On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 18:58:40 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > Here (Spain) rates for mobile phone calls are still very expensive. > There are some bonuses for free calling when you sign-up for some offers > but I find that options very limited and restrictive (calls must have > place between X and Y hour of the day, cannot last more that Z minutes, > they don't apply when you call to the competing carrier...). A complete > and inconvenient mess.
The telecoms industry here in the UK has a similar intricate and confusing way of presenting its offers. Nowadays broadband is part of the equation and they hope to tie you into them for everything. You need to be very well informed to discern a good deal. But the PSTN can be cheap: http://www.call18866.com Note: 5p per UK call. 0p per minute. You may be familiar with the company which runs it! > Spanish telecommunications market is (still!) a "game" that takes place > between 3 main carriers in mobile telephony (Telefonica, Vodafone and > Orange) but Telefonica is the "king of the hill" when it comes to land > line. Having a daughter who has lived and worked in Madrid for a long time the apparent lack of real choice was an incentive for me to set up a direct SIP link between us. > This has to change when ENUM numbers become a reality and all the SIP > traffic is transparently routed regardless of the network. I'd like to think so too, but I'm not as optimistic as you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613213326.GH19572@desktop
