Any recommended VOIP providers (UK)?

tech3475

Well-Known Member
OP
Member
Joined
Jun 12, 2009
Messages
3,249
Trophies
2
XP
5,095
Country
Basically, I need to port my ‘landline’ phone number to a dedicated VOIP provider because BT is forcing me to use their router and some internet packages I’m looking at don’t even offer a phone.

Does anyone have a recommended VOIP provider in the UK which offers unlimited minutes?

I know this may seem archaic these days, but unfortunately others in the house want a ‘landline’ phone.

Thanks.
 

FAST6191

Techromancer
Editorial Team
Joined
Nov 21, 2005
Messages
36,381
Trophies
3
XP
27,371
Country
United Kingdom
Are there no landline style options these days you can shove a SIM in, or maybe even a little box you can dummy out to a landline style phone with said same? There are a few for fallback options and mobile phone companies hate them for reasons I have never quite figured out (I can understand the landline bridge stuff but the other way around seems strange).

Don't know what I am suggesting for private VOIP these days, and it is generally super rare in the UK (give or take most phone companies being VOIP companies but different discussion there) for domestic setups. Most things I do on that front are complicated setups for companies that care more about a good setup (multiple lines, being able to speak to a robot despite being a local restaurant, times in which you can forward onto the boss, dial in answer phone and such fun) than the baseline cost.

Also are you really tied to unlimited minutes? So many claim to want that but reality says otherwise, even more so if you put your foot down, get phones from everybody and install a decent text/video/audio chat program such that everybody can go every which way and have group chat (anybody need something from the shop type deal). There is also the unlimited minutes but does not include mobile phone problem.

I imagine you would have mentioned if you were particularly wedded to a number but it is something to consider in this.

Do also check if you are doing the granny still has an "I am surprised this is not a rotary phone" routine if said 80s phone is pulse dialling or tone dialling. Many won't support pulse dialling. You may also want to grab some RJ45 cables as some of these adapters might not support the BT style phone connector.
 
General chit-chat
Help Users
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Hello peoples. :D
  • AncientBoi @ AncientBoi:
    Stop it you guys. I'm tryin ta sleep here :angry::sleep:
    +1
  • dygeo @ dygeo:
    why am i still level 1
  • OilFreak @ OilFreak:
    bc u smell like fish
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    And your mother smells of elderberries!
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Not sure what that means but Monty Python was funny lol
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @OilFreak, You smell of oil.
    +1
  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    I smell of coffee.
  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    ('Murica)
  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    We need more progressive fireballs like AOC in politics, she handled that heckler like a champ.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Yeah I was hoping she'd go full on WWE cause I'm that violent
  • FAST6191 @ FAST6191:
    Fireballs are fun but I prefer competence and skill
  • FAST6191 @ FAST6191:
    if we can have economic literacy, decency and respect for rights then so much the better but that is asking too much.
  • Xzi @ Xzi:
    Even if AOC had gone straight from being a bartender to running for president, she would've been preferable to the last two guys we elected
  • Sonic Angel Knight @ Sonic Angel Knight:
    Is saturday Spaghetti night? :P
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Jayro, Happy birthday! :hrth:
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    And the rich get richer lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Selling my house have an inheritance coming, new job that pays like 100K a year lol
    Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo: Selling my house have an inheritance coming, new job that pays like 100K a year lol