New rates for NuFone
It looks like NuFone has finally listed their rates on their website. I’ve been happy with their services, but getting information out of them has been like pulling teeth.
On the plus side, their US rates have dropped from $0.0295/minute to $0.0200/minute. That’s $1.20/hour. My monthly long-distance bill has dropped off to almost nothing since I started using VoIP.
Just out of curiosity, I ran a quick search to see which countries I could call for under $0.05/minute. This doesn’t mean that all numbers are cheap (calls to mobile phones tend to cost extra), but that at least one part of the country (the capital city, if no where else) has cheap telephone access:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, US, United Kingdom
In other words, I can call pretty much every industrialized country in the world via VoIP for less then my ILEC charges me to call numbers 10 miles away.
>>In other words, I can call pretty much every industrialized country in the world via VoIP for less then my ILEC charges me to call numbers 10 miles away.<<
But you’ll have to deal with dropped calls. ;)
Shrug. 90% of the problems that I’ve had with my VoIP setup are caused by the 802.11b link between my main phone and my Asterisk server. Every now and then, one of my neighbors blasts the neighborhood with noise, and the effective range of my wireless network drops down to 5 feet or so (really–I’ve been in the same room as the access point and still had no signal). That causes problems for VoIP :-).
I haven’t seen any problems with NuFone dropping calls, though.
It seems they don’t have any international calling available any more (except Canada – does that count?).
I suspect that you need to talk to them before you can do international long distance. See my VoIP fraud article from a couple months back for the reason.