I've been trying to figure this out on my own but I keep on coming up with the same things, I'm hoping someone will give me some other options...
Basically the deal is I need to find the cheapest way to make regular international calls from the US to the UK. I've already looked into the usual options, Skype, long distance plan on my phone, etc but all are coming up a bit more expensive than I'd like. It would be one thing is this were an occasional thing but I imagine a good amount more of these calls will be made more frequently in the future.
Unfortunately my restrictions are phone only, the internet on the recipients end is dodgy (uni network) so things like Skype don't work properly or are extremely throttled. I would imagine iChat to iChat audio would be the same although its not been tested. There's a landline there (0870 number) and she has a mobile but that's it. According to SkypeOut's rates its cheaper to call the landline than a mobile anyway.
At the current rate for calling to an 0870 number it costs me about $10/hour and that number will undoubtedly skyrocket in the future so I'm going to have to come up with more money than I really want to spend on this or we're just not going to have to talk as much.
Is there anything else I can be using? A long distance plan on my current carrier (mobile only, I'm without landline) it would be slightly more expensive than Skype, what about a calling card or would that make any difference...
Also curious what options are on her end, I don't know how calls in the UK work and I have a virtual London SkypeIn number that can be used but I don't know how much it would charge her to call that as well as other things that we could be using.
Thanx,
-Ani
Basically the deal is I need to find the cheapest way to make regular international calls from the US to the UK. I've already looked into the usual options, Skype, long distance plan on my phone, etc but all are coming up a bit more expensive than I'd like. It would be one thing is this were an occasional thing but I imagine a good amount more of these calls will be made more frequently in the future.
Unfortunately my restrictions are phone only, the internet on the recipients end is dodgy (uni network) so things like Skype don't work properly or are extremely throttled. I would imagine iChat to iChat audio would be the same although its not been tested. There's a landline there (0870 number) and she has a mobile but that's it. According to SkypeOut's rates its cheaper to call the landline than a mobile anyway.
At the current rate for calling to an 0870 number it costs me about $10/hour and that number will undoubtedly skyrocket in the future so I'm going to have to come up with more money than I really want to spend on this or we're just not going to have to talk as much.
Is there anything else I can be using? A long distance plan on my current carrier (mobile only, I'm without landline) it would be slightly more expensive than Skype, what about a calling card or would that make any difference...
Also curious what options are on her end, I don't know how calls in the UK work and I have a virtual London SkypeIn number that can be used but I don't know how much it would charge her to call that as well as other things that we could be using.
Thanx,
-Ani
That one did the trick, bought a $20 one yesterday. Thanks.