VOIP ??? any Reviews ??

[Farma Parma]

SIPGATE bloody brilliant VOIP from them...

 

[Courier]

SIPGATE bloody brilliant VOIP from them...

It's all good whilst the broadband is good, but with a landline Openreach has a mandatory obligation to fix and problem in a matter of hours, 7 days a week. With broadband the obligation changes from "hours" to "weeks" and many of the smaller organisations only take calls mon -fri office hours.
Probably not so important for mainly outgoing calls now mobiles are widely used but our office relies on incoming calls through 5 lines. I know it could save us a few bob every day, but if one of our major customers has to look elsewhere for an emergency job I don't want them looking for and finding another supplier.

 

[Farma Parma]

It's all good whilst the broadband is good, but with a landline Openreach has a mandatory obligation to fix and problem in a matter of hours, 7 days a week. With broadband the obligation changes from "hours" to "weeks" and many of the smaller organisations only take calls mon -fri office hours.
Probably not so important for mainly outgoing calls now mobiles are widely used but our office relies on incoming calls through 5 lines. I know it could save us a few bob every day, but if one of our major customers has to look elsewhere for an emergency job I don't want them looking for and finding another supplier.

I get what your saying but sofar unless the BB go's off & thats rare.. all fine here.
The quailty of the very old parts of BT's line to this FARM means issues more than once a year.
We have 4G on all Mobile networks here now aswell so that pretty much makes Landlines a complete waste of time esp via copper wire from a bunch of Telco's that dont give too hoots aslong as your paying them silly money for line rental etc thats just a big con.
Like ive said before if & when BT pulls there finger out & runs a TRUE FIBRE link here & not at my expense i'll consider moving back
but i cant see that happening as it will all stay wireless here for the future.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I agree the 4G service from EE I've had here has been pretty much faultless in 3 years.

It's way, way more reliable and a far better performing service than the BT landline which was simply hopeless - both in repair times from Openreach fixing the line fsults (and f**king it up good and proper by cross wiring all the numbers/lines from the last DP, a shower of shite would be a polite description), not to mention actual copper pair performance from the exchange 5 cable miles away - pure sh!t.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

VoIP is the future (but it might not be ready just yet) An associate who specialises in VoIP (Voice over internet Protocol) will not sell the service to any business unless it has 2 independent broadband services.

That's actually not that hard. Get your IT provider to set you up with a decent router with fallback or failover to two or more comms providers. The router I've got here has 2 independent 4G compatible radios, each of those radios has 2 SIM card slots, it's also got another Ethernet WAN interface - so in theory I could be simultaneously connected up to all 4 mobile networks and another landline network of my choice all from the one box.

Any of those connections is easily good enough for VoIP with a dozen or more simultaneous "lines" and each VoIP line (called a SIP trunk) can have multiple simultaneous and independent calls on it. It truly is they way voice is delivered to companies these days.