Comments on: Mobile Skype http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/ June 2000 to June 2010 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tony http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/comment-page-1/#comment-35756 Tony Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:37:01 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/#comment-35756 I thought it was a free service more or less, until I bought an unbundled 'phone...demo...NetComm "reduced" to $120.00 from an Office works store. Then came the modem...no cheaper. Then came the Pennytel set up..a nightmare of incompetence keeping me off the air and tearing my hair out for nearly a month. Mobiles are supposed to be 12c unlimited...one has a $7plus bill on my a/c. Places like Norfolk Island and Vanuatu are a nigghtmare...I had just recharged and rang Norfolk..wham bam...there went $35!! On the other hand the permitted countries at 8c unlimited are a great idea...except for increasing drop out rates..causing recalls and ..of course..more money. The intrusive chatter sometimes is from Optus which perhaps explains the incompetence of disconnections. All in all I hope to recover the outlays in 12 months..particularly on countrywide calls. I wouldn't have a headset if you paid me..they are such a pain and my Net comm has a hands free facility....and net comm upgrades modems etc at reduced rates....so all in all I am happy. I still have to pay telstra its "maintenance costs" of about $30/month and paying about $50 a month for onthenet server but none of it is magic. The greatest rip off of all is Vodaphone's costs on my mobile...what a billionnaire creator this industry has been for sellers...why are they so expensive when the technology and processing is no different from a Voip phone?..and why do phone owners pay same as people on plans which provide phones? Cheers Cheers I thought it was a free service more or less, until I bought an unbundled ‘phone…demo…NetComm “reduced” to $120.00 from an Office works store.

Then came the modem…no cheaper. Then came the Pennytel set up..a nightmare of incompetence keeping me off the air and tearing my hair out for nearly a month.

Mobiles are supposed to be 12c unlimited…one has a $7plus bill on my a/c. Places like Norfolk Island and Vanuatu are a nigghtmare…I had just recharged and rang Norfolk..wham bam…there went $35!!

On the other hand the permitted countries at 8c unlimited are a great idea…except for increasing drop out rates..causing recalls and ..of course..more money.

The intrusive chatter sometimes is from Optus which perhaps explains the incompetence of disconnections.

All in all I hope to recover the outlays in 12 months..particularly on countrywide calls. I wouldn’t have a headset if you paid me..they are such a pain and my Net comm has a hands free facility….and net comm upgrades modems etc at reduced rates….so all in all I am happy. I still have to pay telstra its “maintenance costs” of about $30/month and paying about $50 a month for onthenet server but none of it is magic. The greatest rip off of all is Vodaphone’s costs on my mobile…what a billionnaire creator this industry has been for sellers…why are they so expensive when the technology and processing is no different from a Voip phone?..and why do phone owners pay same as people on plans which provide phones? Cheers

Cheers

]]> By: michael http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/comment-page-1/#comment-34389 michael Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:53:28 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/#comment-34389 Thanks for the review straight to the point. Its very forward thinking of 3 but why dont they jump in all the way and open a subscription for skype in/out now. Go the full monty 3mobile ! Thanks for the review straight to the point. Its very forward thinking of 3 but why dont they jump in all the way and open a subscription for skype in/out now. Go the full monty 3mobile !

]]> By: Jez http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/comment-page-1/#comment-21667 Jez Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:51:27 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/#comment-21667 Nothing, and lots of it. Nothing, and lots of it.

]]> By: Rol http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/comment-page-1/#comment-21660 Rol Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:18:46 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2007/11/mobile_skype/#comment-21660 Who talks for 200 minutes a month? I struggle to fill 20, and I don't just mean on the phone. What does everybody have to SAY? Who talks for 200 minutes a month?

I struggle to fill 20, and I don’t just mean on the phone.

What does everybody have to SAY?

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