 23 May 2010 19:18 CJB <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On May 23, 5:22 pm, CJB <chrisjbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Three has a leaflet in its stores advertising special country flagged > > SIM cards - or maybe just a normal PAYG SIM card - which offers cheap > > international cals via a 4nn prefix code. Are these routed via Skype? > > http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/International_calling_rates I doubt they're routed via Skype... they quite possibly use VOIP in the routing but it'll be carrier-grade VOIP rather than Skype (which, despite their recent efforts, isn't really carrier-grade). But that provides another interesting possibility... for those phones which can't do Skype (iSkoot), set up a dialthrough server on a Polish landline number and then you can call for 2p/min+VOIP charges from any 3G phone. That rather beats the normal 20p/min rate on 3Pay. http://www.actio.pl/ do free Polish DID numbers (though they get deleted if not used once a month. And I have no idea what numbers they allocate). Theo
From: Steve Terry on 24 May 2010 02:48 "Theo Markettos" <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message news:Z5t*X3M-s(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk... > CJB <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On May 23, 5:22 pm, CJB <chrisjbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Three has a leaflet in its stores advertising special country flagged >> > SIM cards - or maybe just a normal PAYG SIM card - which offers cheap >> > international cals via a 4nn prefix code. Are these routed via Skype? >> >> http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/International_calling_rates > > I doubt they're routed via Skype... they quite possibly use VOIP in the > routing but it'll be carrier-grade VOIP rather than Skype (which, despite > their recent efforts, isn't really carrier-grade). > > But that provides another interesting possibility... for those phones > which > can't do Skype (iSkoot), set up a dialthrough server on a Polish landline > number and then you can call for 2p/min+VOIP charges from any 3G phone. > That rather beats the normal 20p/min rate on 3Pay. > > http://www.actio.pl/ > do free Polish DID numbers (though they get deleted if not used once a > month. And I have no idea what numbers they allocate). > Theo > > If you have a 3 Skype phone then buying some PAYG credit for Skype from Sainsburys or paypoint shops will give you international calls through Skype from 1.4p per min http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/features/prices/payg-rates and if you are a heavy user you can buy monthly rates from 69p p/m +VAT for 60mins of calls https://buy.skype.com/paymonthly/ Steve Terry -- Welcome Sign-up Bonus of �1 when you signup free at: http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/G4WWK
From: CJB on 25 May 2010 09:22
Seems an interesting Polish web site and forum - but how on earth do you read Polish?!! Chris B. Theo Markettos wrote: > CJB <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 23, 5:22 pm, CJB <chrisjbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Three has a leaflet in its stores advertising special country flagged > > > SIM cards - or maybe just a normal PAYG SIM card - which offers cheap > > > international cals via a 4nn prefix code. Are these routed via Skype? > > > > http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/International_calling_rates > > I doubt they're routed via Skype... they quite possibly use VOIP in the > routing but it'll be carrier-grade VOIP rather than Skype (which, despite > their recent efforts, isn't really carrier-grade). > > But that provides another interesting possibility... for those phones which > can't do Skype (iSkoot), set up a dialthrough server on a Polish landline > number and then you can call for 2p/min+VOIP charges from any 3G phone. > That rather beats the normal 20p/min rate on 3Pay. > > http://www.actio.pl/ > do free Polish DID numbers (though they get deleted if not used once a > month. And I have no idea what numbers they allocate). > > Theo |